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Allison Miller: Making an IMPACT
Indiana INTERNnet celebrated internship excellence on February 8, 2017, at the 11th Annual IMPACT Awards Luncheon. Though the event is over and the winners have been announced, we are continuing to celebrate the nomineesâ successes.
These are their stories.
Allison Miller is a graduate of Indiana State University with a bachelorâs degree in recreation and sport management. She completed an internship with WonderLab Museum. Â Â
Indiana INTERNnet: How did you become interested in pursuing your degree?
Allison Miller: I actually started out as an elementary education major with a concentration in special education when I first started college. At the time, I knew I wanted to work with children. However, as I got further along in the major, I realized that teaching just really wasn’t for me. So, I started taking outdoor and nonprofit courses, and feel in love with it. I decided to switch to a recreation and sport management …
Taking Control of the Internship Experience
This is a guest blog by Molly Zweig. She is an Indiana University student majoring in International Studies and Spanish and minoring in Marketing and Portuguese. She plans to graduate in 2015. This summer, she is the Marketing Intern at the WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology in Bloomington. She works to promote WonderLab in many ways through traditional communications and marketing and social media.
One of the biggest challenges interns face is determining what exactly weâll be doing at our internships. You get a job description, but itâs hard to know until the end of the first week on the job if youâll be truly contributing to the company or if youâll be making copies and coffee. However, whatever kind of internship you have, you always have control over your experience.
I am truly grateful for the wonderful work environment and my supervisor at the WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology …