My first week went pretty well and the time flew by. Thursday I traveled to Champaign, IL and I met two more interns that I will work with on my innovationREADY project. My team consists of two computer programmers, an intern from Strategic Resources and an intern from Property and Casualty Actuary. I’m not sure how the P&C Actuary will fit into my project but I will find out soon enough.

Unfortunately, my mentor fell behind on his work this week and I didn’t get to spend too much time with him, nor did I get any assignments from him. During the little bit of time I spoke with my mentor he gave me a good first impression, he seems friendly and passionate about his work. During our discussion I was informed that I might get to develop for Microsoft Sync near the end of the summer. I hope I get this opportunity, Microsoft Sync is a fairly impressive product.

Since I didn’t get much to do from my mentor I focused on iPad development. I played around with a couple of the new features introduced to the iPad SDK and I brainstormed ways I could start designing/prototyping our innovationREADY HR iPad recruiting app.