Student Intern learns the bond between small, large business
Small Business Intern Kamryn Bond assists the Port of Se-attle with economic development in a vari-ety of ways. After discovering the internship through her high school’s college advisor at Technology Access Foundation Academy, a STEM-focused with grades 6-12 in Kent, she hopes she will be able to improve her coding skills by improving the current Port website, developing an app, and updating databases. Bond is able to use what she has learned in a classroom environment, such as Microsoft Office, and apply those skills in a business setting.
"I had no idea how much of an essential tool Excel was until I finished this project," Bond said. "I’m cleaning up databases based on company matches and directories, and I was working on it for more than two weeks because I had to look over 2,000 companies from the Office of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises, which is a list of different types of small businesses."
Bond also wants to gain knowledge of the differences between big and small companies, as well as how to communicate with different businesses. "I went to this trade show with one of my su-pervisors. It was really interesting to see how different companies will interact with one another. Ba-sically, it’s a collection of booths at the Seattle Center and they’re just giving away their business cards, and talk about wanting to do business with many different companies, so it’s nice to see."
