Outcome 1

3 Real World Jobs:

I could be an adventure based youth counselor for the Becket Family of Services in Hampton, NH. The
only qualifications that they have is the equivalent of 2 years of full time experience working with
children. They require you to have a valid drivers license and be 21 years old or older. They require you
to complete the background and pre-employment checks that they may run. They would also prefer if
you have some sort of student-centered leadership experience in the past, or experience with at-risk
youth. At Camp Tanuga, during pre-camp and post-camp, we had multiple school groups show up for
just a few days at a time. Some of those school groups are at risk youth from the Bear Hug foundation. I
have been working the past three summers as a camp counselor at Tanuga, so I have experience with
adolescent kids and at-risk youth. I also am above the age of 21 with a valid drivers license.

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Another job I could do is work as a LEAD Outdoor Adventure Guide in Los Angeles, CA. They are looking
for an adventure guide in the Los Angeles area. They are requiring qualifications in 2+ years of work with
children between kindergarten and high school. They would like you to have an understanding of
experiential education, outdoor education and/or leadership development curriculum and programs.
They want you to have experience in kayaking, or rock climbing, or mountain biking, or hiking. You have
to have a high school diploma and be acquiring your bachelors degree. They would also prefer if you
have your CDL and they would like you to be able to work during the week and weekends. The last three
years I have been working at Camp Tanuga where the age of the kids vary from 7-15 years old and you
work with everyone there. Because I am graduation with an Outdoor Recreation degree, I have an
exceptional understanding of experiential education. One of the courses we are required to take is
Wilderness Stewardship. During that course, the instructors dont really instruct us about what to do.
They only step in and help when they absolutely need to, otherwise, we have to learn how to work
together and get through the trip. During the same course, we are constantly learning about different
things in nature. We were assigned a topic and we had to come up with a presentation about said topic.
We were always learning on the trip, each day, we would change the Leader of the day and we all got
the opportunity to lead the group and choose a new spot to camp, or somewhere to adventure. Another
one of the classes you could take was an intro to rock climbing class where you learned how to teach
others how to rock climb; it was one of my favorite classes that I took while attending NMU. During the
class, you learned how to climb on different types of surfaces, how to belay and rappel, how to set
anchors, and how to pick which routes you wanted to climb based on difficulty. I have always hiked.
Working at Tanuga, gave me more experience as well. The last two summers, I was able to go on an
eight-day hiking trip across the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore where we hiked 37 of the 42 miles.
This past summer, I was able to go to Isle Royale National Park for ten days where we hiked 53 miles
throughout the island. Throughout my time at NMU, my friends and I would occasionally take a 2-3 day
hiking trip somewhere in the U.P. It changed every time. We rarely stayed at the same place twice.
Some trips, we would take our kayak/canoes out and just paddle to an island on a lake or paddle down
the lakeshore until we found somewhere we wanted to camp. I have already graduated with my high
school diploma, and after Saturday, I will have officially graduated with my bachelors degree in Outdoor
recreation Leadership and Management. I currently dont have a CDL, but I do have my chauffeur
license.

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The third job I could get would be as a Kayak/Naturalist Guide at Shurr Adventures in Everglade, FL. They
require you to have a first aid certificate, but will give preference to someone with WFA or WFR
certifications first. They would also require you to have a college degree, it would be a plus if you had an
Outdoor Education degree. They would like you to also be a birder, or be willing to learn about the birds
and their calls in the area. They would also like you to know how to clean boats and gear. They would
like you to be able to know how to pass within two feet of an alligator. You need to be able to back up a
15 person van and trailer. You need to be able to kayak for 8 hours a day and paddle for around 10-12
miles a day. At my summer camp, I taught kayaking and we would kayak around our lake every day.
They require you to be able to pick up 60-80 pounds multiple times per day. You need to know how to
read a map, compass, and chart, which is something we learned to do in our Wilderness Stewardship
class. I also learned how to read a map and compass when I was in Boy Scouts. On their website, it says
that they will provide you with a 2-3 week course where you will be trained in everything you need to
do. Once you pass the course, it often will be just you and your guest. I worked on a farm my whole life,
so we had many different animals, which means multiple bags of food for each breed. Since my sisters
werent strong enough to pick up the 80-100 pound bags of food, I had to move them all when and
where we needed to. Working on the farm also meant moving animals from farm to farm. I would have
to back the truck up to a livestock trailer, put the animals in the trailer, then back the trailer up to where
it was needed. I have always been fascinated by birds and I love to learn about them and their calls.
After Saturday, I will have graduated with an Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management degree,
which would easily fulfil their requirement. I have been trained in First Aid, CPR/AED, and WFR courses
and have current certifications in all of these areas.

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Outcome 2A:

Abstract Knowledge

Abstract knowledge, to me, is the ability to think beyond what is directly in front of you. Its the
ability to think about the same thing in different ways. One of our projects in RE 410 was to go in nature
and write a poem or some sort of writing about anything. Now thinking about that, all the poems would
be different and in no way related. We all have our own thought processes and our own individual
experiences with nature. We were all effected differently, which is why/how our writings were so
different. I never really thought about how we all had the same project and no one project was anything
like another one, until we had to turn our final projects in and put them on display. I started thinking
back on the projects we did through the course of this semester and I realized how we all had the same
assignment, but no one had the same projects. Some were similar, but they had come to their idea in
completely different ways. I find it crazy that that is how it happened, now that I think about it. I have
embedded my poetry assignment in this section because I think it best represents my use of abstract
knowledge to create a piece of artwork unlike anything I have ever created before.
 Whats to Come

We were walking through the trees

Just my friends and I
Trying to find a place
To watch the night sky.

We were lost
With no idea where to go
We figured with a drink
We could wait for the snow.

We have been the best of friends

Ever since I could remember
Im not sure whats going to happen
Come graduation in December.

Theyre my adventure buddies

We do everything together
Camping, drinking, and sports
Were just a few things our bodies could weather.

From snowboarding and cross country skiing

To kayaking, snorkeling, and tubing
All the memories we made
Just think of what is to come.
Outcome 2B:
Interpersonal, Written, and Oral Communication
Oral and Interpersonal Skills: In RE 381 we had to work with a group to give a guided tour about
something in the area. My group and I decided to give a tour of Presque Isle, but talk about everything
that had happened around the area, such as ship wrecks, the ore docks, and the breakwall. In 381, I was
originally scared of working with other people to give a presentation. I was never truly good at working
with other people or talking in front of my peers. The final tour that we had to present, we had to work
with at least one other person to give a tour of an area in Marquette and give an interpretive talk about a
topic. I decided to talk about the Ore Docks and how important they were/are to Marquette and its
history. This was the final talk we had to present. I had already gained a lot of experience talking in front
of my peers, but not as much working with other people. I actually enjoyed working with my groupmates
on this project, it went very smoothly and we were able to present our GWT to our peers. I wanted to
work on some things when I was presenting, so I gave myself goals at the bottom of this assignment. I
have highlighted all the work I did in this paper in red lettering.

Title of GWT: Presque Isle Is Worthwhile

Location of GWT: Presque Isle Marquette, MI
Theme of GWT: Presque Isle Park is a unique major historical location in Marquette.
Interpreters Names: John Voich, Mike Hollenbeck, Dale Stark

1. Agency & Audience

a. Name of the Agency. Marquette Regional History Museum
b. Mission of the Agency. We believe the preservation of the cultural and physical history
of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the
future. The Marquette Regional History Center not only maintains exhibits, artifacts and a
research library, it is a forum for engaging the community and creating links between
people.
c. Description of Audience. Our audience will be a small group of college students and our
instructor.

2. Resource
a. Presque Isle Park
b. Tangibles: paved road/walkway, lake superior, Break Wall, Ore Dock, lighthouse
c. Intangibles: walking, sightseeing
d. Universal concepts: history, relativeness
e. We will be utilizing the Ore Dock, Breakwall, lighthouse and, Lake Superior directly to
interpret, which are some of the tangibles listed. The intangibles walking and sightseeing are
some of the things you will be doing while learning history about them.
Explain how you have woven the tangibles to the intangibles in your theme and GWT.
3. Organization of GWT
a. Topic - History of Presque Isle Park
b. Sub-Topic(s): Presque Isle Dock, Ship Wrecks, and The Break Wall and Lighthouse
c. Focus: Historical, Cultural
d. Theme: Presque Isle Park is surrounded with significant history to Marquette.
a. The topic and theme of our guided walk and tour directly relates to our location in many
aspects. Many people come to visit Presque Isle since it is so close to town, also Presque Isle
Harbor being one of the busiest ports on Lake Superior providing Iron ore for many places. So
with these things in mind it really does make Presque Isle unique and Historical to Marquette.
e. Purpose of the GWT The purpose of this guided walk and tour is for people to see, and
hear some of the history of Presque Isle park in order to get a better understanding of the
historical significance it has to Marquette.
f. Body of the GWT. (Complete the following for each stop. This is your information/content
outline; use complete declarative sentences throughout. GWTs should have 3-5 main
points/sub-themes which serve determine your stops. This section should be organized in
outline format and clearly identify the main points/sub-themes that will support your theme.).

a. 1. Staging Period location,Dale Mike John , materials needed. This is where we will
have a sign with the name of the tour letting everyone know where we are at. This is the
initial gathering spot where everyone can see us in order for our tour to begin. At this
point it is acceptable to tell them how long the program will last, and any special
considerations that they may need to take, for example going to the bathroom or
anything else they may need to do in preparation for the tour.
B. 2. Introduction location,Dale, John, Mike materials needed, information to be covered
This is where we will introduce our program to the audience. This is where we will introduce
the agency that we are working with as well as our theme, and the key points that people can
look forward to seeing in our tour.
C. 3. Stop 1 Near the water closer to the Ore Dock, Dale Stark, I will have a jar of the
Taconite Pellets and I will have my computer to show a video of them filling the cargo ships
with the Pellets
i. Focusing Statement - For this I will be focusing on the Ore Dock and everything it does for
the community, why its located right next to Presque Isle, and some basic facts and
information about the dock.
ii. Iron ore was discovered in 1844 in the Ishpeming and Negaunee area. They used
Marquette as their main shipping port since it is only 20 miles away. They ship the iron ore via
railroad cars and they fill the pods of the dock with the rail cars as well. The dock was built in
1911, and moves approx. 9.5 to 10 million tons of Iron Ore a year from Marquette to Sault St.
Marie, Ontario in Canada. They ship 70% of what they send out there, and SSM creates steel
with what they get. Presque Isle Dock is 1250 feet long, 60 feet wide and 75 feet tall and can
store 50000 tons of iron ore pellets.
Taconite Pellets are actually what is shipped, not the iron ore itself. Made of 70% iron ore,
mainly shipped to Sault St. Marie, Ontario and made into steel. Each chute is loaded with about
20 tons of Pellets and the first mate loads the cargo ship evenly to decrease stress on the ship.
It was the first dock of its type built in the U.P. I will also be showing a video of a cargo ship
being filled with the Taconite Pellets to show just a small process that they go through when
filling the ships. There is a second ore dock in Marquette in the Lower Harbor, it was open from
1932 and shut down in 1971. Its slightly smaller than the Presque Isle Dock, only stretching 970
feet long
iii. Thematic Connector- It connects to the theme because of how close it is to Presque Isle
and how historical it is to everything. As Mike will say later, most of the shipwrecks in the Lake
are or have gone through Presque Isle Dock.
iv. Transition- I will talk about the ships that go through the dock and how they could
potentially crash, causing a shipwreck in Superior. It leads perfectly into what Mike is talking
about

D. 4. Stop 2 location, Mike Hollenbeck, materials needed, Tablet for photos and a song.
i. Focusing Statement: For this stop I will be focusing on shipwrecks. 95% of shipwrecked
freighters have gone through the ore docks of presque and lower harbor by Maki field. I will
weigh heavily on the Edmund Fitzgerald, as this is a ship all can relate to. I will be leading all of
these into John's stop of the GWT.
ii. On June 8, 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was launched on the River Rouge from the Great
Lakes Engineering Works. With that, the Fitzgerald becomes the largest ship to sail on the
Great Lakes, a title she would hold for eleven years. Captain Ernest McSorley was a veteran
mariner with over 40 years of experience on the Great Lakes and oceans. He had commanded
nine ships before taking the helm of the Fitzgerald in 1972. McSorley had just turned 63 a
month and a half before the Fitzgerald would make her last run and was planning to retire at
the end of the 1975 shipping season. On November 9, 1975, the Fitzgerald set out on her final
trip from the Northern Railroad Dock No.1 in Superior, Wisconsin heading for a routine trip to
Detroit, Michigan. During the day, the weather had gotten vicious causing 90 mph winds and
30 foot waves. The Arthur M. Anderson was traveling behind the Fitzgerald as they made their
way across Lake Superior. The two ships had kept in contact with each other, reporting various
damage the respected vessel obtained. On November 10th, at 3:30 PM, the Fitzgerald reported
some topside damage, missing railings and a list and asked the Anderson to stay with him until
Whitefish Point.
Storms that claimed multiple ships include the Mataafa Storm in 1905 and the Great Lakes
Storm of 1913. Wreckage of SS Cyprus, a 420-foot ore carrier that sank on October 11, 1907,
during a Lake Superior storm in 77 fathoms of water, was located in August 2007. All but
Charles G. Pitz of Cyprus's 23 crew perished . The ore carrier sank in Lake Superior on her
second voyage, while hauling iron ore from Superior, Wisconsin, to Buffalo, New York. Built in
Lorain, Ohio, Cyprus was launched August 17, 1907. In 1918 the last warships to sink in the
Great Lakes, French minesweepers Inkerman and Cerisoles, vanished in a Lake Superior storm.
With 78 crewmembers dead, their sinking marked the largest loss of life on Lake Superior to
date.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was the last major shipwreck on Lake Superior, sinking 15 nautical miles
from Whitefish Point in a storm on November 10, 1975. The wreck was immortalized by Gordon
Lightfoot in his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". All 29 crew members perished
when the ship sank, and no bodies were ever recovered. Edmund Fitzgerald was swallowed up
so intensely by Lake Superior that the 729-foot ship split in half; her two pieces are
approximately 170 feet apart in a depth of 91 fathoms 4 feet. According to legend, "Lake
Superior seldom gives up her dead". This is because of the unusually low temperature of the
water, estimated at under 36 F on average around 1970. Normally, bacteria feeding on a
sunken decaying body will generate gas inside the body, causing it to float to the surface after a
few days. However, Lake Superior's water is cold enough year-round to inhibit bacterial growth,
and bodies tend to sink and never resurface. This is alluded to in Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the
Edmund Fitzgerald" ballad. Fitzgerald adventurer Joe MacInnis reported that, in July 1994,
explorer Frederick Shannon's Expedition 94 to the wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald discovered and
filmed a man's body near the port side of her pilothouse, not far from the open door, "fully
clothed, wearing an orange life jacket, and lying face down in the sediment.
iii. The involvement of my whole speech is to connect the various components of the
shipping industry, to the lighthouses and the ore dock. People have fascinations with
shipwrecks, and mother superior.
iv. My speech gives background as to the purpose of having a breakwall, lighthouse and an
ore dock. And leads perfectly into transition for johns portion of the GWT.
e. 4. Stop 3 In front of breakwall, John Voich, materials needed
i. Focusing Statement: For this stop I am focusing on the breakwater, breakwall, and
lighthouse. These are three pieces that may be physically connected but also come together
making Presque Isle historical.
ii.
Somewhere in between 1897 and 1902 the breakwater was placed and extended from the
southern point of Presque Isle, which was said to be 1,216 feet. The breakwater is different
from the breakwall and is considered to be all of the rocks that come after the breakwall and all
the way down to the light at the end. 1938 Lighthouse Service announced plans for an
unattended light to be placed at the end of the extension of the breakwater. The breakwater is
extended 1,600 feet for more added protection. Along with the addition of the new light, a
keepers dwelling and boathouse are to be built. 1941 a fog signal, new light and radiobeacon
are to be established at the outermost end of the newly made Presque Isle Breakwater. These
new items were to be placed on an enclosed steel tower to protect them from the elements.
The fog signal is an air diaphone that gives off a double blast sound every 20 seconds. The
marker radio beacon also has an interesting pattern. It is set to go in a set of five 12 second
dashes that is then accompanied by 10 seconds of silence.
iii. The addition of the Breakwater, and Lighthouse along with the radio beacon and flashing
light are very important to guide ships coming into Presque Isle Harbor. Each piece directly
relates to our theme that Presque Isle is a unique major historical location in Marquette.
iv. Transition: I can end my stop with the fact that Presque Isle Harbor Lighthouse was
added to the National register of Historic places this year 2016 and that the Ore dock is
Michigans last operating ore pocket dock, which ships around 9 million tons of ore each year.
This just shows how each component of Presque Isle is historical and amazing. At this point I
will say something along the lines of We have one more stop next at the gazebo that will
conclude our program for today. This will let the audience know that the Guided walk and tour
will be over shortly.
f. Conclusion location, Mike H, John V, and Dale S materials needed
The conclusion is where Mike Dale and I will wind down the tour and conclude with some final
thoughts and reestablish our theme. This is also a good time to mention a key aspect of each
stop.
f. Limitations (of interpreting this theme, resource, and location)
The resource may be hard for people to grasp. We will not be physically right at the Ore dock or
right at the end of the breakwater where the lighthouse is so our audience may not be able to
have what we are talking about right in front of them.
4. Interpretive Techniques
a. List the interpretive techniques you plan to use and why each of these techniques are an
appropriate technique for your audience and resource.
John-I plan on using a timeline to interpret the breakwater and lighthouse. I think it will be
effective in getting people to see how Presque has evolved over time creating history.
b. Enjoyable. Explain how you are designing your GWT to be enjoyable. (Be specific). We are
designing the GWT to be engaging. The information provided at each of our stops will show our
audience how it is connected and has shaped Presque Isle of Marquette. The ore dock,
lighthouse, breakwater, and shipwrecks all play an important role in shaping the history of
Presque Isle.
c. Relevant. Explain how you are designing your GWT to be meaningful and personal to your
audience. (Be specific). History of Presque is relevant to our audience because it is one of the
busiest ports in the Upper Peninsula and is just minutes from town. It would be crazy to think
what Presque Isle would have been like without the ore dock, lighthouse, or breakwater and
the addition of these things shows how Presque Isle has changed.
5. Objectives
a. For you as the interpreter (Use ToVOT format. Example: to speak with confidence by
looking participants in the eyes when I talk. Make these specific, measurable and meaningful to
you. You will need to report on your achievement of them.)
Dale- To not use filler words such as, and that stuff, or things like that or like or um
Dale- To avoid crossing my arms and try not to take a huge pause during my part of the talk
John- to avoid periods where I am silent and am looking for what to say next.
John- To make direct eye contact with my audience.
b. For your audience. At least ninety percent of the audience will be able to correctly identify
three different aspects that make Presque Isle historical and unique. During our talk, our
audience will be able to remember at least half of the stops that we go to and the information
that is presented
(Use ABCD format: Audience, Behavior, Condition, and Degree. Example: Ninety percent of
audience will be able to accurately identify three minerals when asked to do so during my
interpretive talk.)
6. Accuracy - References (Use a standard reference. Give full citations.)
a. Topic references
"Ore Docks." Travel Marquette Michigan Comments. Marquette County, 13 Mar. 2015. Web. 08
Nov. 2016.
Presque Isle Harbor Breakwater Lighthouse. LighthouseFriends. N/A, n.d. Web. 06
Nov. 2016
Marquette Regional History Center Home Page. Marquette Regional History Center. N/A, n.d.
Web. 07 Nov. 2016.

b. Interpretive process references-

Dale- I will be using questions, personal stories, and a story to describe the life of taconite
pellets being made
John- I will use a timeline to show the history of the breakwall and lighthouse as a way to
convey the information to my audience.

Written Skills: My writing skills have never been good. I dont have a large vocabulary and sometimes I
use words incorrectly or at the wrong times. Sometimes I dont even know what a word actually means
and Ill still use it. Throughout my career at NMU, I have become better at writing though. I think my
favorite piece of writing was actual during my final semester at NMU. We had an assignment where we
needed to write about 4 different sections of a book and relate it to nature and our lives. I wrote this paper
so differently from every other paper I wrote that my teacher thought I had someone else write it for me. I
was confused when she asked me about it. I didnt know what I did wrong or if I had done anything
wrong. She had the paper and read two of the paragraphs from it, then she read a paragraph from my
internship notebook and I could easily see the difference in writing. She asked my why they were so
different, why my freeplay writing paper was so much different than any other piece of writing I had
turned in over the years. I was speechless at first because I could see where she was coming from but I
didnt know what to say. I started to think about it and I realized that I was writing about myself in the
responses sheet. I realized that I was thinking back on times in my past that played a huge part of who I
am today and I was putting it on paper; something I had never done before. Thats why my paper was so
different than that of anything Ive ever written before. It took me four and a half years of college to
produce my first decent paper and she told me that I surprised her. Something I never expected to hear
from a teacher, especially about a paper that I produced. Im proud that I finally was able to create
something that I can be proud of. Even my poem from earlier, I never was able to write poetry on that
level, and I was able to surprise myself with it. Nonetheless, here is my favorite piece of work that I
created through my career at NMU.
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Outcome 2C:
Technical Skills
My technical skills involve current CPR/AED, Lifeguarding, WFR, Hunters Saftey, First Aid, and Scuba
Diving certifications as well as a Chauffeurs Drivers License. I was actually able to use my WFR
certification over the summer. We were on Isle Royale, about 3 days into our 10-day trip. It was me and
one other leader with six 14-15 year olds. It was my first time on the island, as well as the kids first time
on the island. The other leader had been there many times before. We had established that I would lead us
down the trails to each site and the other leader would be in the back because he was a much slower hiker
than everyone else. Usually he would be about 5-10 minutes behind us once we got to our campsite for
the night, but this one day, we only had a 3 mile hike or so and he was about 40 minutes behind us, which
I thought was strange. He got to the site and I asked if he was okay, and he didnt say anything, he didnt
even look up at us. He was drenched in sweat, but that was normal. It was a hot day and we had 65 pound
packs on, so I thought that was fine. I let him set up his tent and then he set up his hammock and he just
laid in that. I went over and asked him if he was okay again and he told me that he was struggling to catch
his breath and his heart rate was well over 140 beats a minute. I told him to lay there and relax for a bit
and I would go get him more water. He had gone through 2.5 liters of water on such a short hike, but he
drank a lot of water anyway. When I came back up with the water, we took his pulse again and it was still
above 140, and this was about 30 minutes later. He still hadnt caught his breath so I decided to go down
to the dock that was at the site and see if anyone was there to help. There was a coast guard boat there
with staff onboard taking a lunch break. I told them the situation and they came up to take his blood
pressure and assess him further. They decided that it would be best if they called the Marshall on the
island to come and talk with him to see what we could do. The Marshall showed up about 4 hours after he
had first shown up to the site. They took his blood pressure and his heart rate and they were still elevated
well above what they should have been for someone who has only laid down for 4 hours. They decided
that they would come back in the morning and if he heart rate and blood pressure hadnt dropped to
normal by the morning, they would take him to Rock Harbor in case he had a more serious problem. He
ended up having to go to Rock Harbor in the morning and I called the camp to see if we were all going to
leave or to see if I was going to continue the trip with the kids. Camp told me to keep going on the trip
with the kids and to be careful and not do anything that could put everyone in danger. We ended up
finishing the trip and the other leader was fine. He stayed in rock harbor until we got back to him on the
8th day. He told me he was proud of the way I was able to lead the kids on an island which none of us had
ever been on and to do it alone was impressive. I was proud of myself and when we got back to camp, my
boss talked to me about it and he was impressed that I was able to keep it together and continue the trip
alone.
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Outcome 2D:
Understanding and appreciation of leisure
Throughout my time here at NMU, I have been on many adventures and campouts. My friends and I were
constantly outside doing anything and everything. From your basic overnighter, to long hikes in the
woods to the point we were lost. From jumping off Black Rocks to scuba diving under people that were
jumping above us. From a simple trail ride to snowboarding at Mt. Bohemia. We have done everything
and then some. We have had countless nights where we would just sit around a fire and relax and talk and
enjoy one anothers company. My appreciation of leisure has come through my friends. We do everything
together, I wouldnt be the same person I am today without them. Occasionally I would go out and
adventure by myself. My favorite adventure that I did alone was hiking Hogsback in the fall. The colors
were beautiful and the birds were chirping and the wind made the trees move in a way that I cant
describe. I must have sat on top of that mountain for four or five hours just listening to everything; I was
appreciating everything around me.
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NRPA/AALR Competency:
Conceptual Foundations:
Throughout my career at NMU, my definition of leisure went from not knowing what it meant, to
understanding almost everything about leisure. Leisure to me is anything you do in your free time,
whether it be watching t.v. or going on a hike through the Porcupine Mountains. Anything and everything
that we do in our free time to me is leisure. I personally like to hang out with my friends when I have free
time. In the Marquette area, it seems like the natural thing to do for everyone is to go outside and
experience somethings they havent seen before, like the Munising falls or the Eben Ice Caves. There are
so many incredible things in and around Marquette that its not really surprising when people want to go
out and adventure or spend their leisure time outside in their natural surroundings.
Leisure Services Profession:
As I progressed through the ORLM program, I learned that I will always be a teacher. I will always be
teaching others about what I have learned and how they can do the same things I have, but maybe better,
or easier than I did.

This is my Intro to Rock Climbing class, when we went to Devils Lake. I didnt know as much about
Rock Climbing as other people did, but I learned from them and grew as a teacher of Rock Climbing. I
am now confident in my ability to Rock Climb and teach it. While we were in the class, we learned how
to pick proper anchor point, how to belay, how to rappel, how to teach people how to climb. Before the
class, I had only climbed in a gym and all you have to do there is follow the tape. When you climb on a
real rock face, you sometimes cant see your next hold or footing. You as a belay have to be able to tell
your climber where their next hold is or where a better hold is so they can continue up the wall. I had two
excellent teachers for the class and I still keep in contact with them to this day. I still ask them questions
about climbing and I always will.

Leisure Services Delivery System:

Through RE 381 and 382, I learned that not everyone learned the same way. I did an interpretation of how
Sea Lamprey effect Lake Superior, which may have had more of an effect because everyone was
somehow related to Lake Superior, whether it be living so close to it or actually swimming in it normally.
I was able to use an interpretive talk to promote and show how dangerous Sea Lamprey could be to Lake
Superior. I was able to make 10-15 more people aware of the problems that could occur if Sea Lamprey
make it into Superior. To make this talk possible, I did research online, but it didnt seem like enough.
Thankfully, Marquette has its own Sea Lamprey organization where their job is to stop Lamprey from
making it into Superior. I contacted them and they actually took me out to some of their traps and taught
me how they worked and about all the precautions that they are taking to stop Lamprey from getting into
Superior.
Programming Strategies:
Throughout the program, I have had to lead many different types of activities. In the Wilderness
Stewardship course, we all had to take turns being the LOD (Leader of the day), in which we would lead
the hike and then usually have our presentations for the class for the day. For my presentation, I had to
teach the class about two popular birds in the area. While being LOD you were required to take the lead.
You were in charge for the day. Its like we were the instructors. Everyone would listen to you and you
would take suggestions, but ultimately it was your choice where we went and how we would problem
solve to get to our destination. While I was LOD, we were given the task of hiking to the Dead River
Basin. We only needed our daypacks and a map and compass. We were so close to making it, but we
ended up turning around. When we got back to our camping spot, I gave my presentation about two very
popular birds in the area.
Gray Jay

Short and fat little bird

Mostly gray with a little black behind its head
Quietest of the Jays
Eat just about anything
o Uses sticky saliva to stick food to tree branches for winter storage
o Believed that thats why they stay around during the winter
Live in evergreen forests, especially spruce trees throughout northern US and Canada
Has its eggs over the winter instead of may-june like most other birds
o Usually has between 2-5 eggs
Palentologist discovered gray jay bones from 18000 years ago
Close relative, Siberian Jay, completes the ring around the northern hemisphere of the birds
Have been seen eating meat
o Saw landing on a moose and eating the ticks and witnessed stealing and eating a baby
bat away from its mother
Think plumage on its body, fluffs up and covers legs and feet when its very cold out, even
nostrils are covered
Oldest one on record was 17 years 2 months, caught and rereleased in 2002

Pileated Woodpecker

Very large, size of a crow

All black body with white neck and a red crown on his head
Drill instinctive rectangular holes to eat carpenter ants, their favorite food
o Can cause trees to break in half
o Once done with that hole, other birds will use the hole as a home
They live in very old parts of the woods to use the old dead standing trees for homes
o Can live in younger forests as well, will try to find the biggest tree to live in
Birds are monogamous till death and stay in territory year round to defend it
 Oldest bird on record was 12 years 11 months when it was rereleased
Usually takes 3-6 weeks to make a home for the bird
o Will lay 3-5 eggs during nesting time
o Nesting hole can be anywhere for 10-24 inches deep
o Rarely used for more than one year
Birds have a long barbed tongue to eat the beetle larvae from dead trees
o Also follow carpenter ant tunnels through tree to eat them

Assessment, Planning/Evaluating:

Almost every lesson we teach to our classmates, we have to do evaluations. We are evaluated by our
peers, and we also evaluate our peers about their topic, and sometimes we evaluate ourselves about
how we think we did on our topic. My entire college career is based on learning. Learning new things, or
learning from mistakes. We are evaluated so that we can learn how we can become better. It gives us
new experiences and a different perspective from which we cant see ourselves. I always have struggled
to talk in front of my peers, Im not sure why but I get extremely nervous when I have to present in front
of them. The evaluations we do are for our benefit so that we can learn how to grow as a presenter.

Evaluators Name: Dale Stark

Interpreters Name: Mike Hollenbeck Date: 12-1-2016

Character/Personification: Lake Superior

1. Provide a detailed description and reflection of your observations of your peers interpretive
program.

Mike was a Marine Biologist that talked about Lake Superior and how it was created. He had an image
on the projector that he used to show where Superior was and how big it was. He asked the kids lots of
questions to keep them interested and involved. They started running into each other with the chairs
and he used that as an example of the tectonic plates and how they move around which I thought was
clever. He used a distraction to his advantage and taught them something. He had drawings on the
whiteboard of what a glacier would do and how it moved. Then he had the kids draw all the lakes
because they all grabbed markers and got distracted with those. He continued to ask them questions to
try to keep their interest, but you could tell that they were losing interest as all kids do at that age. He
thanked them for coming and listening to him and participating and then they left. I thought Mike did a
very good job at trying to keep the kids involved as much as possible even with all the distractions that
they kept creating. There was one point in time when he just stopped talking and waited for the kids to
calm down which I really liked, instead of continuing on, he waited for them to listen so they would pay
attention.

2. Include your answers the following questions:

a. What is something the interpreter did well during their
Characterization/Personification?
I liked how he waited for the kids to quiet down so that he could continue and I liked how he used the
distractions that they were doing as part of his talk.

b. What is something the interpreter could do to improve their Characterization program?

He accidentally broke character right at the very beginning of his talk when he started talking about his
own life. One of the kids said something about the war and him being a Marine and he said that he is
actually in the Coast Guard which was part of his life and not his characters.

c. Which guidelines for characterizations do you think were used effectively? How?

Mike stayed in character the whole time except for at the very beginning but he realized that he did it
and changed it. He stayed in character by asking the kids lots of questions like a biologist would, he used
sciency language to keep the kids interested.

d. Provide an example of when or how the audience were engaged by the interpreter
during the program. If the audience did not seem engaged, suggest how the interpreter
could make this resource more engaging and relatable to their audience.

The audience seemed engaged when he asked them to draw what all the lakes looked like and how they
were created/formed. They really liked learning about the tectonic plates and the glaciers.

Reflect on your experience delivering your Characterization / Personification (CP) then answer the
following questions:

1. What did you enjoy the most about delivering your Characterization/ Personification?

I enjoyed answering all the kids questions and listening to their stories about snowboarding or anything
like that. I liked being able to talk to them and relate to them about everything snowboarding wise.

2. What was the most challenging part of the Characterization/Personification?

The most challenging part was trying to keep the second group of kids paying attention even though
they had no interest in snowboarding.

3. How was this interpretive product different for you than the other two products (IT, GWT) you
had previously done?

It was different in the fact that I couldnt really follow the order of what I had planned. They would ask
me questions about everything and I would have to answer them. This talk was a lot more of a go with
the flow instead of the other talks which were more structured.

4. What did you learn about yourself through implementing the Characterization/Personification
program?

I learned that I am good at impromptu talks because the kids forced me to be. I learned that even in
front of kids, I will forget facts and information that I know.

5. What did you learn about interpretation by implementing your CP program?

I learned that the children will believe whatever you tell them. They are exactly like sponges, anything
you tell them, they will believe is true.

6. What do you think is your strength as an interpreter?

My strength as an interpreter is that I can think quickly on my feet and I am able to relate people to my
topics.

7. What is your area for development?

My area for development is that I need to learn to be less nervous and more confident in my speaking
skills.

8. What did you learn about interpretation by observing your peers CP programs?

I learned that everyone has different styles of teaching and ways to keep people interacted.

9. Any final comments regarding the CP programs.

I had a lot of fun with this part of the class, I love hanging out with the kids and seeing how they react to
everyones different topics.

Administration/Management:
We were required to take a marketing class through NMU so that we were able to understand how much
things cost and what it would require to start up our own buisness if we so chose to. By taking this class,
we had to make a table that would help us to understand how big of a loan we would need to take out to
start a new company. When taking this class, they wanted us to understand how much work and how
expensive it is to start a business. We learned how to work through a business plan and about interest and
everything that is involved with a loan. Below is a table that we made while in the marketing class. We
were also required to take an online class where we learned how to use different programs on our
computers that we would be able to utilize in our futures. With technology moving the way it is, classes
about computers and programs are becoming more needed than ever.

Status Level Rentals Membership Membership

6 Month 1 Year

Fixed Costs: X $40000 $40000

Salaries

Building $3300 $3300 $3300

Insurance $7500 $7500 $7500

Variable Costs: $11000 X X

Wages
 Gear Depreciation $12000 $12000 $12000

Gear Management $1000 $1000 $1000

Membership Revenue $75/day $1050 $3600

Gross Profit $50000 $50000 $50000

Beginning Gear $22000 $22000 $22000

Expenses

Legislative and Legal Aspects:

For some of our presentations, we were required to make a Risk Management Plan so that we understood
the risks that we would be putting our participants through, but also so that we could explain the risks to
our participants. We made these so that we as instructors would be able to see the potential dangers that
our participants were in and so that we would know how to react if something did happen. We learned
about the IRB in RE 467 when we had to do research about some sort of problem. One of the groups
actually sent their research to the IRB so that they could actually do their research. They found out that
the process take forever. They sent their project in in the beginning of November and didnt hear back
until early December. I learned that if I want to do some sort of research and go through the IRB that I
will have to be patient and cooperative.

Risk to Audience

Location and Risk Assessment How to avoid/reduce risk Can

NMU Beach- Cold Weather Tell the class to wear warm clothes Email the lab group YES
NMU Beach- Rain Tell the class to bring a rain coat Email the lab group YES
NMU Beach- Foot traffic and cars Keep my presentation away from the YES
road
Risk to Site/Resources

Location and Risk Assessment How to avoid/reduce risk Can

NMU Beach- Littering Make sure we clean up after one YES
another
Risk/Safety Assessment Worksheet (RE 381_F14)

This Risk Assessment is from RE 381 when I did an interpretation of how Sea Lamprey effect Lake
Superior.
Outcome 4
I have current lifeguarding, CPR/AED, First Aid, Scuba, Wilderness First Responder, and Hunter Saftey
certifications. These all enable me to be able to work in my field. I want to be a hiking guide and most
companies will require a Wilderness First Responder certification to be able to do that. I feel confident in
my ability to remain calm in an emergency situation and I know that I can do what needs to be done. I
havent had any serious injuries occur while hiking or anything, but I have done minor first aid for
different situations. Over the summer I had to help my counselor because he couldnt catch his breath and
his heart rate and blood pressure wouldnt go down. I remained calm and kept my campers calm as well
which was harder to do than I expected.

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Section 2: Liberal Arts

Division 1: Formal Communication
For this liberal art, we learned how to organize our thoughts and pick out which ideas we wanted to use.
We also learned how to become better writers. I personally have never been very good at writing, but I
manged to get through it. I took a Sign Language class this semester and we had to write a paper about a
famous person that was either deaf or hard of hearing. I decided to write my paper about thomas Edison. I
had no idea that he was hard of hearing and yet he still managed to have almost 1100 patents to his name.
There was so much information about him that I had to pick out what I wanted to write about and use in
the paper. All my years of college and practice enabled me to be able to work on this paper.

Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the youngest of his seven siblings.
His mother, Nancy, was a school teacher and his father, Samuel, was a politician who had been exiled
from Canada for being too passionate and trying to influence too big of a change. He and his family lived
in Milan, Ohio until he was seven when they moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He attended a public
school for a total of 12 weeks before being removed and homeschooled. He was homeschooled with the
books from his mom and dads library.

Thomas started working for the Grand Trunk Railroad company at the age of just 12 years old.
He sold newspapers and magazines until he learned enough about telegraphy to work as an operator in
the local office near them. In 1862 he started his operator job and from then till 1867 he traveled the
Midwest, studied and experimented with the technology of telegraphs. He started to become enthused
with electrical science and that is when his ideas started to form.
 In 1868 he started his career as an inventor. Working alone at first, he started to work for major
telegraph companies and created his own manufacturing companies in New Jersey. He soon became a
well-known inventor, creating stock tickers, fire alarms, sending messages on one line and his most
famous invention was a quadruplex telegraph that sent two messages at once on the same line.

1876, Thomas Edison built a freestanding laboratory where he would eventually come up with
his three greatest inventions. He was tasked with coming up with a telephone that was better than
Alexander Grahm Bells, in learning about this device, he discovered that he could record sound. Doing
so, he unveiled the phonograph in 1877. The phonograph was a device that could record sound and play
it back to you. In 1878, Edison started to work on a cheaper version of the lightbulb. He made it more
commercial by using tungsten instead of platinum. He spent 30 months trying to come up with this
revolutionary invention, but he finally did it. During these times, he improved his lightbulb and the
electric facility needed to power the lightbulbs. He worked until 1888 trying to improve the lightbulb
and the way to power it. In 1888, he started to concentrate on recording on wax cylinders with his
phonograph.

Form 1888 till 1893, Thomas worked on a motion picture camera with William Dickson, even
though through it all, Edison would receive full credit for inventing it. After this creation, he started to
look into something he started in 1879. He started to develop a new type of kiln and cement for building
new buildings and structures. His cement was used in the creation of Yankee Stadium, dams, and
bridges.

Thomas Edison died on October 18th, 1931. In his 84 years of life, he received 1,093 patents for
inventions; no other inventor has been close to close to a total. With all his inventions, he set up the
ability for the U.S. to start revolutionizing and evolving into the super power that we are today. His
inventions varied from just simply making minor improvements to something, to helping get America to
where it is today. His inventions ranged from telecommunications, electric power, recording sound,
movies, storage batteries, mining and cement mixtures. Thomas seemed like he did it all.

Thomas Edison was hard of hearing, not deaf. He was documented saying that he had not heard
a bird sing since he was 12 years old. There is a lot of controversy into how he actually became hard of
hearing. Some people say he lost his hearing during a train crash when someone saved his life by
grabbing him by the ears, in which he heard a popping noise in his ears. Scientists dont believe that
story, they think it was something more along the lines of scarlet fever when he was a child, along with
untreated middle ear infections. His father had the same hearing disability as Thomas did, so scientists
think it was a genetic disorder that he and his father had.

Thomas Edison had many quotes in his life, but perhaps his most famous quote is, If I find
10,000 ways something wont work, I havent failed. This quote is so powerful because it is saying that
even though he may have failed on numerous attempts at creating what he wanted, he didnt see it as a
failure. He saw it as a way how not to do it. He learned that he couldnt create something that way. He
learned that he needed to do something differently. The thing I lose patience with the most is the
clock. Its hands move too fast. This quote really spoke to me because it is saying that we cant waste
time. There is never enough time. It is the only constant thing throughout our entire lives. It is
something we are always fighting with, something that will never go faster or slower. People rarely
seem to understand their self-worth and all the incredible things we are able to do. People tend to get
discouraged when something doesnt work out so they give up. If we all did the things we are really
capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Those people that do realize what they are
capable of, tend to go on and change the world, like Edison. He realized from a young age that he
wanted to help people and make the world a better place. He wanted to help people and the world
become better, become something that it had never seen or been. Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration. When I first read this quote, I didnt really understand it. As I
started to think about it, I realized that that is true. It only takes an idea to change the world forever. IF
you dont act on your idea, you will never be able to change the world. You may fail 10,000 times at
creating your idea, but maybe the 10,001 time, youll get it right and you have something that no one has
ever seen before. Something that could potentially change the world. You just have to keep going with
your idea until you finally changed your idea from that; an idea into something physical, something that
the world can use. Many of lifes failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close thy
were to success when they gave up. People who fail, may become discouraged and give up. You may be
one experiment away from creating what you were striving for, but you gave up because you had failed
so many times. You have to keep going to get what you want in this world. If you dont, you may miss
out on the opportunity of a lifetime. I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where
the last person left off. People give up too easily now. They arent willing to put in the work necessary
to create something of themselves, because of that, Edison was able to become the inventor that he
was.

Personal Opinion

I have always been a huge fan of Edison. He helped us get to where we are today. Without him,
who knows if we would be as advanced and strong as we are now. Im sure someone would have
invented all the things he did and progressed us to where we are, but he did it all. He helped movies and
music get to where it is because of his inventions. He created a cheaper and more affordable lightbulb
so we can see at night and work longer days and see when the sun went down. I have always wanted to
create something that would affect the world, but I just am not smart enough to think of what the world
needs. I want to change the world, but I dont think that I can. I think because I think I cant do
something, I dont do it. I am young still, but I dont think that I will ever change my habits. I have them
so engrained in my memory, that I cant do anything about it. Some of his quotes made me think about
my own personal life. When he said something about failing 10,000 times but never actually failing, I
was very confused. I thought that, How could you fail that many times, but still not realize that you
failed? I started thinking about it after I read the quote, then I started to think. You cant truly learn if
you dont fail at something in life. If all you do is succeed, you will never learn how to deal with failure.
People react to failure in many different ways; some quit, some just cant handle the failure so they just
give up in general. All of these are how I feel. I dont ever believe that I can do anything. I just follow
others until I have faith in my own self to do what I need to do.
Division 2: Foundations of Humanity
In my first years at NMU, I took a class called Human Geography. We learned about people and how
different we all are in different regions of the world. We learned about each region separately and learned
why they are all so different. We also learned where all the different countries are in each region. Its
fascinating how different two places can be even though they are right next to each other. Take Europe
and Africa for instance. Europe is a well developed country whereas Africa is one of the least developed
nations in the world. The only thing that separates them is a small body of water, so why are they so
different? Ive always wondered why two places can be that different. Especially when Europe is the
group that colonized Africa. Why is it so different now? I think that theyre so different because of
everything that the US did to them with slavery and the fact that Africa is so hot and dry all the time. Also
why is Europe so different from Asia when they are connected? Is it the different religions that make
them so different? I think that thats part of the reason that they are.

Division 3: Foundations of Natural Science and Mathematics

This semester I took psychological statistics and that helped me to understand math and how things work
around me. I look at things a little differently now. Like how birds fly and how bats dont. I thought that
that was the weirdest thing to me because bats fly around in the air just like birds do, but they are always
falling. They always have to flap their wings to stay in the air. I started to think about sports and
basketball. I have always played basketball and it comes naturally to me. I never really thought about the
mechanics of shooting a ball or even dribbling down the court. Its crazy that we have played this sport
for so long and Ive never really thought about why I shoot the ball the way I do. I never really thought
about changing my power for longer shots or how you have to push the ball out in front of you if you
want to run down that court and dribble. So many things I look at differently now, or at least think about
them more often than I had before.

Division 4: Foundations of Social Science

Its crazy to me how some people can be crazy smart in school but then they have no common sense
outside of the classroom. I always thought if youre smart in a classroom then that would carry over
outside of the classroom, but thats not the case. Ive noticed that there actually is a difference in being
smart. Im not very book smart, but outside of the classroom, I am pretty smart. I have a lot of street sense
where as some people dont have much street sense. One of my friends has a 4.0 in college and she had a
4.0 in high school as well. She studies all the time, but when shes not studying, and shes out on the
street, she doesnt seem to fit in. She thinks too much about her decisions and they end up taking forever.
She doesnt always think about what shes doing either. She doesnt think about what her choices now
will do in the future. She decided to get a puppy the other day, but she didnt realize how much time she
has to spend with him. She didnt realize how much a puppy would cost either, so shes low on money
now as well. It was a good idea to get a puppy, but Im not sure if the timing was right for her.

Division 5: Formal Communication Studies

This semester, I took a sign language class. It was an unbelievable experience. I am happy that I took the
class. I went to Sol Azteca the other day and I actually saw a table where the people sitting there were
signing to each other. I was able to understand some of the signs that they were using and I tried to talk to
them using what I learned in sign language. I didnt know a lot of what they were saying, but I was able to
fingerspell what I didnt know and they showed me the signs for what I fingerspelled. It was incredible. I
didnt know I would be able to use something I just learned so quickly. I rarely see people signing each
other and of course once I learn how to sign, I see more and more people signing. Im truly happy I took
sign language. I will always use it and it will forever be a tool I can use.

Division 6: Foundations of Visual and Performing Arts

For RE 410 we had to make a final project where we used one of the humanities we learned about all
semester. I have always found myself behind a camera or phone videoing what was going on around me. I
decided to make a video about my friends and how people act differently around different friend groups.
We learned about poetry, which is something I enjoyed writing. I wasnt really a big fan of it until now.
Ive been able to learn more about myself because of this class. Ive been able to reflect on my past and
write about it and share with my peers everything that I could. Ive changed as a person due to this class.

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Whats to Come

We were walking through the trees

Just my friends and I
Trying to find a place
To watch the night sky.
We were lost
With no idea where to go
We figured with a drink
We could wait for the snow.
We have been the best of friends
Ever since I could remember
Im not sure whats going to happen
Come graduation in December.
Theyre my adventure buddies
We do everything together
 Camping, drinking, and sports
Were just a few things our bodies could weather.
From snowboarding and cross country skiing
To kayaking, snorkeling, and tubing
All the memories we made
Just think of what is to come.

Section 3: Professional Competencies

Dale Stark

Fall 2014

December 16th, 2017

What do you hope to accomplish through the Leisure Services profession?

I want to own an adventure style camp for kids. I want to have it run year round and I want to be able to
teach kids how to camp in different climates. I want to teach kids how to kayak, canoe, and sail and trust
each other. I want to have a high ropes course and a low ropes course in my camp to teach the kids to
trust in each other and in themselves.

What do you see as your strengths as an Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management senior?

My strengths as an Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management senior would be my people skills. I
am very good at talking to people and relating to them. I am confident in my own abilities in being a
leader or in charge of a hiking/camping trip. I am confident in my abilities to hike and camp for extended
periods of time in any season. I am confident in my ability to remain calm in stressful situations while
camping or any other type of excursion. I am confident in my ability to teach and spread the knowledge
that I have and also am confident in my ability to learn new or different skills. I catch on to and learn
new skills very quickly and easily.

What do you see as your weaknesses as an Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management senior?

My weaknesses as an Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management senior would be that in larger
groups of peers, or people that have the same kinds of training and experience I do, I dont tend to
speak up when asked questions as a whole. I tend to stay quieter when I have a possibility of being
wrong or embarrassing myself in front of lots of people my age. I am fine with talking around people
older or younger than me, but if they are the same age as me or close to it, I tend to be quieter and
thats something I need to work on. I also get bored quickly with some tasks I am doing, or I become lazy
and procrastinate the things I need to do.

In what areas would you most like to improve?

I would like to improve in my camping skills. There is always more to learn. I want to gain more
experience in extended camping trips and I want to gain more confidence when talking with my peers. I
would also like to gain experience with more guiding adventures, like white water rafting, canoeing, and
hunting/fishing.

Academic Skills

Critical/Analytical Thinking: Good; Improved; I have improved my critical thinking by coming

into a higher position at my job. Over the summer I was a Waterfront Director and I had to think
about multiple different activities at the same time and having the right people at each activity
so that the kids would have more fun and learn the activity easier and quicker. I had to think
critically when I went to Isle Royale over the summer and my second counselor had become sick
and I had to work with that while watching over the kids that we took on our trip.
Creative Thinking: Good; Improved; My creative thinking has improved because I was never
able to write poetry until RE 410 when we had to write a poem and hang it in the Peif. I also like
to carve sticks while we are camping and make little faces, which is something I use to rarely do.
Programming: Good; Improved; My programming skills have improved in the sense that I can
now think critically and think about an event I want to put on, such as an overnight camping trip
that I did over the summer. I had to plan out the risks we would be taking, the food and supplies
we would need, and the personnel we would take on the trip.
Risk Management: Good; Improved; Over the summer I had to come up with risk management
plans for an overnight camping trip I took some one the campers on. I also had to help come up
with a risk management plan for the 10 day hiking trip I took my campers on to Isle Royale.
Interpretation: Fair; Improved; During RE 381 and RE 382, I improved my interpretation skills
through the classes. I use to not know what interpretation was or what it meant to be an
interpreter, but now I know what it means to be an interpreter and how hard it is to be an
interpreter.
Preparation of lessons: Good; Improved; Throughout the course of working at my summer
camp, I was in charge of running many different areas at camp. I was in charge of rock climbing,
low/high ropes, waterskiing, wakeboarding, sailing, kayaking, canoeing, and fishing. For each of
the areas that I ran, I had to come up with a lesson plan for each period. Each period had to be
different since the skills of the kids was different for each class, which made preparing lessons
more difficult.
Presentation of lessons: Good; Improved; Working at the summer camp I worked at and going
through NMUs Outdoor Recreation program, I have become much better at presenting my
lessons. At summer camp, I implement different lessons to different skill level kids for different
activities at camp. At NMU we implement different lessons for different classes. In RE 381 and
382 we put on different interpretive talks which are all different topics and lessons. In the
Wilderness Stewardship course, we had to give a presentation about an informational topic for
the class.
Planning adventure and/or outdoor experiences: Good; Improved; I have gained lots of
experience with planning outdoor experiences through my summer camp. The summer camp
that I worked at, I had to help stock food, gear, equipment, and their packs for our camping
 trips. I also had to help with the paperwork for the parks that we would be staying at and
coordinate which vehicles would be the best fit for the kids to get there. I also had to help with
some Risk Management plans for some of the trips we took.
Leading adventure and/or outdoor experiences: Good; Improved; Over the summer, I was able
to take six 15 year old boys on a 10 day camping trip to Isle Royale National Park. I had one
other counsellor with me and the boys. On about the third day of the trip, the other counsellor
finished our hike for the day about a half hour after us. We ended up having to send him to Rock
Harbor so that if his situation got worse, they would be able to send him back. I had to take the
6 boys for the rest of the trip by myself and I gained a lot of experience with that. I also went on
the Wilderness Stewardship trip and we were required to be the leader of the day with our
classmates and I gained a lot of valuable experience with that as well since it was the winter.
Clear reasoning:
o Logical Reasoning: Good; Improved; Over the summer, I had to think logically when
choosing where I wanted certain lifeguards and other people to help. I also had to think
logically when we had emergencies happen, I had to follow our protocol and keep
everyone calm that was involved.
o Mathematical Reasoning: Excellent; Improved; While we planned our trip for Isle Royale,
we had to figure out how many pounds of food we would need per person per day.
Then we had to measure it out into bags that would easily fit into our packs.
o Scientific Reasoning: Good; Improved; Biology is a huge part of who I am. I love to learn
about plants and animals in the area that I would go camping. I love to learn how to use
different plants for different things like tea or medicine.
o Analogical Reasoning: Good; Improved; One quote that I like to live by is, Not everyone
likes the same things, thats why they have menus at restaurants. It means that not
everyone is going to like the same things. That is why not everyone is an ORLM major.
o Metaphorical Reasoning: Good; Improved; He is a night owl. It is something that
relates easily to me. I dont sleep well, I never really have so I get to experience the
night, which is something that not a lot of people like or can stay up for. I love the night.
Metaphors are easy things to use around people and they can relate easier to what we
are learning at the time.
What can you do with an Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management degree?

With an ORLM degree, you can do just about anything you want. If you want to help people, you could
be a recreational therapist. If you love to camp and see the wild backcountry, you could be a hiking
guide and take others out with you to experience the wild. If you want to help people understand
something better, you could be an interpreter. You would be able to help them relate to a topic easier
and in their own way. There are endless things to do with an ORLM degree.

How does ORLM contribute to the Leisure Service industry and profession?

ORLM contributes by teaching young adults about nature and how to preserve it. It teaches us how to
work in nature and preserve it at the same time. It teaches us how we can use nature to help other
people. It gives us experiences so that when we do graduate, we can easily find a job and know what we
want to do. It helps our profession because we have experience in our field before we even graduate so
that we know what to do and it doesnt affect anyone else.
What have you learned about yourself through your experiences and courses in the ORLM program?

I have learned that I work extremely well with kids and nature. I love teaching kids how to camp or how
to make fires or how to survive in the wilderness. I have learned that I could never work somewhere
where I have to stay inside all day. I have to be outside in the fresh air and not cooped up in a building. I
have learned that I am shy around people that have the same experiences as me, but in a group where
we dont all have the same experiences, I am more outspoken and a better leader. I learned that I am
better at learning new things when I am doing them hands on instead of listening to someone explain
how to do it.

What books have influenced you most throughout your career at NMU?

Nicolazzo, Paul. The Art & Technique of Wilderness Medicine: a Field Manual. Wilderness Medicine
Training Institute, 1997.

This book has helped me through this course because I want to go into something along the lines of
wilderness medicine. I want to be a guide in the backcountry and if I dont have my WFR certification,
then it will be harder for me to get my job.

Final Thoughts?

Get as much experience as you can, even if you end up hating what you did. At least you know what you
want to do if you go out and gain those experiences.

Professional Philosophy and Mission Statement

I believe that you get what you deserve and you have to work for what you want. It wont be handed to
you, you have to earn what you want. You have to be open to learning new ways of doing things
because your way isnt always going to be right. I want to help people learn how to do new things and
become more adventurous with their own lives and with their kids. I want children to become more
attached to the outdoors than with technology present these days.

Resume
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Personal Outdoor Experience
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Certifications
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 Personal and Professional Goals and Objectives
Personal

I want to own an Adventure Based Camp

o Ill have to gain more experience about what it takes to run a camp
o Ill have to look into how much it would cost to purchase a piece of property to have the
camp on
o Ill have to look into the legal aspects about owning a camp and what I would have to do
legally to own a camp
I want to become a hiking guide
o Move out west and find a job
I want to become more confident in myself when talking to peers
o Talk to more people my age and become more confident

Professional

I want to continue to get more certifications

o I want to be able to have many different certifications so that I can do more if I dont like
my job
I want to gain more resources
o I want to have the ability to say, I know a guy.