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Week #9 Blog Prompt
Week #9 we explored cross-cultural competencies. How has this skill been useful in your internship and working with communities? How can we grow cross-cultural competencies to work effectively across cultures? Also, we would love to hear how your week is going!
Kaity Deaner
As I’m heading into my last week of the internship, I’ve reflected on several communities I interacted with through Extension. Cross-cultural competencies are essential to any career, especially one that works with the local community. In this internship, I found that it’s instrumental when working with populations I might not be familiar with. I’m able to connect with the community regardless of our backgrounds. In terms of growing cross-cultural competencies, I believe education and empathy are some of the most important factors to work effectively across cultures. Being able to learn about different perspectives and cultures can aid in the development of cross-cultural competencies. This week, I spent most of my time on the fairgrounds, helping April with all of the parts of the Cecil County Fair. On Monday, we hosted the Children’s Day at the fair. We have tables with different crafts for kids to do. Beverly and I managed the Family and Consumer Sciences table, where we...
Andrea Campos
🖤Andrea’s Adventures🖤 Start Date: July 27-31st I can’t believe this is my final week of the internship - this summer truly flew by, but I appreciate all the fun and educational tasks that I completed. I am so thankful to Mark, Kelly and Nathan- they are such cool people and I am so thankful to have been able to work with them. I learned so much from them and have so many valuable memories of all the crop scouting, office work and outreach education we did this summer! I really enjoyed going to community events and learning about what programs and projects are being done. In Montgomery county, I learned from my mentor Kelly about the close encounters program that they have in the fall. And I mentioned to her if they had any of the programs in other languages- and she said unfortunately not- so we started talking about how to translate some of the work into Spanish first- and hopefully more in the future. Here we were sifting through the soil cores from a Turf lawn. W...