Experience Matters - Grand Valley State University

Marketing in the Performing Arts

Megan
Major: Advertising & Public Relations Corey adjusts tasks based on interest, but I completed copywriting for email, programs, radio, and social media. I helped set up the hall for concerts as well and worked front-of-house multiple times during the semester. Sometimes I would complete research, as well.

Reporting for the Washington Blade

Joshua
Major: Multimedia Journalism Working from Washington D.C. over the summer, I served as a reporter for the Blade covering my area of interest and focus, national politics. I reported on numerous stories from Capitol Hill and other areas to relate news in the political arena to how they affected the LGBTQ community. In doing so, I covered events including press conferences as the Capitol featuring high-profile members of Congress and was the Blade's on-the-ground reporter at the epicenter of protests outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the day of its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization to rescind the nationwide right to abortion access.

Internship at Allendale Public Schools

Brayden
Major: Sport Management I spent my time either working events or in the school. For events, I would set up before events, take down after, and make sure things were running smoothly during the event. Some things were specific to the sport. During boys soccer and basketball I would often be in charge of the clock and scoreboard. For football games I would work as the spotter, meaning I would watch who the ball carrier was and who made the tackle then give the numbers to the announcer. Most of my event work was focused on how to run an event and learn all the little details that make for a successful event. In the school, I did a wide range of tasks. Somedays it was organizing contracts. Other days I was hanging up or taking down posters in the gym. There were times where I just sat back and learned how do do things like scheduling games or would listen to my supervisor talk to coaches.

My Game Ops Experience

Robert
Major: Sport Management The tasks/projects I have completed are different in each sport. In all sports we set up and prepare the event beforehand. Iýve managed traffic for parking during the events and helped with post game tear down. Iýve also been a ball boy for soccer games. While not working games, I am in our departmentýs office completing other tasks such as doing inventory, making sure the golf carts are filled with gas, and helping with delivered packages.

Cotiviti Internship Experience

Sajal
Major: Statistics While at Cotiviti, I worked on multiple projects with various software architectures, including AWS cloud and On-premise data center. I am responsible for designing and building continuous integration and deployment pipelines, performing configuration management, following security guidelines, and architect cloud environments. I worked closely with the development team to build and deploy the .Net, Java, Python, and SSIS projects across various development, staging, and production environments. I also got the chance to design and build an internal in-house application from scratch, which helped the team to automate routine tasks. The application had many services, including backend, frontend, message queue, caching, proxy and database. I am working with the Data Operations team to design and build infrastructure-as-code and data pipelines for the AWS environment.

Local Spins Music Reporter

Benjamin
Major: Multimedia Journalism Most of the tasks given to myself and my fellow interns were concert and festival reviews. After being given a specific event to cover, I was asked to describe the scene of the show, what songs were sung, how the audience reacted to the music, and to get a quote from a concertgoer and/or a band member. We were also given a final project in which we were asked to find a local band, conduct an interview, and piece together a feature story about the band and their influence on the local music scene.

Data Analyst for Outpatient Dosing Concordance check

Kushal
Major: Statistics Currently, I am working on antibiotic prescription data from outpatient clinics in the health systems of Michigan. My role is to conduct ETL to clean and transform the unstructured messy data into structured data and load them to the SQL Server database. Several SQL transformations are done on several attributes to standardize the values. I have also created several metrics on the data warehouse to measure antibiotic use and appropriateness. I am currently creating dashboards on Power BI based on the patient data to analyze if health providers are following practice guidelines when writing a prescription with respect to drug choice and dosing choice.

Henry Ford Public Health Internship

Hannah
Major: Health Communication Over the summer, I completed various projects, such as creating flyers/posters for research projects, creating infographics, overseeing a photo shoot in downtown Detroit, event planning and promotion, and more.

GVSU Club Sports Promotions Intern

Taylor
Major: Sport Management While in this position I am in charge of all of the official GVSU Club Sports social media pages. I had to attend many events to gather content to create posts for socials. I also had to design the club sports website and keep up to date with all 40-plus clubs. I am in charge of the email and communicate daily with hundreds of students and peers.

TPUSA Events Internship

Marissa
Major: Communications I reported to work three days a week and worked a total of twenty-four hours every week. I was lucky enough to have such a hands-on learning experience of diving right in and helping in any way that I could to benefit the company and my team members. I worked on a team that was made up of ten individuals. The events team was small compared to the other departments, but the company was quite large and made up of determined people that were always ready to work. The organization had two large events that my team created, organized, and managed. The first conference was in Dallas, Texas in June and the second conference was in Tampa, Florida in July. My role before the conferences began was to manage attendees by approving ones that already applied to attend the conferences, emailing them back, and answering any questions that they asked. I also had to call and order supplies for the events, put attendees and employees in hotel rooms for the events, and execute any task that I was asked to do, such as managing the events team's Instagram by promoting information that encouraged people to attend the conferences. The main tasks that I primarily focused on while physically working in the office were accepting applications for the conference, sending the attendees a confirmation that they were approved to attend the conference, and replying to emails that any of the attendees sent in. I would respond to each email and clarify any concerns that the attendees had. It felt incredible knowing that I was impacting someoneýs life in a positive way by making their day better just by clarifying information for them.

Kennedy's Sport management Internship

Kennedy
Major: Sport Management Throughout my internship, I completed many tasks. On the daily, I would book hotel rooms for entire teams, and families. I would call hotels and create room blocks for numerous teams, which took a lot of patience and time. I also sent out mass emails weekly to the soccer club families informing them of weekly updates. I also took on my own team as a coach, and got to learn the sport management side of coaching. I answered phone calls, helped with event coordination etc. Each day there is a different task assigned.

Michael Lynn Animation Studio - Illustration Internship

Kobe
Major: Film & Video As of Oct 18, 2022: - Designed character concept art for "Adopted Family" cartoon pitch for collaboration with Bethany Christian Services. - Developed environmental concept art for children's show, "Wimee's World"

Assistant Clubhouse Attendant

Tanner
Major: Sport Management I managed and took care of the visiting baseball teams when they would come in for a six game homestand as well as assisted with anything the home team needed. A usual day for me would be arriving around 11:30am. I would get the clean laundry out of the bins in my clubhouse and hang the players jersey and pants on a rack for them to grab when they walked in. I hung the coaches clothes in their lockers and made sure their shoes were cleaned. I would get coffee started and restock the water cooler with bottled water. I would finish drying towels for both clubhouses and get those folded throughout the day. I would then make sure all 6 water coolers in the dugouts were filled with ice and cold water for the game and that they had cups with them. Most teams would start to arrive by 1:30-2:00pm and I would assist with setting up their lunches when it arrived then clean it up before game time. I was in charge of keeping my clubhouse clean and organized by taking out the trash and making sure it was presentable. During the game I would wash and fold towels again so they were ready postgame. After the game was done I would have already setup their postgame meal when it was delivered during the game but would wait for all players to leave and head back to the hotel so I could begin cleaning up the postgame food, taking out the trash, organizing the clubhouse and getting all dirty laundry to the main clubhouse attendant to get started washed for the next day.

Professional Soccer in Kansas City

Clare
Major: Management I was able to witness firsthand how professional soccer stadiums operate. I performed many different roles throughout the stadium and collaborated with many different departments and employees across the organization. I learned to understand the logistics and execution of match days for Sporting Kansas City, Kansas City Current, and the US Menýs National Team along with other special events including corporate meetings, weddings, conferences, and fundraisers. I also worked non-stadium events such as Sporting Kansas City 2 games and events at the teamýs training facility. My match day duties included assisting with sponsorship activations on the plaza, making sure correct signage and supplies were placed around the stadium, and ensuring that premium spaces were set up correctly.

Windy City Thunderbolts Intern

Taylor
Major: Sport Management As a promotions intern, I assisted with the set up and execution of all on-field promotions, including selecting the contestants to participant in them. I also updated the game script for the announcer before every game.

NCMC Athletics

Brooke
Major: Sport Management As the intern of a brand new college athletic program, I had many responsibilities. I assisted the athletic director in scheduling, booking hotels and transportation for away sporting events, creating student athlete portfolios, and running new student orientations. I also ordered new equipment and assembled it for the athletic program.

Asst Camp Director with GVSU Basketball

Martin
Major: Sport Management It depended on the camp but I ran score clocks for games and kept track of stats, taught drills, coached, refereed games, helped register teams, ordered food, and worked admissions.

It's Your Summer

Shane
Major: Sport Management At the Whitecaps, I would help set up batting practice by placing screens and skirts to protect the field and players. Then I would smooth out the warning track before the game to make it a level playing field and I would also put in the bases for the game. There are 7-8 of us and we all had our specific job to make sure the game started on time. After the game, my job was to fix and prepare the mound for the game for the following day.

MSA Woodland Intern

Daniel
Major: Sport Management My main responsibilities for my internship included: maintaining facility maintenance of the Woodland Facility, scheduling facility rentals for clients, creating monthly schedules for the facility, checking in members for drop-in play, concessions work during tournaments/events, event set-up/tear down for tournament play, creating a practice plan for youth basketball coaches, office admin work and any other day-to-day tasks that were needed.

Kids adventures

tori
Major: Sport Management I have taught kids all different games and swimming lessons in the pool and out of the pool. We even got to use the golf simulator and I was able to teach the kids how to swing a gold club. There also were days where I taught arts and crafts.

Tech Defender's Data Migration

Matt
Major: Computer Science Tech Defenders recently switched to a new instance of their cloud storage. One of my main tasks was to migrate this data. I pulled it from their Net Suite instance, and then built a new Postgres database with Google Cloud SQL to move their data to. After the data was moved, I built a front end with R-Shiny so that the other employees could easily access the old data.

MBA Coaching Experience

Brooke
Major: Sport Management I coached the 6th grade blue team, pictured above, for about 4 months. I then moved to coaching the 6th UA future team and a 9th/10th regional team which I will be with throughout the summer. Coaching consist of running multiple practices a week and traveling for tournaments on the weekend. I also gained a lot of experience in being a site manager at our location when we would host tournaments.

EGR Intern Experience

Nathan
Major: Sport Management Throughout my time working at East I have had the opportunity to work at basketball games, soccer games, and lacrosse games where I have been involved in the event set up, take down, and supervision. Day-to-day responsibilities include working on social media graphics, assisting the athletic director with facility maintenance, and learning the daily operations involved in running an athletic department.

Event Intern

Charles
Major: Communications I was put in charge of establishing social media posts, communicating with clients and guests at events, and planning and hosting my own community gingerbread decorating event. I also was in charge of creating guidelines for all future event assistants.

Assistant Middle School Athletic Coordinator

Scott
Major: Sport Management The main project this semester has been a proposal for an overhaul of the entire athletic system in GRPS Middle School Athletics. We are attempting to have our middle schools join a conference and introduce a more competitive format to help prepare our students for high school athletics. Aside from this task I have done scheduling for several sports as well as assisted in a walk through at Van Andel arena and surrounding area for this fall's turkey trot. Additionally, I have done game operations, setting up and breaking down events, as well as officiating.