Internship 3

1. What skills would you like to develop at your site?

I would like to develop being more creative not just with making a website but with everything I do. Also one big thing is have good communication and finding the most effective ways to communicate with people.

2. What interests do you have regarding the work done at your site?

The work done at my site that interests me is the Facebook page, communicating with all the baseball players, making a HTH baseball website, and lastly a website for my mentors personal company.

3. What needs can you address (needs your mentor has, your company has, etc.) based on your skills and interests?

The needs that I will cover is a Facebook page for the baseball team, a website for the baseball team, and a website for my mentors personal company.

Internship 2

What have you actively done to start off on the right note?

I have helped out my mentor on what ever he needed. I have also worked hard the whole time in internship to show that I really want to work and help out the HTH sports program.

What have you actively done to create interesting opportunities for yourself?

Since I am doing a website for my project I go around in dreamweaver and photoshop and mess around with different ideas to see if another good idea appears. I also ask question for what I need to do to help my mentor out.

What have you actively done to advance the interests of your mentor and/or site?

My interests for sports has always been high. For me i would just have to have fun with my website making to make it the best of my ability so it can help out the baseball HTH sports program.

What can you do in the immediate future to improve yourself and your experience in the above areas?

I need to ask fewer questions and just do it. For me I ask a lot of questions which slows down what I am working on. I also need to be more creative to think of ideas to make a website look good.

Internship 1

Internship 1

Dress: The dress for my internship is very laid back when it comes to dress. I have to look professional looking with a collard shirt.

My Workspace: The workspace I am granted with is a small little office. I have a laptop to work on, my mentor sitting right next to me and a lot of papers.

My Work: For my work I started on making the High Tech High Storm Baseball webpage with some rough sketches of how the page would look like.

What struck you, Interesting experience: I think this picture falls under both what struck me and interesting experience. I think so because I have never set of a soccer field and I realized the work that goes into it. The soccer goal that you can see is 3 parts. The parts of the goal plugged in like a puzzle. Me and my mentor had to make sure that the cones were evenly on both sides and make sure that the goal was even with the other goal. It was interesting and stuck me because I play sports and I know what it takes to set up other sports but i did not know what it took for soccer. It also struck me what goes on for just setting up a simple game of middle school soccer.

Is money a problem to fund the various sport programs at the HTH?

How does the HTH sports program play as a role in the economy?

This morning I woke up at around 7:44 am. I hopped in the car around 8am and drove to school. after i dropped of my brother me and my mom got bagels and Jamba Juice. I got to school about 9am and was waiting until 9:30 to start my internship. In the beginning of internship me and my mentor (which is my baseball coach) talked about everything I was going to work on through out my internship. When we finished talking about what I am going to do for him i realized it will be a lot of work but should be rewarding in the end. I will be helping out with some of the HTH and HTM sports programs by setting them up and making a website for them. I think that this internship will be benefiting not just for me but for the sports programs in general.

Nature Writing

In Richard Preston’s book The Wild Trees he analyzes the concept of living on the outer limit of biology and on the edge of the possible. He expressed this through the characters Steve Skillet and Michael Taylor. Steve and Michael go on some adventures to find the world’s tallest tree by putting in time, effort, dedication, and near death experiences to find it.

The goal for Michael Taylor and Steve Skillet was to indeed find the world’s tallest tree no matter what they had to go through. Michael actually quit Humboldt State University to have more time to study and climb trees. After a while Michael realized that he needed to go back to college so he took a loan and decided to go back to college. But college was not going to stop Michael on what his dream truly was.

In climbing trees there is a lot of risks that they took every day to do what they love. One example from the book is that they said since your upper half of your body is heavier then your lower half your body will turn upside down in mid air. The shock from you hitting the ground crushes your skull and breaks the neck and destroys the brain and spinal cord of the base of the skull. Instant death. Mary Antoine one time climbing a tree almost died as she fell 40 feet out of a tree. One big risk that Steve Skillet took is that he lost his wife due to the love of trees. He wouldn’t spend enough time with her and she felt like they were not meant to be anymore.

With tree climbing and adventures Michael and Steve had explored and discovered. Fog Creek, Devil’s Creek, Tom McDonald Creek, Bond Creek, and Elam Creek, were some places that they explored through out tree climbing. When Steve went to field brook valley in front of him as the biggest red wood he has ever seen before. His heart was beating like mad, and he was fumbling with his instrument and all most crying. He started to measure the tall redwood’s top, but he couldn’t see the top. The tree ran out of sight. He had discovered the ultimate tree. Every time they climb a tree they create a name for it. For example one of the names they created for a tree was nameless.

Steve and Michael through out this book go on a lot of adventures discovering things that no one has found before. They went through a lot of obstacles between school, jobs, and regular life. They overcame these to do what they truly loved to do. Climb trees.

Wild Trees

1. Preston describes the wild trees as living "at the outer limit of biology, on the edge of the possible." Many of his characters seem to also live by this concept in their lives, near-deaths and through their discoveries. Analyze how this concept manifests itself in different aspects of the story (different aspects might include setting, characters, plot, etc.).

Outline

Motivation to climb the trees

-Find the worlds tallest tree

-What they love to do

Risks

-Stressful
-Story of falling of kevin hillery and the girl
-mom story of her falling out of the tree (the first anecdote in the book)

-Weather conditions

Addicting tree climbing and about trees

-mental effects climbing has

-friends make you want to still climb

-family or trees

-Steve lost his wife for trees

-taught him self how to use the 3d movement and the spider rope

-one tool that was made up to calculate the angles of the trees (around the beginning)

-create names for each redwood tree they see

Dedication (pg 202)
-michael quit college to focus on trees-bad idea goes back to college

Wild Trees

1. How did you react to the idea that even in the 21st century, there are still parts of California (and the world) that are completely undiscovered? What does this make you think & feel?

I think that it is uncalled for, and people should start discovering the parts of California and the rest of the world that has not been seen or found. There are complaints about how there is not enough oil, trees and water. So if people look to discover the parts that have not been found there could be more oil, trees, and what that we need. It makes me feel that people are not trying hard enough to solve problems environmental in the world.

3. Before people started exploring the tree canopies, many people assumed it was like a desert up there (barren of life). It turned out to more like a coral reef (teeming with biodiversity). Why were so many people so wrong? Why did they make the wrong assumption? What lessons should we learn from these discoveries?

People that do not climb trees or that have not been to the top of a tree does not understand how it is up there. They do not under stand the biodiversity that happens in side and through out the tree. People just make assumptions and just guess on what it is like for the trees. We should all learn and understand the discoveries that has happened.

Professional Exhibition

If you are having a professional organization exhibit your work:

1. Link to the San Diego Coastkeeper Wiki/Main Site

http://www.sdwatersheds.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/

2. Still have to find someone to get in touch with to talk about possible linking to our own media saves the beach.

Telephone	(619) 758-7743
Fax	(619) 224-4638
Email	info@sdcoastkeeper.org

3. Date: 12/11/09 Place: Possibly, most likely on the Coast Keeper site.

4. So far we have not contacted them at this point. But sometime later this week, we will either walk down to their NTC office, inquiring about possible web site sharing/linkage.