Blog 9: Lesson 1 Reflection

1. Positive statement

What I'm most proud of in my lesson one presentation is how I was very clear and spoke in a nice tone because it helped people get a better understanding of what I'm talking about during my presentation and helped keep my audience engaged.

2. Questions to Consider

The assessment I would give myself is a P, the reason why was because my volume was on point as well with my body language and eye contact.

3.  What worked for your lesson?

What worked for my lesson was it was engaging to the audience, I went with the flow no pauses or stutters, and my power point was on check with all the information I needed to present.

4. What I would have done differently to improve my presentation was I would try to pace myself try to slow down more and make sure I get on time instead of going under time.

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours. 

What I plan to do for my 30 hours I will be setting up an event for my organization and putting in a lot of time and effort to make a fundraising event to help raise money for my organization. The theme would a western theme with lots of western foods and a petting zoo for the children who attend the event. I will be trying to have certain booths trying to raise money for my organization; because a big part of having a non-profit organization especially when you have to feed a lot of animals you need to expand your organization and try to do fundraisers to be able to keep the organization up. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

 I will be showing my 30 hours of evidence is through pictures of the event and flyers of the event. 

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

What i will be doing to help explore my topic more into depth is realizing that it take a lot of hard work and dedication to become a wildlife rehabilitator because most rehabilitation's are non-profit and one of the duties as being a wildlife rehabiliator is that you need to be good at marketing and being able to help make funds for the organization. 

Mentorship Extra Blog Post

For my mentorship me and my organization had did a beach clean up two weeks ago on a Saturday at Laguna Beach. We had used two reusable bags one for trash and the other for recycling. We went out and picked up trash for hours. All we found was mostly plastics and cigarettes all over the sand. It was very heartbreaking to see this how people don't even care about helping out the environment and rather risk the lives of so many marine mammals. But by the end of the day we had picked up over 1,000 pieces of trash. Which isn't a huge difference but its good enough to start with. 

Blog 6 Second Interview Preparation

1. Who is you mentor and where do they work? 

My mentor is Gary Mitchell and he is the founder of the non-profit organization Planet Rehab. 

      

      2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

• What college did you attend to?
• What kind of activities or organizations were you a part of?
• What incident or an event in your life that made you want to work with animals?
• How did you started Planet Rehab?
• What events have you and your organization been a part of? 

Blog 5 - Mentorship and Research Reflection

1. Mentorship question: Describe your experience in how you found your mentorship?  If you haven't found one yet, describe your experience so far in the search of a mentor.

I found my mentorship through a friend of mine named Nick who had volunteered for my mentor for several years. I had contacted him before my sophomore year and started to begin myself to volunteer for him. Then I had developed it to be my mentorship for my senior project since I'm very familiar with the people who run it and since I've been volunteering there for about over two years now. 

2. Research question: What has been your most important article you have read so far and why?

The most important article I have read so far is the article "Wildlife Rehabilitators Do More Than People Realize" ; because it was very descriptive on the benefits of wildlife rehabilitates and it had gave me a more understanding on what else I can do as working in a wildlife rehabilitation facility.   

Mentorship at Planet Rehab

Ive been volunteering at Planet Rehab since freshmen year so it wasn't something new to me but something I grew up to learn by. But this summer for my mentorship I had participated in many things such has being able to interact with the animals such as buddy the goat who became my best friend even after the fact he has rammed me before. But what I was able to do this summer was not only be able to interact with them but was able to care for them as well with feeding and nurturing them. Another thing I had done during my mentorship was being able to participate in the La Verne fourth of july parade with my organization and had walked through the parade with some of our goats we care for and help make Planet Rehab be known. One thing you need to do when being a non-profit organization is that you need to make yourself known, so you can help get sponsors to help support your organization. Because without your sponsors how else would your organization survive.

Being part of such a great organization such as planet rehab leads you to many opportunities to explore your wild side. To be the solution to these animals lives was a great honor to me. Just to be able to interact with them and care for them during my mentorship was such a great adventure for me. I am glad to say that I will still continue to volunteer at Planet Rehab and hopefully be able to make my senior project be amazing.

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  Why?

I plan to interview Gary Mitchell who is the founder of the organization I volunteer at named Planet Rehab. The reason why I want to interview Gary Mitchell is because he is familiar with my topic  animal rehabilitation; since he dose own his own animal sanctuary. Also his organization is where I had done my senior mentorship at. 

2. You have to ask 5 questions.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?

1. What motivates you to be part of Planet Rehab? 
2. What had a huge impact on you to start your own animal sanctuary?
3. What factor would say is the key to start your own animal rehabilitation? 
4. What is one main struggle you deal with when it comes to Planet Rehab? 
5. What is the best advise you could give someone who is trying to pursue animal rehabilitation as a career choice?