Technology Instructor/Leadership Organizer | YMCA Youth Institute | Long Beach, CA | I facilitated youth through academic/career achievement activities, utilization of film and magazine Adobe Suite technology, and team-building exercises: Serve as a facilitator on large group projects involving leadership building, film and graphic design skills. -Develop new technology marketing skills. -Network with professionals. -Develop clear and concise written and oral communication language skills. -Display effective management skills. -Encourage others to be future leaders and develop their career paths. -Be a self-starter. -Promote ingenuity by fostering creativity by assisting and collaborating on graphic design and film projects. -Develop an understanding of entry-level business professions, such as marketing and management positions that I will be qualified for.

1. Internship reflection
By: Lily Stone

2. Agenda
Learning Objectives:
 Tasks, Strategies, Accomplishments
Experiences:
 Onsite and In-Class, Site Supervisor’s feedback
More insight: Informational Interviews
 Conclusion

3. Introduction
Technology Instructor/Leadership Organizer | YMCA
| Long Beach, CA |
Tasks are to facilitate youth through:
 Academic and career achievement development activities
 Utilization of Adobe Suite technology
( to create films and a magazine)
 Team-building exercises

4. Learning Objectives
Strategy=Accomplishment
1. Teamwork
 a. Facilitated leadership building projects
2. Graphic Design Media skills
 a. Developed new technology marketing skills
3. Collaborated with Non-profit organizations
 a. Networked with professionals

5. Evidence of Accomplishment
Developed written/oral communication skills
 a. Wrote journals and conducted phone discussions
 2. Strengthened technology skills
 b. Did self-evaluations
 a. Helped develop a graphic design and film work

6. Accomplishment
Management skills
 a. Served as a mentor/facilitator
 -Encouraged others to be future leaders
 -Discussed personal experiences
 -Assisted with future goal-setting
 -Promoted ingenuity

7. Most Exciting Learning Objective Experience
2. Be a self-starter
 a. Took initiative on tasks
 b. Foresaw what needed to be done
 c. Suggested new methods for effectiveness
1. Developed understanding of entry-level business professions
 a. Conducted 3-5 informational interviews

8. Challenging Experiences:
Addressed ethical dilemmas:
 Asked another supervisor / including sources at his site
 College counselor / offers PowerPoint on plagiarism
Proposed:
 Adding citations boosts ethics and college readiness skills
 My college writing course experience:
 Improper citations=1/2of class rewrite paper
Goal:
 Prepare youth for future success.

9. Challenging Experiences:
My staff/ supervisor disagreed with idea:
Reasoning:
 This is the way it was done before
 Too much work to add citations
 Only parents and funders receive it

10. Expectations Met? “Aha” moments
Gave me an opportunity to:
 Help me better understand the work world
 Learning is not about agreeing, disagreeing
 It’s about valuing multiple opinions.
 Found inner-strength to keep motivated
 Came up with a resolution and spearheaded citing 40 articles
- live within these learning opportunities

11. Site Supervisor’s Feedback
Met goals and exceeded expectations in:
 Written and Oral Communication skills
 Professionalism
 Take initiative and management skills
Goals:
 Continue to build deeper relationships with youth
 Continue to learn more advanced Adobe Suite programs

12. Informational Interview Insights
Keys to Success:
 Approach issues with growth and opportunity
 Honor learning as a team
 Create personal and professional support system
 Work well with different leadership styles

13. Informational Interview Insights
 Build trust, self-sufficiency, diversity training
 Create future mature, kind, responsible, decision-makers
 Life purpose and a mentor = succeed

14. Conclusion
 Learning Objectives
 Tasks, Strategies, Accomplishments
 Experiences: Onsite and In-Class
 Site Supervisor’s feedback
 More insight: Informational Interviews
 Conclusion

15. Thanks
 Any comments or questions?

16. Strategies to Achieve Learning
Objectives:
 . -Serve as a facilitator on large group projects involving leadership building, film, and graphic
design skills.
 -Develop new technology skills
 -Network with professionals
 -Develop clear and concise written and oral communication skills
 -Display effective management skills
 -Encourage others to be future leaders and develop their career paths
 -Be a self-starter
 -Promote ingenuity by fostering creativity by assisting and collaborating on graphic design and
 film projects
 -Develop an understanding of entry-level business professions, such as marketing and management
positions that I will be qualified for.

17. Exciting Experiences:
 Expressed innovation and interpersonal skills
 Contributed artistic skills I sketched a caricature during down time of one
youth, and then I had a whole line of youth wanting their picture done. There
is a sense of joy and sharing the picture with their friends made me feel
happy, since I can give them the spotlight and make them feel proud and
dignified. Later on a youth member shared his drawings with me stating that I
inspired him to draw his observations on the bus ride home. I was extremely
impressed with his level of observation given that he has never taken a formal
art class.