Blog 20 - Fourth Interview Questions

  1.Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
I plan on interviewing the President of San Dimas Little League and his expertise would be running a very large league with hundreds of players involved in it.



2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
The most important thing I've learned from this interview is how much pricing goes into whether or not parents will put their kids into sports leagues.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
Not a whole lot has changed, the main thing would be I have less questions prepared and more just ask what comes to mind based off what the other person is saying so it makes me listen more rather than thinking about what I will say next.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx-BoNqTy86HYUNiSGUxRW83RHJRYTRqYzVHcnlWbEZjY3A0/view?usp=sharing

Blog 14: Third Interview Preparation

                       

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
The president of AYSO
2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 
February 11th at 4pm
3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.
How can kids learn from and enjoy sports?
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).
What is the best part of sports to players?
5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 
What helps players have the most fun in youth sports?
How can this be consistently provided?

Blog 10: Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship 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...)

I am spending my mentorship hours in a workplace setting up fields, answering questions for parents, coaching my own team, and then tearing down fields. 

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?
   
My mentor wasn't difficult to find, the hard part was convincing him to loan me the cash to buy over the league and having him help me out with the management until I am 18. Once this was in place it was easy to have my mentor agree to be my schooling mentor for this project.

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 mentorship/with this person?

I feel very comfortable with my mentor being I've known him for so long (my whole life).

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?

I believe this interview went well, at least better than last time. The point of the interview seemed clear, but the length of the answers can be adjusted in time. I can go about this by cutting answers a little shorter or asking smaller questions.

Interview:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx-BoNqTy86HMDFIMUdQd2U5Snc/view?usp=sharing

Blog 7 - Second Interview

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?  If their workplace does not reflect their expertise, what makes them an expert?

John B. is currently co-owner of AVY Flag Football. Before this he was also apart of youth sports for many years, and has helped develop a youth racing organization in Orange County. During this he helped negotiate relationships between OSQMRA (the racing organization), Orange Show Speedway, and USCA (the governing body of sprint car racing and off - road racing).

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

- How long have you been involved with youth sports?
- What positions have you held in your time in youth sports?
- What has been your goal being apart of these organizations?
- What is the hardest challenge you had to overcome in youth sports?
- What experience or knowledge do you feel helps one succeed in youth sports the most?

Blog 5 - Interview 1 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?
The most important thing I learned from this interview is how contacts I have made over the years can be used to gain different perspectives on my own topic. In my next interview I plan to expand on the types of questions I ask and keep a more conversational pace.

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts?  What is the most useful?  Why?
I did not get any new contacts but it was brought to my attention how I could use contacts I've already known to my advantage for my topic.

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me? 
John has helped me through contract negotiations and has done a good job outlining work needing to be done leading up to the beginning of the Fall 2015 Flag Football Season. He also has been apart of youth sports for many years, and has eloped create a youth racing organization.

https://soundcloud.com/don-b-2156212/interview1

Blog 3 - First Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview?  Why?
1. I plan on interviewing John B. for my first interview. Being on of my two mentors for my senior project, John has helped me through contract negotiations and has done a good job outlining work needing to be done leading up to the beginning of the Fall 2015 Flag Football Season.
2. Five questions will be assigned to all seniors to ask.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?  Ask open-ended questions.  What are open-ended questions?
1. Additionally to the 5 questions assigned to ask, I plan on asking why John so strongly took a part in youth sports instead of sitting back as most parents do? Another question I'd ask would be which characteristic in a person is the most beneficial in providing management in youth sports?