Week 1 Assignments (6/24/22 - 6/30/22)
DUE BY 6/30/22:
LinkedIn Learning Modules: Upload your personalized certificates (pdfs) into your Team's Google folder.
How to Set Goals When Everything Feels Like a Priority
Being an Effective Team Member
Determine your Project Team's weekly 3rd meeting dates and times and the platform you will use. Most weeks, you will attend the Friday 10-12 session, and two additional Project Team meetings.
Submit your meeting minutes and attendance sheets in your weekly assignment folders.
Create your Team calendar (see Program Calendar page on this site and add your team meeting links).
Choose your Team Roles:
(2) - Student Project Team Leaders
(2) - Project Team Coordinators (take attendance, minutes, manage communications, create a Team calendar)
(4) - Presentation Writers (and newsletter writers)
(4) - Design Team (images, design, slides/PPT, taking screenshots of your team meetings, team logo)
(2) - Project Presenters
Everyone on the Team conducts research
Minutes and Attendance:
Here is an excellent example of minutes taken last year by Dr. Newton's team. Your team can create something with similar components as a Google doc. Make sure to upload your minutes and attendance after each meeting. You can create your Team attendance sheets as well using Google docs.
Week 2 Assignments (7/01/22 - 7/07/22)
DUE BY 7/7/21 (with the exception of the team logos):
Select Your Team Project and Team Name. Add your name to a Google doc and add it to your Week 2 folder.
Design a team logo for your digital background for all future meetings. Follow branding guidelines (info below). Team logos are DUE 7/14/22. Project Student Team Leaders will upload the file into the Team's Google folder.
No LinkedIn Learning modules due.
Upload minutes and attendance to your Week 2 folder.
the Team conducts researc
Week 3 Assignments (7/08/22 - 7/14/22)
DUE BY 7/14/22:
Revise your resume. Upload into your Team's Google folder.
No LinkedIn Learning modules due.
Team Logos due.
Upload minutes and attendance.
Make sure your Team has a calendar!
Week 4 Assignments (7/15/22 - 7/21/22)
DUE BY 7/21/22:
LinkedIn Learning Module Certificates
Speaking Confidently and Effectively
15 Secrets Successful People Know about Time Management
Upload minutes and attendance.
Week 5 Assignments (7/22/22 - 7/28/22)
DUE BY 7/28/22:
LinkedIn Learning Module Certificate
How to Train Your Brain for Maximum Growth
ROUGH DRAFT OF TEAM PRESENTATION and NEWS ARTICLES (TO BE REVIEWED BY PROJECT TEAM LEADERS)
Upload minutes and attendance.
Week 6 Assignments (7/29/22 - 8/04/22)
Be camera ready on Friday, August 5th to present your project to your fellow TCAP interns, project sponsors, and Metro judges. Invite family and friends to watch your presentation. LA Metro's CEO has been invited.
DUE BY 8/3/22:
FINAL DRAFT TEAM PROJECT PRESENTATIONS ARE DUE. (PRESENTATIONS and ARTICLES TO BE REVIEWED BY PROJECT TEAM LEADERS.)
No LinkedIn Learning modules are due.
Upload minutes and attendance.
DUE BY 8/4/22:
FINAL PRESENTATIONS AND NEWS ARTICLES
DUE BY 8/5/22:
Final survey will be deployed during the Commencement meeting on Friday, August 5th.
PLEASE NOTE:
All of your assignments and surveys must be submitted prior to program completion to receive the $1000 stipend.
TEAM LOGO INFO:
TEAM SPONSOR PROJECT INFORMATION
Your team can create a digital flip book!
Metro’s Signage & Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) team is an in-house creative design team that establishes, develops, and maintains Metro’s visual identity in the customer environment of the fastest-growing transit system in the country. Key areas of focus include signage and wayfinding, customer information, fleet vehicle graphics and styling, branded environments, industrial design, and other specialties that directly impact the customer experience. These design elements, often in combination, create a visual path for navigation through the transit environment, conveying critical information, adding legibility & clarity, and providing important opportunities to reinforce the agency’s brand identity.
In 2028, Los Angeles will be hosting the summer Olympic games. To mitigate the swell of congestion expected by the many people visiting Los Angeles and attending the games, Metro will be providing a shuttle service to some of the top Olympic venues in the Los Angeles area. Your challenge is to develop a eye-catching and memorable vehicle design for the Metro bus shuttle along with a bus stop blade sign for the pick-up/drop-off locations throughout the city. The shuttle will be operated by Metro alongside our existing bus and rail services and the proposed design must be capture the essence of Metro’s current brand standards.