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# Internship tips and thoughts

## Tips
- Set workspace, Set work hours
    - Turn on your camera
- Don't to get some excercise, walk, or something else
- Regular meeting with your mentor to work through issues
- You don't have to be online all the time
- This is not a normal thing
    - If you hit issues make sure you speak up

## Community / part of the team
- Connection
    - Connect regularly
    - Daily meeting
    - Frequent chats on teams

## Success
- Need to have a good picture by week 6
- How do they connect and go about the problem
- How do they remove barriers and deal with ambigutity 

## Things to think about
- Encourage asking questions, encouraging interns connect to us on teams
    - Answer thier questions promptly
    - Be available for them
    - Dedicate time for them to come bring questions. 
- Integrate them in as a member of the team. Don't give them a seperate isolated project
- Autonomy and trust
    - Give them space, let them excercise thier own judgment
    - Create clear accountability
- Thought: Teams is better than knocking on doors
    - Be responsive and welcoming on teams 
    - This is true for mentor **and** the whole team
    - What can we learn from interns?

## Setup
- Talk with intern ahead of time about how they like to communicate
- Direct conversation about communication and work style

## end purpose
- Interns evaluating what they want to do
- We evaluating if interns are good fit


