CTP Skill Center

I started the day by clocking in with Homebase. Then I continued working on my project. I also installed Ubuntu and its clone. I also wrote down the ticket on osTicket. At the end of the day, I post ” What did I do today? ” then I clock out of Homebase.

I attended my monthly check-in. I feel that this check-in was more positive than the last one.

I did work on my Core Portfolio. I tried to jazz it up with pictures in the background.

We worked on setting up our Zoom account. Then scheduled a zoom meeting amongst my fellow students.

We worked on our disk partition labs. I got as far as combining Windows and Ubuntu. Then I was having issues, and I reinstalled Ubuntu. So I asked Jose to help, and after a while, I basically had to restart the combos. That is a little ughness, but it is good practice, and now that I understand, it should go smoothly. I also like the fact that Jose took the time to help because I have a better understanding of the project. We then did our monthly check-in with Carrie and Devin. I like that they actually check in to see where you are.

Practiced typing, did good. Worked on my Core Portfolio, due tomorrow. Met with Carrie and Devin to check in and see my progress. Learned how to schedule Zoom meetings. Loved it.

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 task 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. I logged more general emails and site forms for provided foundations to be contacted, filtered out foundations without proper contact sites and general emails and messaged around 7 more foundations using the provided email template.

07.14.2026: Today was a good day. I realized at the beginning of class that I forgot to post a reflection yesterday. I definitely plan to post right below this one because, again, today was a good day, lol. (Not sure if “lol” and my grammar are work-appropriate, but this is how it is coming out of my brain, so my apologies to everyone). I enjoyed finishing my Salesforce CRM badge and the information given. It was quite confusing because learning has changed significantly since the TBI. I won’t go into that portion in too much detail, but the time and support I am receiving are encouraging me to learn enthusiastically. Another interesting part of class was the mention of prep schools. I wanted to bring back the conversation because I had to go back to double-check; I definitely went to a prep school, a college prep school (also Catholic). There are ups and downs with the systems in general, and now I’m interested in finding humans to listen to and understand others’ experiences or their own instances outside of prep schools. No negativity here; I become deeply interested in many topics. The hardest part of class was figuring out which elective to take on. I want time to do every single one because I’m interested in the different aspects each gives. I chose the spreadsheet for Party Celebration as it reminds me of the sheets I used to make while working/ managing a fantastic cupcake shop and an awesome, sometimes stressful, movie theater. Well, allow me not to keep rambling to you all. I hope this wasn’t too much for the post. Appreciate everyone!

07.13.2026: I left class early on Monday as I had a doctor’s appointment. I was really hoping the appointment would move swiftly to get back to the end of class to finish Salesforce CRM before I had to attend another appointment. I wasn’t able to make it back in time, and my end-of-day responsibilities picked up quickly. I appreciate the ability to continue and complete the next day.

Thankfully it was another elective day, so I continued to work on Salesforce CRM online learning through the Trailhead. Yesterday and today I made quite a bit of progress on a number of different trails. I completed Quick Start: Prompt Builder, Quick Start: Create a Prompt Builder Flex Template, and Quick Start: Create a Sales E-mail prompt template. I had completed these by the first hour of class.

For the second hour of class, I had reached the Superbadge for this segment on Prompt Builder templates. It required a special hands-on org with data representing Tranquil Trails, a fictitious company using the salesforce platform. After about 30 minutes, I finally received my credentials and spent the duration of the class working on the first two modules in this Superbadge.

And, it was a struggle until the very end. The issue seems to be that I only have a few experiences setting up a “Flow” and the options and input sources are sometimes hard to nail down in the correct manner to satisfy the Trailhead challenge. The specific challenge was to update a “Fitness” survey result from our “Contacts” in the case it was written in any language other than English, to have the AI automatically translate the text into English when the fitness record is saved. It took me over twenty attempts to complete 50% of the Superbadge today, but I feel like I am getting the hang of some of these Salesforce tools.