VLP Week 8 (3/6/2026)

         Hello everyone, this is now week 8 of my internship with UCF’s Veterans Legacy Program. Last week I didn’t have a whole lot to talk about, but as I predicted in my last post this week I was much more busy both with working on midterms but also there has been an exciting new development with my internship.


But first I’ll get the usual out of the way. On Wednesday I did metadata and scanning at the Museum of Military History in Kissimmee, our team had finished the scanning and metadata for the collection on the first veteran we were working on so now we moved on to a new set of veterans and their documents, so that will show some new and interesting sources but the work itself remains largely similar which has gotten me down to a routine, which I don’t overly mind. And furthermore I still am going to be working on creating pdfs for VLM even if we still don’t have the go ahead from the VA to upload them.


But now it's time to talk about something new. This Tuesday for our meeting, instead of having it in our usual place in the CHDR we held our meeting at the Texas Instruments lab. The reason for this is that the VLP is working on something for a lesson plan where students can learn about national cemeteries by doing headstone rubbings so that they can get a personal hands-on experience with the veterans they are learning about. However, as you can imagine it is not always practical to ship an entire classroom out to a national cemetery to do this, so in response our team has decided to create replicas of headstones from national cemeteries so they can have this experience in the classroom itself. So we went to the TI lab to see if some of the equipment they have can help us, and they had some pretty cool stuff there, the two things that we mostly focused on were their 3D printer and laser cutter, which is the first time I think I had seen either in person.


As for what this has to do for me, during the meeting it was asked if any of the team wanted to help out and learn how to use some of the equipment, and I volunteered to help. As such, this upcoming Wednesday Myself and the other team members who volunteered to help will be going back to the lab to discuss using the equipment. I am very excited for this as this is something completely new for me, as mentioned previously I had never even seen a 3D printer in person before, so I am very excited about that and will be eager to tell you all what happens next week.


But until then that’s all I have for this week, I hope you all have a great weekend and I’ll see you next week.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

VLP Blog Week 1 (1/16/26).

                 Hello everyone and happy new year, my name is Liam Ambrose; I am a third year student at the University of Central Florida and I am majoring in history with a minor in anthropology. The purpose of this blog is to document my time with my internship at UCF’s Veteran’s Legacy Program. As it is the first week of my internship I have yet to start getting into the thick of the work I will be doing. On Thursday the 15th, the other interns and I met with some staff from the VLP to discuss the first work we will be doing, that being transferring metadata from the VLP website to the National Cemetery Association’s Veterans Legacy Memorial website. However, since as previously stated I have yet to get into the thick of my work here yet, I shall instead use this first post to introduce myself as well as my research interests and what I hope to get out of my time at the VLP.  To introduce myself further, as stated at the start ...
Read more

VLP week 13 (4/10/2026)

       Hello everyone, this is now week 13 of my internship with UCF’s Veterans Legacy Program. We are nearing the end folks, at least in terms of this blog, after this week's post there will only be 2 more. I feel like a broken record for saying this again but I am absolutely astounded with how quickly this year has gone by. Despite it being so close to the end it doesn’t feel like it for me, although that’s probably because I’ll be working with VLP over the summer, so in terms of that the only thing that will change will be me doing this blog. But without further ado, here is what has happened at VLP over this last week. As has been a trend over the past couple of weeks, much of what we have been doing at VLP has been in preparation for events over the summer. Again, I won’t talk about this much because I do not feel that it is within the scope of this blog, but one interesting thing I will bring up is one of the plans is for some VLP members to head over to San ...
Read more

VLP Week 2 (1/23/26).

     Hello everyone, this is now week 2 for my internship with UCF’s veteran’s legacy program. Even though I am still very early in my time at the VLP I feel this week has made me much more familiar with what I will be doing and what the work will be like for this internship. On Tuesday I attended my first weekly meeting where I got the chance to meet as well as introduce myself to the rest of the VLP team, it’s a relatively small team which I like and overall the mood for the meeting was fairly casual which helped me feel a little more comfortable during the meeting. To tell the truth, I was a little nervous at first, this was my first time ever attending a meeting like this and I honestly felt a little out of my depth at first, but as mentioned previously, the small team size and overall casual atmosphere meant that in time I had grown more comfortable, and overall I felt like this meeting did a really good job of making it more clear to me what type of work I can expec...
Read more