In my time at the Design Lab\u00a0I learned a range of skills, both professional and for my own personal design. With the Workshops we would hold I received a lot of opportunities to practice preparing and organizing educational programs as well as working alongside professors and educators with high school students. Field trips gave me a chance to exercise my knowledge of the College of Design as well as learn even more that I had not already known. Open Studios allowed me to work one-on-one with students to give them advice and I learn from them as well. For example: a student told me about using a white gel pen to highlight drawings which I brought into my Basic Drawing course to share with my peers. Open House was a chance to practice talking to parents of potential students and advertising our future programs.<\/p>\n Working with Julia, Kathleen, and Dustin was a rich, collaborative, and motivating experience. Everyone was so welcoming and willing to listen to each other and allowed me to have an input in programs that I would be involved with. I was invited to events I would not normally have been able to attend and was able to meet administrative members of both the College of Design and the University. I have never been treated so well and had my thoughts and feelings considered through any other employment; I was really lucky to be so comfortable and welcomed by the team. Overall, my time at the Design Lab was rich, educational, professional, and comfortable. I consider myself very fortunate to have spent so much time there and I am sure anyone in the future who fills my position will feel the same.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"by\u00a0Alex Kenneke [Design Studies student]\n\nI spent the past two semesters working as an intern with the Design Lab for K-12 Education<\/a> and I would consider it one of the most important experiences of my career as a student. Not only did I gain experience with educating students, organizing workshops, and working with teenagers as well as other educators, but I learned so much along the way that will benefit my own path as a designer.\n\n Alex Kenneke shares how his time interning with Design Lab K-12 helped him to develop skills that he can carry forward into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,17],"class_list":["post-21153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art-design","tag-design-lab-k-12"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alex](\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed-1.jpg\")
<\/a>I had some exposure to the Design Lab for K-12 Education when I worked as a counselor at Design Camp<\/a> over the summer of 2015. I was very impressed with their planning and consideration of every factor of the program. Nothing is overlooked. But the number one factor that is considered is the well-being and experience of the students. Nothing is more important. This was really inspiring because the Design Lab really goes above and beyond to hold these programs. Because of this, I was very excited to be presented the opportunity to work with the Design Lab during the school year as an intern.<\/p>\n<\/a>I had some exposure to the Design Lab for K-12 Education when I worked as a counselor at Design Camp<\/a> over the summer of 2015. I was very impressed with their planning and consideration of every factor of the program. Nothing is overlooked. But the number one factor that is considered is the well-being and experience of the students. Nothing is more important. This was really inspiring because the Design Lab really goes above and beyond to hold these programs. Because of this, I was very excited to be presented the opportunity to work with the Design Lab during the school year as an intern.\n\nIn my time at the Design Lab\u00a0I learned a range of skills, both professional and for my own personal design. With the Workshops we would hold I received a lot of opportunities to practice preparing and organizing educational programs as well as working alongside professors and educators with high school students. Field trips gave me a chance to exercise my knowledge of the College of Design as well as learn even more that I had not already known. Open Studios allowed me to work one-on-one with students to give them advice and I learn from them as well. For example: a student told me about using a white gel pen to highlight drawings which I brought into my Basic Drawing course to share with my peers. Open House was a chance to practice talking to parents of potential students and advertising our future programs.\n\nWorking with Julia, Kathleen, and Dustin was a rich, collaborative, and motivating experience. Everyone was so welcoming and willing to listen to each other and allowed me to have an input in programs that I would be involved with. I was invited to events I would not normally have been able to attend and was able to meet administrative members of both the College of Design and the University. I have never been treated so well and had my thoughts and feelings considered through any other employment; I was really lucky to be so comfortable and welcomed by the team. Overall, my time at the Design Lab was rich, educational, professional, and comfortable. I consider myself very fortunate to have spent so much time there and I am sure anyone in the future who fills my position will feel the same.\n\n \n\n "},"excerpt":{"rendered":"