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IMAS McAllen TX Week two post 🎀

 Amaya Week Two Internship Dates 

July 19th-20th 

(I am to make up the days I missed on weekends)

My Week two of this YAP Internship was pretty short due to a pre-planned family vacation. However during my Friday and Saturday working hours I got to supervise older campers, work full day in the gallery, and finalize an education department project I was assigned. 

On Friday, Our campers had two options work on one full-day length activity, or finalize the artworks they had been working on the rest of the week. This camp was a little different in the sense that these campers artworks will actually be featured in the museum! Campers had to pick three artworks to be publicly shown in the museum. The full day length activity was print making. After the camp concluded (camps are from 8:30am-3:30pm) the education team decided to get free raspas that were being offered at the bank next door!



On Saturday I had the chance to work in the gallery and simultaneously start my project. My responsibilities included; handing out coloring papers for guests to “make there own gallery” keep an eye to make sure guests where following rules and count the number of guests that came in that day with a fancy black clicker. Since it was a slow day, I also got to start working on a project that had been assigned to me by my supervisor. The project was creating an easy survey that campers ages 6-12 can complete. I created a sample google form and received positive feedback from my supervisor. 

Just want to thank everyone at YAP and NYMAL for this amazing opportunity, don’t think I would’ve gotten this experience without them considering all the other staff at my museum are college students/ graduates!

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