Senior Proj. Update

Wow, there are so many things to think about this time of the year with the college applications, essays, sports, work, and every other activity we participate in that senior project just seems like another unwelcome burden. It seems hard to get going, but luckily I was able to move ahead with my project today. I met with Shirley Clauss, the ROP coordinator at the Napa Valley Office of Education today to talk about meshing our two projects--hers being the promotion of the ROP classes to students, and mine putting on a career fair--to mutually benefit each other and to help one another out. We agreed on a few ideas and hashed out a general plan of what we could do, which, as of right now, includes having the ROP classes team up with correlating professionals (Fire Science with Firefighters, Medical Science with Nurses) and present the classes and the career to students to get out information and let students get a feel on how the professions they are thinking about really are. After this, she agreed to becoming my mentor, and I unexpectedly proceeded to conduct the mentor interview right then, which was great because that deadline had been looming and drifting closer for some time. So I seem to be right on track with my progress, and although it is still somewhat of a burden, it is also fun and will force me to interact with professionals and get me out of my comfort zone. Now my next step besides typing up the spontaneous interview will be to go around and start talking to the different ROP class teachers, collaborating on ideas, and then also extend myself to the professionals who will be at the career fair in order to give them an ample amount of time before the planned feburary date.