Elevator Pitch: Our purpose is to publicize health advocacy around Indianapolis and reach others outside Indianapolis. Uploading monthly podcast episodes around pediatric health can help families understand what they are going through and give them helpful tips to help their children stay healthy. Did you know we have uploaded episodes on the IU Medical School Website since 2010? 

Success: I have felt successful as an intern when communicating with pediatric department residents. I was nervous at first when I had to email them about their scripts to the residents. I had to conduct a strong introduction of what my partner and I do as interns and how we needed their script at least a week before the recording date. However, I knew I had a strong ability to form a strong email, and I did. I looked at examples from my partner, and I emailed the residents with proper instructors and deadlines. I have never felt more successful in my life in organizing emails than that. Another time I felt successful as an intern was when I made a social media post to promote the new episode I had uploaded. It was the first episode for October, and I created a Halloween theme post using Canva. I used eye-catching fonts and pictures to capture audiences to see and listen to the new episode that I uploaded that day. The final post came out very well put together, and it made the Kids Healthcast social media pages look captivating. Making my first social media posts for the Kids Healthcast made me feel successful. These successes I have learned can be brought into future academic and career goals by showing my future supervisors or healthcare staff how organized I can be with different types of tasks, and no matter how difficult it can be, I will find a way to accomplish it. 

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Challenges: One thing that was challenging as an intern was remembering to clock in and clock out using the Kuali Time. Every time I was working on an episode, I would clock in, but after I was done, I would forget to clock out. It was difficult for me because I had classwork to work on, exams to study for, and family situations to work on after completing my time with the internship. When I was done looking at scripts or episodes, I would immediately start working on my homework or studying. I solved this issue by communicating with my supervisor, and she made me feel better because she told me how forgetful she would become when clocking out, and it made me feel like I wasn't alone in this situation. I resolved this by setting up a timer to help me remind myself to clock out. Another challenge I had was when I first used the Adobe Premier editing tool. When I first started to edit my first episode, it was hard to maneuver, and I was confused by all the applications it had. There were so many applications placed on this editing tool I didn't know which one to use or how to use it when editing an episode. To resolve this hardship I looked at videos from previous interns to help guide me in what I had to click on and use. This has helped me so much that it became easier with every practice. My internship team has helped me overcome these challenges by giving me the resources they had used with past interns to help me get the hang of things. Most importantly they reflected with me on how people make mistakes and it is okay to make them and learn from them.