[sl] Intern Update!
Hey everyone, It's Mercury the intern here. A lot has been happening since that last time I posted a blog entry. In the past weeks, my focus has been on the UNICEF World Fit for Children building contest specifically, in which I played various roles. I helped residents who were interested to sign up for the mandatory workshops, directed them to the website on which to sign up, etc. Also, I made sure to follow up with all the applicants on a regular basis to make sure that they did attend the mandatory workshops. This put me in an especially interesting position, because I had the opportunity to answer questions that residents had about the Global Kids organization itself.
While these workshops took place and as we received more team applications, I started to subdivide land for all the different teams and allocated parcels to them. I also helped to answer questions the teams had during the building, and dealt with all land-related issues. Oh, and not to mention all the back end/internal stuff like putting together worksheets and other fun documents. In the end, the contest turned out great, and we were all satisfied with the result! Here are some of the pictures related to the World Fit For Children building contest:
I created this banner for the UNICEF Voices of Youth, whom took part in the judging of the contest.
This is an overhead view of the parcels I subdivided for each of the teams.
Another exciting event that took place in the past few weeks was when Professor Henry Jenkins of MIT visited the island to discuss the pedagogical potential of computer and video games.
This is a banner I made to welcome Henry to the island.
So, these are just some of the things I've been up to in past weeks. I'm looking forward to what is in store for the coming month, as it will be GK's 1 year anniversary. I'll keep you guys updated! ~ MM
