VLP week 14 (4/17/2026).

  Hello everyone, this is now week 14 of my internship with UCF’s Veterans Legacy program. Well folks, this is the penultimate post for my blog, next week will be my last post. However, despite being so close to the end, these last two weeks have been and will continue to be very busy for me, as on top of finals there is plenty of work for me to do for VLP. So without further ado, let's discuss what I have been up to this last week.


To start things off, the VLP project which has captured most of my attention recently has been the teacher workshop at University High School. On Monday I met with the other VLP members whom I will be doing the workshop with so we could coordinate what each of us will be doing, I will be presenting a lesson plan regarding changes in psychology regarding PTSD, as it is useful to show how VLP materials can be used for classes outside of history. The workshop will be this upcoming Tuesday and we will have another meeting this upcoming Monday and I’ll continue to work on my part of the presentation. It’s a weird feeling thinking about going back to UHS, as I mentioned previously I went to this school, but I didn’t think that I would ever be back there. I wonder if I will see any teachers that I recognize, there were quite a few that I remember fondly, and I wonder if they would recognize me as well. But either way I shall let you all know how the workshop goes next week.


To give some other updates. This first one I won’t talk much on as it is for summer, but the planned trip to San Francisco has been called off as the family we were meant to work with has decided they wish to keep info on their veteran private. I would’ve liked to go but I respect their decision and there will be plenty of other work with VLP over the summer.


Finally, I have continued to work on the other 2 projects which I have been busy with for this semester. This week I again went to do scanning at the Museum of Military history in Kissimmee and I will be there again next week. Additionally I will be continuing work on formatting bios for VLM.


That's about all I have for this week. I hope all of you have a great weekend and I’ll see you next week for one last time.

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