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What I really like about MYEEP is that it gives youths an opportunity to learn things we don't learn at school and educates us with materials that will help us with our future adult life preparing us for the future.

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The lesson from CYC API Youth Summit about "Love Yourself" is something I will most likely remember about MYEEP for the rest of my life. Because I think that lesson has impacted me a lot and help me feel better about myself and have a better understanding about others. This lesson has also encouraged me to send positive vibes to the people around me whether its a stranger or a friend because it won't hurt you to make someone feel better and it's not hard to do so JUST DO IT! You never know if someone needs the positive vibes and it's a easy way to make someone's day a lot better.

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I thought MYEEP was a job program for youth's to prepare us for our future. For example, teaching us how to do certain jobs, how to behave appropriately in a workplace and giving us a opportunity to experience what and how a real workplace would be like. I also expected my job to be in a office like workplace because the friend who recommended this program to me worked in an office building doing office work.

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I joined MYEEP because it was a opportunity to meet new people, a chance to get out of my comfort zone, an opportunity to learn more about what schools don't teach us and develop skills that will help me in the future. It was a way to prepare myself for adulthood because even though I had a job before, it was really hard because I didn't know what to do or how to act with colleagues. So when I found out about this program, I thought perhaps this program may help me and teach me more of life outside of school and in the life of an adult, so I can be more prepare for jobs that I will be working at in the future.

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My goal at MYEEP was to develop skills that will help me better demonstrate and perform in my future career. And it was also a chance for me to develop communication skills because I am quite shy and nervous when it comes to speaking to others. So I wanted to use this opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and speak out more by communicating more with others and participating at meetings as well as meeting new people.

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A challenging part of the summer for me is being able to manage my time well because I had a bunch of work from Summer Geometry and it takes up most of my day so I often don't have enough time to get to MYEEP work and being able to put in full effort into the work I was assigned.  But since I didn't have Summer Geometry during the weekends, I tried my best to finish all the work that were assigned for Summer Geometry the day of so I would have the weekend to finish MYEEP work. It was challenging and stressful at first, but as time pass by it was a lot better and easier to do. I think through this challenge I have manage to develop time management skills that will assist me in organizing and planning my schedule to get work done in the future.

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My advice for future participants is to really focus on what is taught at MYEEP and give the work you are assigned your best effort because the things you learn at MYEEP will really help you prepare for the jobs you will be applying for in the future and plus, you are being paid to learn so take this opportunity seriously but it won't help anyone else but you.

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My next steps after MYEEP in the next 2 - 6 months are applying for more internships that will provide and educate me more like MYEEP does. I want to find more opportunities that will help me gain more experience, learn more about how things work, and most importantly I want to explore all that I can to see what I like doing so I can determine what I may want to do in the future.  In the next year, I want to start working again to gain real work experience in all areas and fields of work if I can because I will most likely be unsure of what I want to do in the future.

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Changes I would make if I were a CIT or a coordinator for a day.

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Changes I would make if I were a CIT or a coordinator for a day.

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If I were a CIT or a coordinator for a day I think I wouldn't want to change anything. I really like how everything is run because everything we learn in MYEEP, we have a chance to apply it to a real life situation. For example, during the interview and career weeks we learned about careers and how to make a resume then applied it to a life situation and gave us a chance to perform a mock interview to see what it is like and experienced it. At the end of the interview we even got feedback to see what we can do to improve and how we can perform better in future interviews. But I do want to add something to MYEEP if I were a CIT or a coordinator. I think adding a resources sheet of places and opportunities where participants can access to learn more about different fields of careers or where classes are available for them to learn more about subjects that are or may be helpful for adulthood. Such as taxes, how to pay taxes, how it works, where can we learn about real estate and more. I understand why MYEEP don't have resources like that because it is a job readiness program that helps participants ready for jobs and not life, but I think those resources for youth will be really helpful to prepare them for adult life because some youth's don't know where to get those resources and where to learn those necessary things.