Week 6, Day 2
Welcome to Week 6 of your internship with Concussion Alliance! We are so proud of everyone, all of you have been crushing it! We’re looking forward to seeing you keep it up and continue working on your projects! We hope that this curriculum load continues to suit you well.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09.
We’ll have our Concussion (2015) and League of Denial (2013) Discussion on Wednesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET. It is scheduled for an hour and a half due to the quantity of content we are going to cover with both movies (don’t worry, we will have a ten minute break built in!) Questions are coming soon!
We will be having project draft review meetings with Conor, Malayka, Kira, PMs, and project partners on Wednesday and Thursday this week. The link to sign up is here!
We’ll also have one group social activity this week! We have our weekly Social Hour on Friday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.
Start-of-day Procedure
Check Slack for new messages.
Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal, or on the shared Google Calendar.
Check the ‘day page’ for tasks & content.
Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources.
Check in with your PM on Slack.
Check in with your project partner on Slack .
There are Four Task to do today:
Decide with your group a time to have your project draft meeting this Wednesday or Thursday, then sign up for a slot
Finish your project draft - get it fleshed out to the point where you are comfortable discussing it with Conor, Malayka, Kira, and your PM. These should be as complete as possible, but they are still drafts!
Thank-you to Dr. Etheredge
Please write a note to Dr. Etheredge thanking her for speaking last Thursday. As part of showing professionalism and respect to our speakers for taking time out of their schedules to talk to us, we try to send these thank you notes back within 2 business days of their talk. You can write your note here.
Keep an eye out for newsletter edits!
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 through them.
Unit 1: Football and Sports Industrial Complex (~80 min)
If you haven't finished League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis (1hr 53 min), finish it by tomorrow morning!
Discussion questions will be linked ASAP!
Listen to The Ethics of Football and the Concussion Industrial Complex (80 min)
This is an excerpt from the podcast "The End of Sport" about the ethics of US football, featuring Kathleen Bachynski, Asst Professor of Publich Health and author of No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis
We are not reading Dr. Bachynski's book, we just linked it for you to look at what it's about
Unit 4: Stanford Writing Course
Stanford Writing Course Week 6: Reviews, Commentaries, and Opinion Pieces & the Publication Process
Do this at your own pace throughout the week, each lesson is separate (~2 hrs)