FFSS Internship (Fall) Week 12

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project:

This update will be very similar to last week because I have been working toward the same goal: standardizing and editing the Colmar Pocket Museum student submission packets. I have made more progress since last week, however, which is great! Like I explained in my previous post, the time it takes to edit these packets is the major roadblock in getting them finished quickly. The standardization process is slow, especially when students do a great job of including a lot of information! Although it has taken me much longer than I anticipated to complete these editing steps, the packets I have come close to finalizing look great, and I think the Museum will be very pleased with them. To give a frame of reference to how the timeline of editing the packets it, I have made it through one entire packet since last week, and I am currently half way through another packet. This is three (and a half) total packets that I have "finished" working on.Yet, the work goes on! And that is perfectly fine with me, because I enjoy the work I am assigned and I love being involved in this project. 

This week on Wednesday, we had a regularly scheduled team meeting between Dr. Lyons, myself, and the two graduate students. I was able to update them on my (slow) progress, which worked out great because I was able to ask questions relating to certain missing elements of the packets, and I learned how we will approach them from now on. Because the packets can vary greatly from one student submission to the next, we often find ourselves rethinking certain elements of the standardization process. For instance, today we made a decision on the headers we will be using from this point forward, which was a great opportunity for me to instruct everyone on how to create these headers (they are different from normal headers, as they require a lot of format manipulation on the already very formatted document template). I enjoyed being able to teach the team how to do this, because any opportunity to learn more and explain what I know is great. I may not know as much or be as experienced in this type of research project compared to the graduate students and especially Dr. Lyons, but I am very happy to contribute in any way to expanding our team's "tool belt," so to speak.  The meeting consisted of making sure everyone is standardized from this point forward, and setting a timeline for the next step towards finalizing the packets. 

Also in our meeting, we discussed the potential for presenting our work and project at the Florida Conference for Historians in January 2026. This conference is held in Gainesville, and it would be an amazing opportunity for me to travel for a conference to gain further knowledge and experience in this side of historical research and academia. We submitted an application to present a roundtable style panel on the Florida France Soldier Stories project from the different perspectives we offer, similarly to our presentation at the Florida Historical Society conference a few weeks ago. Hopefully we will hear back soon, and we will be able to receive some funding from SGA to travel for the conference. 

Until next week, I will be working more on the packets. 

See you next week!

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