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**(Must be submitted by April 30, 2010) **  APPLICANT’S NAME __Matthew Dugan__  DATE __4/27/10__    1. REASONS FOR UNDERTAKING THE PROJECT:  There are various reasons for undertaking the project, including enhancing my job experience, landscaping, designing, painting, and improving team working skills. The plan of the project is to landscape and paint areas of interest for the business. Besides improving my skills it also helps the business because by doing landscaping and painting it improves the aesthetics of the building. By doing these skills now, I am learning many different abilities that will be invaluable in my future endeavors, even if I do not go into the field of landscaping or painting. Another reason is to learn and experience manual labor in a more job-like setting. My previous experience of manual labor has almost always been in the setting of my home and family and it would be beneficial to learn how to work with a boss in a different setting. I am used to an academic world and it would be beneficial for me to get out of that setting and learn what physical work entails.   2. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ACTIVITIES: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The first of the activities will be to discuss the details of the work with head of the business to properly plan out the labor. After that, it is important to do preliminary research on the occupation in order to understand the task and successfully complete the job. Along with discussing the job with people in the field, I plan on using the internet as a tool of teaching. Next will be properly obtaining the supplies needed and working with me fellow workers to plan out how we plan on painting the porch of the business. We will have a detailed and well thought out plan of how we will paint the porch in order to ensure quality. Along with painting the porch, we will also be doing various landscaping work in the business. Much of this is subject to change, but plans are to increases the aesthetics of the grass, working on cementing the drive way, and trimming the bushes. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">EXPECTED EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Educational outcomes that will I learn from this experience will be the work of painters and landscapers. It will be one of my few experiences working with a boss who will hold me accountable for my job along with working with a group of people. Working with people on a difficult task such as painting will increase my team building skills, as working with people is very important in life and in the work world.
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