Internship Goodness

Last week was another new one. We had our first day at our internships on Wednesday and our second day on Friday. I am interning with East Liberty Development Inc. (ELDI) on the east side. East Liberty does a lot of bricks and morter type development for their community. I have two supervisors, Emily and Nate. Both of them are really relaxed and care a lot about what they do. The other neat part is that they are just a few years older than me.

Right now my biggest responsibility is to finish up whatever their old intern, David, didn't. So my biggest task is to continue the cigarette butt campaign that he started. This includes getting people to agree to empty cigarette butt recepticles near their businesses. I also need to install the cigarette butt dispensers and do a couple scans after they are installed to see how many butts were not put in the recepticle. I am also doing some normal intern stuff like getting a bunch of addresses for mailing out the annual reports.

So far I am feeling very optimistic about the internship. I am excited to get involved in what East Liberty is doing in their community, as it is very visible via the buildings and projects they have already completed. They also have a lot of exciting plans for the future, and ELDI is in a very exciting growth period.

-Emily