For my externship I had the opportunity to work with McMillen which is a full-service engineering, environmental, and self-performing construction firm. Their focus is on water conservation with things like dams, waterways, fish ladders and any number of other water projects. I worked from my own home with their safety manager on transforming existing onboarding training PowerPoints into more of a dynamic e-learning course using a program called articulate 360. Once I learned how to use the software, I spent my time creating two safety training courses. What’s great is the software I used could easily be used to do training in any industry including education. When I accepted this externship I wasn’t sure exactly what I would be doing. I was just hoping that I would have the skills necessary to do what was expected. The program was described as PowerPoint on steroids. It was definitely that. Just grateful for the great group at McMillen for the opportunity to work with them for the summer and the experience and skills that I gained from it. Below is an overview snapshot of one of the projects I was working on.