Veterans History Project Internship Spring '26

 Welcome Back! Since last week I have been done with my work, and truthfully have been prioritizing my other coursework because of it. This is when I find things to be a little difficult being a team lead. There is no one to tell you what to do when you've finished your work, and i've been busy keeping tabs and reviewing the folders the rest of the team has worked on. With the semester ending soon and our last events around the corner I am doing my final tasks like preparing a flash drive for a veteran coming to pick up his files from his interview before it moves into the final phase of closed captioning and ultimately archival with UCF and the Library of Congress. My next steps are getting together with the team to go over our plans for the internship showcase and then rehearsing out powerpoint to make sure the timing is correct. I am very grateful to have been given another opportunity to join this amazing team of interns. And I can't wait to see where i will be in the n...

 Welcome back!      This Wednesday has been quite productive. During the meeting today we were able to flesh out the semifinal plans for the VHP Story Day that will be taking place on the 18th of April at the Beardall Senior Center. I have also completed my plans for manning the scanning station for the event. While actually being able to archive transcripts and other documents is important the most important step in the process is making sure that you actually have full access to the documents obtained during the oral interview process.  My hope is that future organization and transcription efforts will be made easier and more streamline so that we can hope to achieve more archived folders over the course of these short semesters. Sometime before story day I will be meeting with the team to talk about our plans for the showcase. Our team is quite small with only three members but i'm hoping this allows the others to talk about what has been fulfilling for them ...

 Welcome back everyone! This week's meeting covered everyones updates. At this point in time I have been working with my fellow interns on their folders and providing  guidance where I have been able to. So far we are still waiting to send out the batch for my completed veteran folder. We will be physically handing him a copy at the Story Day coming up on the 18th of April. As for future work I will be starting on organization of another folder before the semester comes to an end. Once story day comes around I will be taking charge on the scanning station to ensure that folder are set up for next semesters team. One of the biggest struggles of this semester has been not being able to find documents. Especially when there are so many hands working  on similar documents. I am hoping that by working on organization during the event, before anymore work is done it will minimize mistakes or the likelihood of items being misplaced.  Until Next Time!

 Welcome back everyone.     Spring break has come to an end and we are back to our regularly scheduled program. Despite spring break being a well needed vacation for most, I used this spring break to continue working on the processing of veteran interviews. I was able to complete one full veteran folder. Hopefully once my editing process is complete we will be able to send this folder to the veteran. This way he will be able to see everything that he helped us do. I know that this has been highly anticipated by the veteran whose folder I completed. In regard to future work I will be moving on to another folder. After really getting into the nitty gritty of doing processing it didn't realize how long the process actually takes. So after experiencing this timeline, my hope it to get at least two folders completed for the entire semester. And with Story Day coming up I will be running the scanning station to ensure that all the interview documents get correctly stored and la...

 Welcome back everyone, This is the week before spring break, everyone has been working diligently and it is crazy to think that in just a few short weeks the semester will be over. I have reflected on my time in the program this semester as well as trying to do my best with that I have been given. I will always be grateful to what VHP has allowed me to experience and learn. VHP means so much to me and while this is going to be my final semester I hope to help someday even after i've graduated. What we do has impacted me so much, and has even inspired me to do more in our veteran community. With that let jump into work that has been happening. All Av Logs and Abstracts have been completed on the current veteran file I was working on. It feels like it took forever to complete  but now I get to move onto transcription which should go by quickly now that I have all the basic information. During my spring break I will be using my free time to work on another veteran file and get t...

 Welcome back everyone! This week was midterms week, I am still trudging on with transcription work, and I am constantly reminded that once you think you're done there is even more work to do. In my efforts to complete a transcript I realized that the AV Log is the most important thing without that you can't make the Abstract and therefore the transcript. The Av Log is almost done, and then the process will go that much faster. On another note we were very lucky to talk to another veteran on Friday. The veteran we spoke with was Brett Norton, we got an in depth talk about his life and time in the military and how young he was when he initially  enlisted. Listening to the stories of veterans is always a pleasure and great honor. I don't know how many more stories i will get to here before the semester is over but what I've gotten to hear and experience has been life changing. One thing i have been struggling with is time management. Working a full time job, school and an...