Template Creation and Spontaneous Redsox Game


Date: May 8th

The couple days this week have been very beneficial to Laura, as she is dealing with calls on top of calls about her upcoming conference in Kenya. Today was occupied by a continuation of the work I did yesterday with the briefing book for Laura’s conference. Instead of the cover chart I did with company logos yesterday, this morning and afternoon we created templates for all organizations invited to the conference to fill out. Henry and I filled in the social mission and a brief bio for each of the organizations but it is up to them to fill out their schedule and activity information for their field visit. Each organization will offer a field visit during the conference and we are creating this briefing book so the people of the conference can decide which organization they would like to learn more about. As a treat to ourselves, we decided to go to the Redsox game as they were in town for their series against Baltimore. We got to baltimore early so we filled our time with an entertaining visit to the National Aquarium and dinner nearby. The Red Sox got the win and we had a lot of fun so it was definitely a successful trip for us.

 Total Hours of Day: 6
Total Hours of Project: 50

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