Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Jose Aceves, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• Consuelo Aceves, who is the production manager in "Don Pedro's Meat", Also my mentor Andres Jaramillo Helped me complete my independent component.
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• Senior Project Hours
• (d) Explain what you completed. 
• I've competed on how a product can be best made on its faster time. Also I worked with different products in which other once take more time in being produce,   
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
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• Throughout my 30 hours of the first component I was placed in different areas of the plantation, which that helped me understand the process of how a food product is process. 
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
• The component helped me understand that you have to take time so that the result of the numbers come to live. In other words , some products need time to react in the numbers or that the consumers have to react to it. 

Lesson 2 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

• The most thing that I'm most proud of is that I made time because a day before I was short in time.

2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

• The reason that I gave this grade to myself is because i wasn't prepare enough compare to the first lesson. Also I was over confident, which I was ready for the presentation, but i was ready. 

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

• This lesson 2 presentation was sort of the same to the first but you needed to have an activity that will show the students how you got the answer.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

• The activity wasn't how i planned because it was a disaster, one group wasn't doing it they were doing something else. If i had to change any thing is the activity so that it could be more  enjoyable.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

• I was going to input this answer in my first  one but i thought it was to much. For my answer #2 in my senior project is going to be, for a company to maximize their product while maintaining quality control by having less expensive or more organic or have a great promotion for the product you are willing to sale. 

Third Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

• I am planning to interview a sale representation his name is Oskar Ruiz. He is responsible of obtaining new customers into the company currently they obtain the store from "food4less" distributors to expand the company. 

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 

• I have not schedule with the interviewee the date and time for the interview but we have talked about it.  

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ

• As from your experience what do you suggest that I read to find the information that I need.

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

• To know the information within my EQ what would you recommend me to do?

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

• I'd like to help you find the best possible information. Can you tell me more about what you do with specific details?
• I'd be interested in knowing how you will answer my EQ?

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In

1.Where are you doing your mentorship?

• For my mentorship I still going with the same mentor who is helping me on the best way the profit come from.  

2.Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?

• My contact is Andres Jaramillo a owner of "Don Pedro's Meat" . Andres has been in the industry for over 10 years in this business so i think he has a n    

3.How many  hours have you done during the school year? .

• I have done 107 hours during school year with my mentor.

4.Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.

• When I arrive to my mentors office I quickly go straight to the office assistant because that's where I obtain the customerlist that I call. After I'm done calling the customers, I file papers and obtain the knowledge on what sale more and way. Sometime I can talk to the customers that come and buy the products   

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?
During the winter break have made 16 hours more for senior project. 

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?
As for the things I learn was have pasions with people within the business because some to the customers don't pay on the right time.
 
3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?
For my three interview I'm planning to interview a sales representitives because they have view the reaction within the product selling.  

Blog 11: Lesson 1 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?


I'm most proud of making the time because I really wasn't thinking that i was going to make the time.

2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson? Explain why you earned that grade using evidence from the component contract.

AP/P, because I talked to fast and the posters weren't useful for the presentation. I use the word "like" in every time I changed the topic .

3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson?  How can you use that knowledge to give a better Lesson 2?

If i had the chance to go back, I will tell myself that its okay and you are going to make it on time. I wouldn't mad the posters because i really didn't use them, instead I would use the camera thing to show in the board. 

Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentor ship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

During my mentor ship, currently help secretary filing paper/ imputing information in the computer/ knowing how much each of the products have sale per month. Sometime I shadow with my mentor, but currently i have not because he has a problem right now. based on my topic I'm learning how each products is being sale per month.  

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?  

My mentor is my mom's boss, but we didn't have that close relationship. The only place that I saw he was when he made small parties fro his company. well i didn't convince him, I told him about the senior project and asked if he was willing to help me in this project and said yes.

  

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentor ship/with this person

  I will rate my comfort level with my mentor from 1-10 is 7, because its like the relationship with         your teacher. yes it does relate to the time we have spend in mentor ship.

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

The interview went well but it was quick because he needed to go some where. he answered the question has professional as he can and giving me his point of view and knowledge.  I really want to make a poster advertisment with one of the product in his company.