A Summer of Impact

This past summer I worked my first internship with Team Impact. My official title was “Student-Athlete Development Intern” and my primary job was to assist my boss in preparing for the annual Team Impact Fellowship Summit. The biggest project that I had was creating virtual campus folders for all 138 Fellowship campuses matched with Team Impact. These campus folders included the Fellowship Handbook, toolkits for event planning and medical outreach, social media guides, and campus plans outlining the organization’s annual goals for that school. Each folder took approximately 4 hours to complete. In addition to each virtual campus folder, I created a physical campus folder for each of the 175 Fellows who attended the summit in Boston, MA. 

I live approximately an hour outside the city of Boston, MA and I went into the office in Quincy, MA once a week. It took me approximately an hour and half to arrive at the office, so I would leave my house around 6:30am in order to arrive by 8am. On the days I was not in the office, I would work remotely from home, regularly being on Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls. I would work from approximately 8am to 4pm. I definitely preferred working in the office (as opposed to remotely) and being alongside my coworkers. This internship was my first official job and so I got a small taste of what I can expect at jobs in the future. I was able to develop intimate relationships with my two bosses and we still regularly keep in touch. Working closely with them taught me how to work more efficiently with others, how to communicate better, and how to manage my time more effectively. 

I became familiar with Microsoft 365 and developed skills in Excel and PowerPoint thanks to the guidance of my two bosses. I had never previously used Microsoft 365 because I came from a school that predominantly uses Google, so learning how to use these programs was a challenge at first. I had to ask a lot of questions about how to navigate and understand the programs, but after some time I began to get the hang of it and became rather proficient at creating and editing spreadsheets and PowerPoints in addition to communicating via Microsoft Teams. I enjoyed being forced to use programs that were out of my comfort zone because it forced me to develop new and valuable skills.