Internship Photo Essay

The trip to internship. My internship partner is Mariah Morgan; she drives us to the internship site. She is a great person to work with because she keeps things fun and keeps me laughing. Between me, her, and our mentor Lindy we are able to get plenty of work done and learn tons of new things along the way. Since the three of us are not very advanced on making videos this project has brought a challenge to us but we continue to work hard and learn from our mistakes that we end up laughing about. Mariah is not only making the trip to internship with me but is also helping me complete the journey of experiencing internship.

A ton of custom scrubs for everyone. Dove Apparel is professional scrub clothing line for nursing students in college. Each scrub is hand made in a non sweat shop environment here in the United States. Unlike a normal retail store, Dove is an online store. Each customer must go online and order their product there. While ordering you have the option of customizing your scrub with a patch that represents your school! The picture above shows a uni-sex scrub. Dove makes many different scrubs such as vests, lab coats, and pants. You have a variety of colors to choose from and you can decide if you want a female version or male version of that particular product.

Independent culture, not cooperate vultures. “All Dove-branded poly/cotton uniforms are made in California, in licensed, worker-friendly environments. We work closely with the contractors and inspect their facilities regularly — and we demand a level of quality you won't see in other medical apparel.” Dove is a sweatshop free company and produces a higher quality product because of that. In the picture above it shows the sewing machine that is used everyday to customize a scrub. When my internship partner and I arrive at Dove there is a male seamstress who sits at the sewing machine and sings in a very loud voice as he sews on a patch or sews together a scrub. He makes for an interesting day because when the store gets too quiet and all of the sudden we will all of the sudden hear him singing “Crank Dat” and it brightens up the mood of the store. If Dove were sweatshop ran then we wouldn’t have the opportunity of hearing this man and his colorful personality. Things would not be as fun as they are there.

Teamwork makes the dream work. In order to run any successful business it takes a lot of teamwork and cooperation. The picture above illustrates a perfect example of teamwork as my mentors work together on exporting a file. Not only is it important to know the value of teamwork for this project but it is also important to know just as a skill that can be used in the work environment. Teamwork is one thing that is stressed a lot at Dove in order to keep the business running. Everyone works together which also makes for a great place to come in every morning as your job. Our mentor, Lindy, said “it’s a great place to work at. The atmosphere in general, the co-workers, everything. It’s just upbeat even when times are stressed everybody pitches in to help out, it’s just a good atmosphere.”

Wall of boxes. At my internship site there are several walls covered in boxes filled with the products that the company produces everyday. During immersion we got the opportunity to see all the different products held within those boxes in action while having a photo shoot for the up and coming website for Dove. While doing the photo shoot we got a better understanding of how each scrub should fit and why it is important to know your right size. There were a few models that would try on a scrub that was not their size and we saw how it did not fit them right. It gave us a better understanding as to why it is we are actually creating this “how to measure” video. Not only will the video help benefit the company but it will also allow us to learn new techniques in video making that can be applied to our school work.