I shadowed Dr. Scott McClure at McClure Orthodontics at his office in Raleigh. I witnessed a few more patients get their braces on for the first time. Dr. McClure explained to me how orthodontics would be around for a very long time, as teeth aren’t going anywhere, and the at home Invisalign people are starting to purchase is actually damaging the consumers teeth.
Tag: STEM
Orthodontist Shadowing 5/26
I shadowed Dr. Scott McClure at McClure Orthodontics at his office in Garner. I witnessed a few more patients get their braces on for the first time. I also had the opportunity to witness how Dr. McClure deals with problems in real time, such as scheduling issues. I learned that although most of Dr. McClure’s knowledge is from his time in residency, a lot of what he knows is from experience.
Orthodontist Shadowing 5/25
I shadowed Dr. Scott McClure at McClure Orthodontics at his office in Raleigh. I had the opportunity to observe one patient get their braces on for the very first time, and Dr. McClure bounce around from patient to patient. I learned that many orthodontists have very limited prior knowledge when it comes to running a business, which is why Dr. McClure advised me to not start a practice right after residency.
UNC School of Dentistry Tour 5/24
I toured the UNC Adams School of Dentistry. I had the opportunity to practice my orthodontic skills on a fake mouth with some orthodontic instruments, which I was bad at. I also had the opportunity to observe a dental lab, where I observed how retainers and other 3D items in the dental world were created.
Orthodontist Shadowing 5/23
I shadowed Dr. Scott McClure at McClure Orthodontics at his office in Garner. I had the opportunity to observe two patients get their braces on for the very first time, and Dr. McClure bounce around from patient to patient. I learned that being an orthodontist requires top time management skills.
Lenovo
Today was filled with finishing projects and saying our final goodbyes but if the shoe fits I could have a potential paid internship at Lenovo in the future. This internship was definitely was a dream come true and I have learned so much above Lenovo, product management, and having a real job. As we close this chapter I’d like to thank CA and Lenovo for this opportunity. 
5/31
Today, after we worked on our presentation to the school and Mark, the CIO of Gilead Sciences, we did a dry run presentation to Mike, one of our mentors. He gave both me and Matthew a lot of helpful tips for our presentation. Not just things about the slideshow, but also about how we, as people, present. He pointed out some of the unconscious fidgets I do while presenting and how I can fix them, and gave Matthew some pointers on how he could improve his speaking. I think this was really helpful, not just for the presentation but also for going anywhere in the future. Here’s a photo of our whiteboarding process for creating the slideshow.
Day 7
Today was just another day of working on my model management project. I continued researching smaller software and model management platforms and started preparing for a presentation that I will give to my host and her team.
Day 6: Laber Labs
On our final day, Danny and Sasha came back to show us the levels we created on our first day in the game. We got the chance to play through them and give them feedback on what we liked and what we thought could be improved.
Afterwards, we finished the alternative stats quiz. We changed the spatula to be the “flirtatious spatula”, and we came up with around six questions that had David Blackwell as the correct answer and two with the spatula as correct.
I am extraordinarily thankful to Dr. Laber and everyone who came to teach us during the Work Experience Program for giving their time to help us grow and develop our interest in data science. Working at Laber Labs was incredibly rewarding and I was able to learn a lot throughout the program, and it furthered my decision to pursue a career in computer science in my post secondary education.
Lenovo
We’re all in this together as pride month begins. Today during one of our meetings we met with the person another Cary Academy group is working with as well as we struggled with camera issues again turning one of our calls into almost a girls call since the camera didn’t like zooming over to Mr. Lancia. Besides the calls today was filled with sharing as we went over my research and learning more about Lenovo trying to sell software on Amazon.