Another great week working at flow! This week began with a team meeting about an upcoming festival. ArborFest is in late August and is an opportunity for local community residents to be more interactive with environmental groups and learn more about safe practices. After this, we had a group lunch at Northstar! It was great to hear more about everyone’s thoughts and current projects as well as how they came to work at flow .

On Tuesday, I did my first News interview. Last week I contacted many local new sources in order to spread the word about flows tree giveaway. I got a couple emails back that asked me to meet with them in order to explain the opportunity more. I met Clintonville spotlight on Tuesday and had my first over the phone interview. I was pretty nervous, but I think it went relatively well for the first time doing this and definitely showed me how to be prepared for something like this. I had another one on Friday and I think this one went a little more smoothly, but I am looking forward to seeing what both sources write.

On Friday, I attended a local community event called the Go Green event hosted by Columbus parks and rec. My coworker Maggie and I set up an activity for all the kids in attendance, which was planting sunflower seeds. For a couple hours different groups of children from summer camps and activities came over and we were able to meet so many children and spread the word to them about what we do. This was a highlight of my week and I really enjoyed working with local kids and seeing them be so excited about the environment.

Sad to be leaving FLOW so soon, but I’m still looking forward to the next few weeks!