Experience Matters - Grand Valley State University

Wandering

Spencer
Major: International Relations Much of my tasks in the after school program was to help students learn and grow as individuals, teaching them values that will help to empower themselves for future aspirations.

Building Bridges

Dominique
Major: International Relations I worked directly with refugee students, as a tutor, I also provided transportation. I performed research about refugee resettlement, and problems with the refugee population in the United States and in Grand Rapids. Helped organize resources for the students, such as computer software, and book cataloging.

1st Internship

Paul
Major: International Relations Supporting refugee children to gain the necessary skills for integration into the community through providing comprehensive educational support, along with fostering cultural knowledge and understanding.

Teaching English language abroad

Christopher
Major: International Relations Lesson planning Teaching aids Building Professor client relations Teaching methods Lesson implementation Tracking student progress Testing Grading students

City of Muskegon Police

Michael
Major: Criminal Justice As an intern with the City of Muskegon Police, I was a supervisor of a first year city wide project called the fight against blight I also did ride-alongs as well. This project was a big part of my internship and was important to the captains and chief to help clean up the city. It was so big that at the end of my internship I was awarded a plaque by the chief for my outstanding efforts on the fight against blight project as well as the Muskegon Chronicle came and wrote a newspaper article on the fight against blight project and what all was accomplished. Underneath I have added what my day was like daily while I was doing the project as well as a link to the newspaper article. Project Summary: The fight against blight project was a collaborative effort between the Muskegon Police Department Neighborhood Policing Unit, Michigan Department of Corrections, and the City of Muskegon Department of Public Works to eliminate blight in the City of Muskegon. The project was organized and coordinated by Neighborhood Policing Unit Officer, Rob Woods and Grand Valley State University Intern, Michael Rankin. The Michigan Department of Corrections, Parole Agent Sean Wiltenburg provided workers who were all on a probation status, and had court ordered community service hours to perform. The Superintendent of Public Works Doug Sayles provided all the equipment needed for the project. Over 500 properties were inspected throughout the City of Muskegon by the Neighborhood Policing Unit. The majority of those properties are city-owned properties, with a few belonging to the County of Muskegon, and the State Michigan. Each property on the list was assigned a number ranking from one to five. The properties in the most desperate need of clean up were assigned a number ranking of one, and those in no need of cleanup were assigned a ranking of five. Each day of the cleanup a site was chosen in a city neighborhood. The Neighborhood Policing Unit Officer of that neighborhood would then assist the intern for the day with carrying out the clean up. This would include, transporting the intern to the Department of Public Works to meet with Doug Sayles, to retrieve a dump truck and tools, contacting Agent Wiltenburg to tell him which location to bring the probationers to meet at to start the day, following the intern to and from clean up sites and dump sites, returning the equipment back to the Department of Public Works, and documenting all clean up efforts. After arriving at the cleanup site photos of the property were taken and the condition of the property was documented. The probationers would clean up the properties for community service hours. The probationers were asked to separate the tires, trash and brush, so that they could be disposed at the end of the day. The tires were placed in the tire trailer for disposal, the brush and yard waste was dumped at the landfill. The trash was deposited into a dumpster at the Department of Public Works. Each day of the project photos were taken of before and after the clean up to document all progress. The photos were then uploaded by a City of Muskegon Police Supervisor and placed with that days report. In conclusion, this program is a wonderful benefit to the City and its residents. Several lots within the City were cleaned up, improving the City's image, and the way residents feel about the surroundings they are living in. It is our opinion this program could be used as a model for future programs to rid the City of Muskegon of blight! Newspaper Article Link: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2014/07/blight_fight_muskegon_police_h.html

Kent County Sheriff's Department Internship

Tyler
Major: Criminal Justice As an Intern, I was assigned to various shifts with various departments to perform an observation of those departments. The departments I observed were the road patrol unit, the correctional facility, detective bureau, and dispatch. During each shift I would be assigned to a deputy to observe. At the end of each shift I would complete an observation log. On road patrol shifts I would also completely a daily log of what took place during that shift.

Hands-on

Samantha
Major: Legal Studies I received a lot of hands-on experience with interviewing clients, going to jail, going to trial, completing jury surveys, helping the attorneys, filing, helping with pretrials, and more.

William C. Abney Academy Reading Intervention Internship

Faith
Major: Integrative Studies I worked with students that struggled with reading. I also assisted with organizing Reading Programs.

Todd's Services

Austin
Major: Integrative Studies I was working very close with the office manager creating marketing plans and getting ready for the upcoming. It was involving a lot of looking at past years marketing and how each source led to job sold.

Community Affairs WOODTV8

Alesha
Major: Integrative Studies worked in every department, primarily in community affairs, but not limited to 8 West,connecting with the community. As well as writing multiple web stories and going on video shoots, also public service announcements, transcribing and assembling other stories.

Interning at the Fulton Street Farmers Market

Shelby
Major: Anthropology I helped out the market by working the credit card machine and handing tokens out to patrons (to be used as cash in the market). I also contributed by taking photographs, updating the Facebook page and website with bits of information relevant to the farmers market and its products, helping patrons throughout the market, building relations with venders, and studying customer traffic throughout the day.

Political Consulting Internship

Rachel
Major: Advertising & Public Relations As an intern, I worked with the Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley's reelection. I provided mostly administrative services such as data entry and event scheduling. Additionally, I contributed to volunteer coordination at the Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island in September and worked to maintain contact with those volunteers in the months after the conference in an effort to recruit precinct delegates.

ATNMC

Leah
Major: Advertising & Public Relations Throughout the internship, I was required to create and maintain relationships with local store owners in the greater Grand Rapids area. I developed relationships with business owners who could potentially sell ATNMC clothing in their stores.

2020 Social Media Internship

Kristen
Major: Advertising & Public Relations I was in charge of the Twitter account as well as the email account. I sent out original material, retweeted things sent into us by students and other organizations, and replied to people who would tweet questions or concerns at us. The email account is mostly for students to email their questions, so I answered all emails associated with the 2020 address.

The Black Sheep Experience

Maya
Major: Advertising & Public Relations As an Ad Sales Manager, I had the responsibility of finding clients that would like to advertise in either our print, online, mobile, or guerrilla marketing media. It was important to work with clients to ensure that their marketing campaign will target college students. Other tasks included communicating with other Black Sheep colleagues, work with the management team, and develop ad designs.

Changing Lives One Puppy at a Time

Brittany
Major: Advertising & Public Relations While at Paws, I worked directly with the development team on monthly newsletters and e-newsletters, website material, all social media platforms, and, of course, puppy play time! Alone, I created a campaign for Instagram which is now being used, and I also had the opportunity to do a photo shoot for the current billboard campaign in West Michigan.

Experience in The Work Place

Nicole
Major: Advertising & Public Relations Created and ran an AdWords campaign for ten weeks, made regular and necessary corrections and improvement to the company website. I also did a lot of a research on the target audience and the different channels of communication to them. I developed promotional materials for the company and

Perrin Internship

Connor
Major: Advertising & Public Relations Create News release Discuss potential advertising tactics Maintain the company Instagram Assisted in the promotion and running of Grand Rapids beer week events and Winter Beer Festival Assisted in brewery when help was needed.

Junior Executive

Curtis
Major: Advertising & Public Relations I was in the Creative Dept. I was given creative briefs from real clients then came together with the creative director and other interns and created video spots, radio spots, billboards and posters and many other creative things. Use lots of Illustrator and Photoshop.

Marketing/PR Internship

Abigail
Major: Advertising & Public Relations I worked with the marketing department for the school and added some public relations aspects to their programs.

Strategic National Internship

Rachel
Major: Advertising & Public Relations I worked on the Lt. Gov. Brian Calley's reelection campaign, specifically in the area of precinct delegate recruitment. Since in Michigan the lt. gov. is elected by delegates at state convention, the recruitment of these individuals is extremely important. My tasks and projects included volunteer coordinating more than 2,000 volunteers at the Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island, gathering endorsements for the candidate, organizing and monitoring Calley's social media and incoming email, contributing to the scheduling of campaign stops, and more.

A Great Place to Intern

Lauren
Major: Advertising & Public Relations While participating in this internship I assisted on commercial shoots, specifically with the set-up of equipment such as lighting, cameras, set design, etc. I also edited footage for promo packages that were aired on the station. In addition, I also wrote scripts for commercials and illustrated a logo.

The Journey Begins

Kelly
Major: Multimedia Journalism During the course of my internship, I assisted the producer for the West Michigan Live show, and then worked in the newsroom for the other part of my shift. For the morning show, I would help with pre and post production by finding statistics and other stories that would help to prep Neal Dionne (host for the show), and after the show I would update the website with the podcast and blog. In regards to the newsroom, I would interview subjects for news stories, write the stories, and edit the audio.

The Kirsten Haglund Foundation

Mollie
Major: Multimedia Journalism Job Description As an intern for the Kirsten Haglund Foundation I had multiple responsibilities. My title was the social media and events intern. I was responsible for creating press releases and sending the press releases out to multiple news sources. I would then follow up with these news organizations in an effort to get Kirsten Haglund, founder of the organization, in the media to promote various events that we would be putting on. I was also responsible for creating event advertisements through constant contacts. As an intern I would go to every event and help put the event on by helping set up at the event and by helping with multiple activities during the event. Promoting the Kirsten Haglund Foundation through social media was another very important job that I had. I was responsible for promoting various events and articles through multiple social media sources. As an intern for this foundation I had many job responsibilities that took a fair amount of my time to meet.

Production Internship

Antonio
Major: Multimedia Journalism Assisted camera operators, learned how to work teleprompter, learned how to properly cue talent, etc.