Describe your POL preparation process. What presentation tools are you planning to use? Are you relying on notes, a memorized talk, something else? How are you preparing for questions you might be asked? 

To prepare for my POL I just followed the example presentation and made it look nice. I made sure to put a lot of pictures so I can talk about them. I also made sure to use mostly bullet points to create a more engaging presentation. I'm not really preparing answers for questions I'm sure Ile be able to answer most questions they ask.​

    Post the highlights from your mentor interview and explain what makes these quotes meaningful to you.

1. "I find that a lot of people go to college for partying. So if you're going to college, just focus on classes and whatnot. Take, um, something that's going to give you value out of it. Uh, if it's business, make sure you actually figure out the business side. If it's math or whatever it, is you want to study, take full advantage of it. Don't just go for parting."

this quote is meaningful because he is telling his experience in college and how it's important to stay focused and not party too much.                 
    2.   Yeah, this kind of work, I don't. Think you need, ah, a specific career. I know there's a lot of people who are in outreach that don't have a degree or whatnot, but something that would help is management. Um, some degree in management. Uh, people skills are big. Um, yeah, I think those are the main big things. You got to like talking to people a lot, uh, especially if you're an outreach coordinator in my position, not anymore, because they deal with clients. But I did that for like three, four years too.

This quote is meaningful because he is telling us that his line of work doesn't necessarily require a specific degree, and to be successful you need to have good people skills.

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What is the name of your internship site? What does your site do?
​The name of the internship site is Grid Alternatives; they install free solar panels and batteries for people who qualify. 
Who is your mentor? What was it like meeting them?
My mentor's name is Stan, and he seems like a cool guy, and I am happy to have him as my mentor.
What will you be doing during your internship?
We haven't fully decided yet, but I will be doing a mix of office and work in the warehouse.
Any hopes and fears for internship?
I hope that I can more of an idea of what I want to do in the future. One fear that I have is that I won't have allot do you at the internship.

•    On Tuesday we uninstalled solar panels from a house that is re doing their roof. Some things I did were setting up the ladder and taking stuff down from the roof. This was fun because we were able to apply the things we learned, and the trainer Gonzalo did a good job of showing us what everything is and how to be safe on the site. On Wednesday we were able to go to the annual solar convention at the convention center. I didn't expect for it to have that many people and companies at the convention. We walked around and spoke to companies that have cool technology and got a bunch of free stuff from them. Every year there is a solar installation competition where two teams of 4 compete to see who can install a grid of solar panels faster and safer. This year GRID is competing, and we crushed our first opponent, and they will compete in the semifinals tomorrow. On Thursday we mostly spent the day in the office figuring the project. Then we went to Solar Con and watched the semifinals where we sadly lost. 

• Describe your internship project?
•  For my project, I plan on doing solar installations. Unfortunately, you need to be 18      years old to do work on the roof however a lot of the wiring and preparing happens on the ground. doing this I will gain some electrical skills and skills with power tools.
• How do you see your role developing at your internship?
• I think as I continue with the training, I will be able to help with more of the installations.  Also, I want to get more comfortable asking more questions with people around me.

           
           Some pictures below.

     On Wednesday I met some people in the office then I joined with the trainees, learned how to set up ladders. After that we learned how to cut wires. On Thursday I spent the whole day with the trainees installing a solar panel on the mock roof. On Friday we learned how to bend pipe and how to connect it to the breaker box.  Overall, this week was fun and I didn't expect to already do this much hands on work. 

• What type of work do you plan to do? What are your hopes for your project?
  

​         I plan on continuing with the training so that I can participate in more solar installs. My hopes for the project is that I can use the installs as my project.

           Some pictures below.