How did you make a meaningful contribution to your workplace?
The project I decided to do independently involved mapping out the buildings in the extensive facility that is SPAWAR. It seems that most of the employees at SPAWAR are still confused about where to find what buildings at SPAWAR, despite working there for years. Even though there are maps with building numbers on them, they aren't accurate. I found this out on my second day here. So I made a Google map that completely mapped out SPAWAR future interns, or even SPAWAR employees, will be able to use this dynamic map to locate buildings at SPAWAR.
How was your work as an intern meaningful to your education?
I feel that what SPAWAR did for me was it seriously helped me narrow down what it is I want to study out of High School. It made the idea of pursuing some sort of creative career a concrete goal in my head. I also got a bit of a taste of how working in a professional environment is like and that certainly did something for my education.
How did your project go from an idea or inspiration to a final product?
I think it's pretty interesting how I thought of my final project. On the very first day we were handed maps of SPAWAR to help us get around. Because I was going to be working with maps, my mentor asked me to map out some points in SPAWAR just to practice using Google Earth. However I immediately noticed that there where buildings missing on the paper map I was handed. A lot actually! So I asked my mentor for any other paper maps she might have. I got a few more that had more buildings on it, however it was blurry. So at that point I set out on the project of mapping out all of SPAWAR on Google Earth and saving it as a file that could be efficiently shared and used by everyone at SPAWAR.
The project I decided to do independently involved mapping out the buildings in the extensive facility that is SPAWAR. It seems that most of the employees at SPAWAR are still confused about where to find what buildings at SPAWAR, despite working there for years. Even though there are maps with building numbers on them, they aren't accurate. I found this out on my second day here. So I made a Google map that completely mapped out SPAWAR future interns, or even SPAWAR employees, will be able to use this dynamic map to locate buildings at SPAWAR.
How was your work as an intern meaningful to your education?
I feel that what SPAWAR did for me was it seriously helped me narrow down what it is I want to study out of High School. It made the idea of pursuing some sort of creative career a concrete goal in my head. I also got a bit of a taste of how working in a professional environment is like and that certainly did something for my education.
How did your project go from an idea or inspiration to a final product?
I think it's pretty interesting how I thought of my final project. On the very first day we were handed maps of SPAWAR to help us get around. Because I was going to be working with maps, my mentor asked me to map out some points in SPAWAR just to practice using Google Earth. However I immediately noticed that there where buildings missing on the paper map I was handed. A lot actually! So I asked my mentor for any other paper maps she might have. I got a few more that had more buildings on it, however it was blurry. So at that point I set out on the project of mapping out all of SPAWAR on Google Earth and saving it as a file that could be efficiently shared and used by everyone at SPAWAR.