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This afternoon I returned back to juvenile court for my last hours in Guilford County. I learned that defendants in the detention center under 18 are guaranteed a secured custody hearing every 10 days until they are released unless it is waived and their hearing become more spread out.
In court 1c I also saw an extradition case to Georgia. A government warrant is issued within 90 days to extradite a defendant to another state.
I also watched a police officer almost get issued a show cause due to failure to appear in court. The judge was not happy

Today I attended first appearances again to watch Ms. Anika Bailey do a bond motion for her client. She was able to make the bond for her client unsecured allowing him to be released later on today. A secured bond must be paid in order to secure release from prison where an in secured bond allows them to sign a document for release. Something very interesting is the role of a bondsman who most often require you to pay 10%of your bond an they cover the rest on the condition

that you put something up and you don’t miss any court dates. If you my don’t follow the rules, they can revoke the bond and the defendant returns to prisoners

As our journey reached a close, the rag-tag team of self-proclaimed heroes composed of Adam, Brian, Janay, Arjun and Caleb grew downtrodden . We had a resplendent expedition working with Mr. Self, and our end-of-WEP cumulative presentation caused us despair. We utilized our time this fine afternoon to present our findings regarding the relationship between customer acquisition costs and revenue as different variables such as training time, percent commission and customers per year are changed. The Bovine One was unable to successfully implement the program he spent so long on yesterday as he is unfamiliar with the coding language that he was writing in, so the logic of the program worked but it was not able to be administered. Despite this brief hiccup, the team was able to swiftly move along and present our findings over pizza that Mr. Self so graciously bought for us as we bonded as a group. This experience was incredibly enriching for all of us as we learned many different facets of the business behind any business. Thank you to Mr. Self for accommodating our shenanigans so aptly and we are very glad to have partaken in this WEP.

Today we worked on posting action cards. Not only is NC NOW an informative organization but their initiative is to also get women involved into government and help make an impact. We first discussed House Bill 453 and how lawmakers say it will prevent discrimination when in reality it impedes on women’s existing rights to get an abortion without question. We then created an action card so people can get involved and call their NC representatives and if they don’t know what to say they have a script that can guide them. These were posted on the NC NOW’s Instagram so be sure to give it a check out at… https://www.instagram.com/northcarolinanow/ 

On our first day, Ms. Paliga asked us if we had any suggestions for the NC NOW website. We were all pretty confused when we first looked at the website because it was not super easy to navigate and had a lot of ideas for how to make the site prettier. What started out as a few ideas eventually turned into us redesigning the whole website. Seeing the transformation was probably one of our favorite parts of this experience, so we wanted to share the before and after photos of the NC NOW site. You can also check out the website in more detail using this link: https://northcarolinanow.wordpress.com/

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On our last day at Integrated Pain Solutions, our plans to present our final projects changed due to the impending storm and our 1 hour 15 min trip back to Cary. Instead of presenting live, we decided to record our final project and share it with the office. Before we left, we gave Dr. Pandi and Dr. Taylor their CA water bottles which they both enjoyed. Then, we had our final drive back to Cary, marking our 20th hour of carpooling these past two weeks.

For our final day at Integrated Pain Solutions, we figured the best picture to describe our time here is the Green Level West Exit ramp. Not only was it the final exit before reaching our homes, it was also the place JR almost hit the snapping turtle on the first day to start off this adventure.

Over the past couple of days, Ms. Paliga has taught us the importance of Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina. Pat McCrory signed away the governor’s ability to expand Medicaid in 2013, so now the NC legislature has the control. However, there is reluctance in expanding. North Carolina Legislators don’t see the all-around win of expanding Medicaid. Not only does it increase coverage to more than 500,000 people in North Carolina. It funnels almost 1.2 billion dollars into the NC economy as it would decrease uncompensated care. From learning about Medicaid Expansion, we worked as a team to create several informative slides to post on Instagram about it.

Today was our final day of WEP, and we finished it off by presenting our presentation to Mr. Self at his actual workspace. It was very good to finally meet with him in person and show him all the work that we had done the past few weeks. He was able to use a lot of the information in our PowerPoint, and so it was a success. I think that the main thing I learned during these last 2 weeks was honing my researching skills and being able to make an intriguing presentation to an interested employer. Both are extremely valuable skills that I will certainly have to use in college and beyond, and I cannot think of a better way to have spent these last 2 weeks.