Happy Holidays and Happy 2020! This week, I worked on my poster board for the research showcase! I changed it a bit from my original design, as I included a QR code of my digital portfolio and more information on my original work. I am also excited because I asked Mr. Peter Laube to be my mentor and he said yes! This was the week before winter break began, so I am looking forward to beginning my mentorship with him this following semester. He is a Manager of Enterprise Data and Analytics at State Farm, which differs slightly from data science, however, he was very knowledgeable in our interview and I am confident that I can learn a lot of new things from him. I also arranged an interview with Mr. Elliot Mitchell, a Director of Data Science at Keurig Dr. Pepper, because I wanted to gain more insight into the different fields data science can be applied to. I am really interested in how it is used to improve the company as a whole, so I am excited to speak with him more about it! In the next week, I will be tweaking any last details on my poster and preparing for the research showcase. I am looking forward to sharing my work, as well as beginning a new semester of ISM!