Day 12-Mentorship Check-in

With the hiring phase in full swing, and many applicants coming in, I took the check-in time to discuss where the work study program was, and where I felt it needed to go. With a reduction/ near elimination of games in the fall being decided, we began to brainstorm new ways to utilize the work study students in order for them to still obtain hours and make the job worth working on their side. Many of the students desire small work weeks roughly 5-10 hours. The work load is manageable with classes and practice for many of them. With no games however, it will be extremely difficult to find 5-10 hours of work per week for 35 students. Thus Paul Lyon and myself looked at other options. The best one coming from the meeting was the use of work studies in our daily screening process we plan to implement at the Wheeler Center gym (home of our athletic programs).

The idea is to use work studies to help administer pulse ox and temperature scans to identify healthy individuals cleared for activities with the help of the athletic trainers where the screening will occur. The additional use of the students here will free up the athletic trainers to do the normal work they were hired to do, while also providing roughly 30-40 hours for students to work and acquire the needed money. Overall the check-in was a great success, and I look forward to the new and useful way of using the workers that benefits all parties.