Emma Macintire

A student ambassador's main role is to give tours and lead large information sessions, often sharing personal experiences through kind conversation with prospective students. Ambassadors also begin to develop quick thinking skills, marketing tactics, and social intelligence through such community engagement in practice. In addition to giving tours, ambassadors develop organizational skills by assisting admissions counselors with time sensitive projects, writing postcards to local high schoolers in order to gather interest in the institution, and answer incoming phones calls from prospective families.

Prior to the summer season, all counselors underwent intensive child safety training. During a typical summer day, a group of ten children under the age of 7 were assigned to a counselor. Leadership skills were utilized to ensure the children made it to their scheduled activities on time for ample learning opportunity, while simultaneously maintaining the happiness of each child. This line of work also aided the development of interpersonal skills in learning to work with a variety of counselors. Additionally, it is impertinent that as a counselor, one must remain alert, responsive, and attentive to prioritize the safety and comfortability of the campers.

For two full weeks, I interned under supervision of Wachusett's web designers, helping them improve their website to better appeal to younger eyes. I first gathered information on which facets of the website needed the most help, then I reviewed the websites of other ski resorts to compare and contrast. I took notes to ultimately produce a final portfolio of written criticism to give to the supervisor. After presenting my work, I assisted in updating outdated captions, photos, and verbiage to make the website more concise and attractive to the public. As this internship was also my graduation project, I created a final presentation documenting my internship experiences, displaying my work to my graduating class and advisors.