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my name is xavier rudisl i work at camp
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north end part of atco properties and
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real estate management and my job title
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is community experience coordinator
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and in layman's terms i'm part of the
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fund committee at camp norfolk
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so we have two maya interns this year um
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so one is in two different departments
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well one for each department so one is
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in the community team department which
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is my department mainly focused on
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marketing pr and events and then the
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other intern is in the leasing and
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placemaking department so they're doing
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a little bit with public art interior
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exterior design and real estate and
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development for the project
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so the the intern and the leasing and
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place making department it's helping
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support those departments with their
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art databases and kind of researching
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new artists to kind of bring out here to
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do more public art and also researching
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new businesses to for us to kind of
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reach out to and kind of bring to
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charlotte and bring to kent work in and
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the community team intern has been
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assisting us with content development
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for our social media and also assisting
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and learning more about running events
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and running some of our music stages we
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kind of learned about mayap in a
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untraditional way so one of the things
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that i do at kept northern is manage our
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ambassador program and bethany rodriguez
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was a member of the ambassador program
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and after she and i built that
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relationship and she kind of learned
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more about camp north then
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she felt like kent norton would be a
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great fit for maya i've been having a
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couple of students here so she pitched
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um becoming maya post to myself and some
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other members of our team and kind of
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from there we were kind of sold on kind
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of like working with bethany again and
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also working with the city in a
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different relationship with some other
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ones
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i think it's helped us in a tremendous
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way five weeks we feel wasn't enough
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time we'd love to have them for five
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months or five years um if we could um
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but definitely it's been super helpful
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just being able to kind of
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have them help us with some tasks that
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we kind of keep putting on the back
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burner that are equally important as
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some of our larger projects we just
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don't really have the extra brain power
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or manpower to kind of work on so
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they've been super helpful on that front
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especially when it comes to helping us
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get organized with some things and then
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also just kind of having them come in
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and kind of be a breath of fresh air
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since they are high schoolers and a
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little more in tune to what the younger
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generations are kind of into and excited
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about and kind of can bring to our
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businesses i think it's been super great
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to kind of have that perspective
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in some of our conversations we invite
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them to any meeting that they want to
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come to and kind of like let them ask
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questions and kind of propose things so
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that's been super helpful just kind of
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getting some new ideas kind of brought
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into the conversation that we wouldn't
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have had with that demographics
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one of the first things we had both
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interns do was take a sitewide tour with
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us um and along with like just kind of
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learning more and getting the lay of the
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land of camp northam we actually
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introduced them to all the tenants who
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happened to be open and we kind of said
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hey too
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and from there they have kind of chosen
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which ones they kind of want to go to
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again after the fact whether it's
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patronizing them or just meeting them
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and kind of experiencing what they have
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to offer or just learning more from them
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and kind of like beginning to open up
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those doors for other opportunities even
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beyond our internship so they've
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definitely kind of learned more about
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big businesses and small businesses as
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well working here i believe so another
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one of the things that we kind of had
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them do during the first week or so
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was i told both xbox interns to take
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some time to really meet all the members
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of kept north end's team there's 10 of
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us 10 of us on site and then the head of
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atco and also the head of our team damon
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israel in new york and beyond just like
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getting to know what everyone does on
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the team also kind of helping them
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figure out you know how to meet your
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co-workers how to how to kind of like
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start conversations with them i thought
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was really important especially be
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getting that and out of high school age
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most people most high schoolers don't
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know how to do that and don't really
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know how to like become that first
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person to say hey how are you i'm
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touching such i want to ask you some
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questions so that was a big part for us
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and after them kind of going through
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that process and meeting all 10 11 of
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those people on our team we could
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already tell they were more
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confident in themselves to kind of go up
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to other people as they were kind of
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working with us and if we were like hey
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if you want to meet somebody just go say
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hey let them know what you're doing um
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so from those internships some of those
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mentorships are some of those other
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tasks that require them to kind of speak
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up and kind of advocate for themselves
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we've seen them kind of grow in their
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confidence in themselves and really
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be bigger advocates and ambassadors for
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themselves and their skills as well
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beyond the fact of just having some
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highly capable students working with
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your team not for but working with your
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team and kind of assisting you for those
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five weeks i do think it's also an easy
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process to get um an intern or intern
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multiple um just because the cool thing
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about mayap is that um the maya team
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takes on pairing up interns with
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potential host employees because the
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application and interview process for
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interns can be time consuming
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but the fact that mayap kind of takes
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that portion out of it and kind of pairs
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them up for you
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kind of takes that level of stress and
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level of like time consumption of
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finding the right intern out of it so i
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think it's a great way to kind of get it
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in turn without having to go through the
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entire process of getting an intern and
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then again going back to the fact that
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having high schoolers and kind of having
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younger people in your workplace is
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great for ideations and great for kind
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of figuring out you know what's new
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what's popular what's working and what's
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not having that person of eyes
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is super important most people think
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that high schoolers may not be capable
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of doing the things that has been asked
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of them but i think the my up students
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after they've gone through that
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application process through maya kind of
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weeds out um the ones who may not be
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careful but kind of brings out the best
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of the best and kind of gives those
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to the host employer so i think all
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those are great reasons to get involved
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with the maya program and why i highly
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recommend it
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