Third Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
     I plan on interviewing one of the sergeants or one of the volunteers. The volunteers may have more experience but that's about it. But the sergeant are usually the head of the shelter so they have to have a lot more work experience than most at the shelter. 
2. Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? I have not called to schedule an interview but I am going to try and schedule one this weekend. 
3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ. What are some of the other ways shelters around the U.S. get animals adopted?
Why is this way effective? 
4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ 
     Do pet adopts get pet people to adopt animals quicker? 
     Are events any different than just adopting an animal at the shelter? 
Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ.
    How do you get so many animals adopted?
    Do you know any other techniques that may get animals adopted  

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
      I am doing my mentorship at the Baldwin Park animal shelter. 
2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?
       My contact is Jiame Ramos. He is an expert because he has been working at the shelter for years and the years before that he worked with animals as well.
3.   How many hours have you done during the school year? 
      I have done 49 hours.
4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours
      I usually help with dogs at the shelter since they do make up the majority of the shelter. Me and my mentor work pretty well but he can be a bit socially awkward. I plan on finishing my hours there at the shelter or maybe another shelter. 
         

Holiday Project Update

It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project? 
Over break I just did a little more research online. I wanted to do more mentorship time but I couldn't since I am out of the country.

What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned? One thing I did learned is most countries around the world do not care for homeless animals. There is only a few that do. For example Costa Rica was the first in Latin america to become a "No-Kill nation", they outlawed euthanasia as a form of animal in 2003. Costa Rica is one of the FOUR countries around the world that care for homeless animals. So ever since I got to colombia I have seen a homeless dog every single day. I have seen it in Mexico as well but it just goes to show that most do not care. I think most countries do not care is because they are third world countries.   

Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why? For my third interview I plan on interviewing someone that either volunteers or works at a "no-kill' shelter. 

Blog 11: Lesson 1 Reflection

1. what are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?
To be honest, I am not proud of the way I presented my lesson. I felt like I could have done a bit better. 
2. what assessment would give yourself on your lesson? Explain why earned this grade using your evidence from the component contract. 
The assessment I would give myself is an AP probably lower. The reason why I would give myself is grade because in the "professionalism" section it says that the presenter should have volume/enunciation and I feel that I did terrible on that part. 
3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson? How can you use that knowledge to give a better lesson 2. 
I felt like me lesson 1 was planned right but I did not really practice in front of people. So when I get a bit nervous and tend to just speak without knowing what I am saying. So it's not that my lesson plan wasn't planned right, it was more if the practicing with an audience. 

Blog 10: Interview 2 Reflection



ASPCA is an organization that helps all sorts of care centers
(my care center is one of them)

click here to listen to Interview 2

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)
I do my mentorship/volunteering at a animal care center. I am not shadowing as much. I usually work on my own but I do shadow the kennel officers at the care center. This mentorship/volunteer actually does help with a part of my research but not all. Most of the people at the care center are not really experts by doing research and schooling. They learn by experience. The reason they learn from experience, is because you can't really learn by just doing research. One is able to research all they like about a dog but it wouldn't be as useful as learning hands on.

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?   
      When I would volunteer we would spend a lot of time with the kennel officers. So I asked one of them to help me with my project. His name is Jaime Ramos, he is very kind and helpful when it comes to helping the volunteers.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person

  I actually got a bit more comfortable with my mentor when I did my interview. In person I don't really spend as much time as I would like because he has other things that he is busy with. But if I need help or if I want to know something I would go to him and ask.

ASPCA travels around Los Angeles to do things like free
spay and neutering dogs and cats                                     

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

 The thing that went well in this interview is that I got to know my mentor a bit more and I am a bit more comfortable with him. I think I'm not sure if he is completely comfortable as I am. I think so because I got to know more about his personal life and why he does the things he does.

Blog 9 - Advisory Prep 3

1. State whether or not you currently have a mentor, and what the status of your interview is with that person (I have completed the interview, I have scheduled the interview, I have not scheduled the interview, etc).
 I currently do not have a mentor because my previous mentor just disappeared with out letting me know. I'm not sure exactly where he went but hope the best for him. But I know who I plan on interviewing, I also think they might be my future mentor since I spend so much time working with them.   
                  2. At this point, your research is probably guiding your studies toward more specific areas within your topic.  Name the area or two you find most promising and explain your reasons. 
Actually I just started a new topic so I am not completely sure what I want to specifically research about right now. But I am sure that it will come soon.
   
3. What kinds of sources do you think will help you in the next month to gain more research depth?  Where will you go to get them? 
I feel like the library will provided helpful sources. Some books and maybe videos etc. I feel that books provide a different point of view, rather than articles. 

4. Write down a possible EQ.  Please don't worry about wording other than ensuring that it provides the option for multiple correct answers.  At this point, the senior team is most interested in understanding your thought process. What is significant to shelter care? 

Blog 8: Independent Component 1 Proposal

1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
      What I plan on doing is taking part in various pet adoptions that my shelter host. I don't only have to do it for my shelter I can also look for other pet adoptions that other shelters host. Pet adoptions can last for different amounts of time. For example, I am helping out in a pet adoption this Saturday and Sunday for about more than 15 hours. What I will be doing is help set up the adopt, help bring in the dog to the location of the event, provide information about the dogs, a bit of paper work, help maintain the area clean, and cleaning up. I'm sure I will be doing more than I listed because there is always something to do.

2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectations of showing 30 hours of evidence.
    What I can do to show that I did the 30 hours of service by one taking pictures. Another way I can show my evidence by getting flyers, papers, etc. I can also film videos of the events and I can edit them to make it sort of like a short film.

3. Explain how or what you will be doing to help you explore your topic in more depth.
     These pet adoptions I know for a fact show me how dogs react in a totally different environment. But I will also get to see more human to dog interaction and how it effects them. This will not only show me more about dog behavior, it shows me how shelters work during pet adoptions (like how do they get people to adopt dogs and cats?!).

4. Update your Senior Project log
    I will be updating my Senior Project log after every pet adoption I do. I will try to be as consistent as I can.