wep – Page 2 – CA Work Experience Program

Strategic Connections Work Day 2

Today I went to a work site in Durham. I got to help the workers and made sure everything with the project was going well. The project was to install lighting and televisions into office buildings. There were some problems though. A challenge that we ran into was that the wiring was not done properly so we had to redo all the wiring before putting in the lighting. After we overcame some challenges we made sure everything was on check and continued. Overall it was a good work day and I learned a lot. I learned that with work some things will go wrong and a solution is needed.

Day 1

Today I arrived at 8 for a larger meeting discussing current building progress and statistics of the market. It was pretty relaxed and calm for a meeting and everyone in the office was very welcoming to me. I was introduced to the closely-bonded team and got to work on some projects surrounding certain clients and the quarterly write-up that Tri-Properties creates. An especially great part of the day was working on a client-based project where I researched possible investments in the area following their ideals. I also liked the fish in my office room where I worked and my lunch that we walked to across the street. Can’t wait to do more projects tomorrow and get to better understand the different aspects of commercial real estate!

Here’s one of the fish in the room I was working in.

First Day Work Experience (Strategic Connections)

Today is my first day of work experience. I am working with a project manager. He is a commercial project manager. Today he showed me around the company, he showed me the warehouse and I did work with him. The warehouse was very big and I got to see how all the packages are placed in piles based on what the project is. He is working on a big project for ECU. He is working to replace the football jumbotron screen and put a newer and nicer one in. We also did some work in excel to make sure all the pricing for the products are in correctly. He is also working on a auditorium in Cape Fear. We might go view the site later in the week.

5/24: OpenSpace & The Vredefort Crater

I spent the morning and early afternoon of my first WEP day with North Carolina Museum of Natural Science’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Department crafting a project proposal for my mentor, Dr. Rachel Smith. This included working in OpenSpace, a program that attempts to catalog and visualize the entire known universe. OpenSpace is a NASA-funded project through the American Museum of Natural History I’ve been working with Dr. Smith on for several months, and today I used it to pull in data on the asteroid belt and various Earth craters to create a project proposal for the animated 3D-modeling of the impact of the Vredefort Crater in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The picture to the left is a screenshot of OpenSpace when I used it to look at the mountains to the west of Mono Lake in California.

Additionally, I looked at the Vredefort Crater in NASA worldview because it was a little faster to get distance measurements than in OpenSpace, and you can see that in the image the right

At the end of the day I had a zoom call with Dr. Smith to discuss the project proposal and make some tweaks to it, as well as make plans for the rest of the week and discuss when I might be able to come into the lab and work. I had a really great first day, and I’m super excited to continue my research over the next two weeks!