CTP Skill Center

Started the day by clocking in with Homebase. I started the class by doing the typing for the first 15 minutes. Today I got to do a different project, which is the BerkMart Conference with Google Slides, which was fun. I also got to meet with Jose to go over the tech article notes. It was a fun and productive day. Before the class ends, I did a “What did I do today?” post. After the class ends, then I clock out of Homebase.

Today was wonderful! I began working on my BerkMart slides project. I think I am handling better than my last projects however, I will say, I am still working on my ability to focus on the important and not my worries of perfection or unreasonable standards for myself. It is also a great feeling to understand where focs is the most trouble is by overthinking to the point where the focus is no longer present. Mike’s glasses were awesome and the class present cats are so much motivation. My slides project should be done tonight after a booked session.

Today I finished up the BerkMart Event Project and got a good start on the BerkMart Slideshow Project.

8/5/2026

Today, for the time, we worked on the CTT Project Inception phase part 2. I feel that after reading the instructions, I was able to get pretty far with the project, particularly the steps for setting up the virtual machine on the workstation computer. Also, we went over Google Calendar and got introduced to a classmate, Jasper. I’m also getting used to using the ticketing system and documenting my steps while working on phase 2.

We started with typing today. I am getting better at typing. Then we finished yesterday’s conference spreadsheets and started a Google Slideshow for the Berkmart Conference. I had fun with that and got done early. I played with the animations to make it more like something I would show. I had time at the end of class, did my Precipio, and got another done. I had a very productive day today.

Today was a pretty simple day working on the BerkMart Google Slides presentation. The last two Wednesdays we held mock interviews in class, so this was a good opportunity to hunker down instead and practice with Google Slides for the whole session.

There were a few things that were more difficult for me when I was making the presentation. For instance, changing the layout from the ribbon wasn’t working. So if I needed to change the layout, I started using right click on the individual slide, scrolling to “Apply Layout” where the changes could be made. I’m not sure if maybe my computer is low on resources or Google was simply glitching today.

I also saw a few new features I haven’t seen on Google Slides, which include Generate Image from AI, which didn’t end up working. I think the Nano Banana feature locks up at a certain point, and Google asks to pay or upgrade to use these AI features. Anyway, unable to generate certain images, I focused my attention to using appropriate or visually stimulating transitions between slides. There were about 7 varied slides in the final presentation to showcase my Google Slides skills.

Today, my main responsibilities as an administrative associate are my daily task for the day to research and post job listings onto the CTP skill center website, and my main tasks for the day is to research general emails and contact information for foundations from a provided list, and then send email messages to the applicable foundations, as well as send out fundraising emails to former CTP graduates from a provided list using the provided email template to message them. I also started calling former CTP graduates with the call and voicemail script.

I messaged around 5 more foundations using the provided email template, and I sent 5 emails to former CTP graduates using the provided email template.

The beginning part of today’s class session was overwhelming, but I still plugged along and multitasked between today’s lab project and typing details about it on osTicket. Just like in Computer Skills Bootcamp, I installed Bodhi Linux onto the computer I remotely controlled.