Week 8, Day 4

Happy Thursday of your last week!! We’re very excited for you to finish up your projects and to hear your experience with us at the showcase!

We have a busy day today!

We will start with our last expert guest speaker talk by Dr. Christine MacDonald at 10 am PT | 12 pm CT | 1 pm ET. You can learn more about Dr. MacDonald from our website here.

We will also have our Thursday Check-In meeting with subcohort groups at 11:30 am PT | 1:30 pm CT | 2:30 pm ET.

Afterwards, we will have the Concussion Alliance End of Internship Showcase for the first group of people who signed up at 12:30 pm PT | 2:30 pm CT | 3:30 pm ET. The second group who signed up will present on Friday at 12 pm PT | 2 pm CT | 3 pm ET.

If you haven’t already, please take a look at the following to complete:

Start-of-day Procedure

  1. Check Slack for new messages

  2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal

  3. Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content

  4. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources

  5. Check in with your PM on Slack

  6. Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack


There are 5 (new) tasks to do today:

  • Complete the tasks above to finish up the internship program.

  • Continue to work on your projects.

    If you need any help with navigating Squarespace, Canva, further questions about feedback on drafts, etc, please reach out to the Admin team! We are here to help you!

  • Prep for our Expert Guest Speaker today - Dr. Christine Macdonald!

  • Prep for your End of the Internship Showcase!

  • Write thank you notes for Dahl Family & BRaIN Lab and Dr. MacDonald.


Curriculum for Today

We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go.

Unit 1: Race, Sex, and Social Factors (~1 hour)

Unit 2: Stanford Writing Course

  • We will no longer be assigning modules from this course. However, feel free to keep continuing if you would like!