This week was my first week back in the office after the conclusion of the Summer Camp. I have had a very eye opening week. I got the opportunity to meet with a few important people in the Community in Schools office and one of the highlights was meeting with the Parent and Engagement Coordinator. When we first was introduced to each other, it was a brief time, but my focus on my internship is to do planning around Family and Engagement activities for Site Coordinators to be able to have documents and resources for when the school year begin. I finally had a meeting with the Specialist and the meeting went from being only 30 minutes to a little over two hours. This was by far the most informational and life changing meeting I have had in the past few months. We spoke a lot about the work that is done as a Parent Engagement Coordinator and the conversation sparked up topics around nonprofits, family history, the importance of education in young children and went on mini trails of real estate, healthcare, poetry, and much more. I learned a great deal from this conversation that I will be able to use in my last year of college as well as my future decisions that I make as it pertains to my career field. I want to thank Ms. Vernell for allowing the conversation to extend with no limitations.

For the past week and a half, I have been working on a mini project that I decided to start on my own. This entailed me to create a two page evaluation of the Summer Camp that we planned and implemented for the middle school students at CCA. The reason for this upbringing was because in the nonprofit spectrum, evaluation is a key component of the success of programming and the impact it has on the community. I believed that my input on some of the improvements of the summer camp would be helpful for future interns of CIS. I decided to to section the evaluation up three segments which were Planning, Program Quality, and Student to Adult Engagement. I learned a lot by just recounting the four weeks of the program and being able to list pros and cons and anything I feel may have been beneficial or will be beneficial to implement for next summer.