Today the supervisor gave me the tasks she wants me to complete by the end of the placements and it cannot be better!
I know this is one of the more difficult and stressfull task interns can have for living with students from Waterloo who have to be on internships every other semester. You have a general idea about why you are at this placement, you know it somehow fits into your study plan but you actually don't know how to make yourself useful and even if the people at your placement really have anything for you to do!
Your mileage my vary a bit but fitting in is for sure a challenge for me.
But not this time! When choosing Sci-Bono Discovery Centre as my destination I had an idea about which one of my skills could be useful there and I went through the process based on that...
This skill was however a bit vague: the scientific knowledge that I accumulated while studying in Canada might be of interest to understand and explain exhibits in a science centre...
My first assignement at Sci-Bono was loosely based on that in the sense that I had to help introduce more academic knowledge in the presentation of the exhibits to young pupils.
I went on and devise a little manual for one of the floors here.
It turned out the people at the centre liked it so much that I now have to make little scientific manuals for most of the exhibits at the centre and that what I'll be doing for the remainder of the placement!
It couldn't have been better work-wise and it is so nice to have something useful to offer.
The condition here in South Africa is that science is somehow weak even with demonstrators so it is actually a big help to understand scientifically what is going on in a physics show and feed this knowledge back to the demonstrators.
There it is, I have my purpose and I couldn't be happier :D
Have a nice day and a nice continuation wherever you are reading this from!
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Nice work Yverick! You played it well. Getting yourself settled, developing an understanding of what SciBono is about, figuring out what their needs are and where your skills can contribute. Beautifully done. I wish you the very best in completing your tasks.
ReplyDeleteSounds great! You've really situated yourself well in the organization. From having conversations with other interns I can tell you this is something many are not able to do until the last few weeks!! Post one of your brochures, I'd love to see it :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Miss Jay! I guess I'm in the right place at the right time nothing more.
ReplyDeleteAs for posting work here I don't think I am allowed to do that because it belongs to the centre.
thanks again for your nice comment!