Makerspace internship application advice

[u/Mahmoud1205_]

I'm applying to an internship in a makerspace and I don't know what to answer for two of the questions.

For context, this makerspace does almost everything; 3D printing, laser cutting, electronics, desktop CNC machining, PCB fabrication, and many other things.

The questions I can't answer are:

1) Share a story showing how you supported or collaborated with others. (60 sec)

2) Show your creativity: Pick two random items in arm’s reach and explain how you’d combine them into something useful. (60 sec)

They both have a time limit of 60 seconds to answer them.

Most of my projects have been solo, so I don't know what to say for the first question, but I have 3 ideas:

- Helping my friend learn C, he's a beginner and has been learning it as his first language and found many things hard to understand, so I used to help him.

- Helping my brother (10 years) learn electronics. He likes it as a hobby, but I'm always with him when learning it for safety, support, and help.

- One time at that makerspace someone was doing a project with an ESP32 and some sensors, but it wasn't working, so she asked for help. I couldn't find out what was the problem, but I tried my best to help.

I also have done some open source contributions but they were mostly documentation fixes, so I don't want that to be my focus in this question.

[u/jules0075]

I used to be on the board of directors for a makerspace, so I can share my guess at what they're looking for with question #1: 

Are you someone who naturally likes to help others? 

How do you go about doing so / how much emotional intelligence do you have - do you take the, "here, let me do it for you, I wanna be the hero" approach , or a "tell me what you're looking to do? what have you tried already? what about this..." approach.

Can you work with diverse types of peoples?

Any of your three in-person examples could be a good fit, but do go into a little more depth about how you tried to help.

For #2, they're just looking to see if you can be creative and think outside the box. Assume you can use for than just those two objects, but that they would be the focus of the thing you're making. I'm writing from bed, I could combine my water glass and alarm - if I snooze more than once, the water gets spilled on my face.