Sprint to Innovate challenge is a must-have experience for every student! I highly recommend everyone to take part in it. I will share with you my experience with great pleasure.
When I saw the announcement about it for the first time - I decided not to participate, as the second term was even more challenging than the first one and I had no idea how to free up time for something additional not related to the course program.
Later, I received messages related to this event from other students and started to think, maybe it was a wrong decision not to participate? But still, I didn't do anything. And finally, I received the email, that the registration is closing, and we have last 24 hours to register.
I started to look for other classmates who wish to join. Some of them were already in the teams, some of them were not ready to think about anything except studies and to my surprise, I found four brave people who agreed: Kaylee Hondubura, Celine Chan, Joseph Gabriel Tan and Rhomill Orina. And we registered as a team!!!
We had a few wonderful meetings before this event started, we chose the name for the team: "Coding Monster". We created some Polls and interviews with students and instructors. For my regret, the loading of course assignments in combination with event was almost impossible to handle it together and only Celine and I continued the challenge.
Thank you, Kaylee, Joseph and Rhomill!!! Without your support and wish to try something new I wouldn't have been able to gain this experience! I appreciate it a lot! Celine, thank you for not giving up participating only two of us in this challenge!!! And thank you to all instructors and students who took part in it and supported us!
What lessons did I learn?
- KEEP TRYING!
- SAY "YES" TO SOMETHING NEW, even if it sounds impossible!
- DON'T CONTINUE if you see it is much more than you thought it would be - THAT'S ALSO OK
- Better try and quit, than not to try!!!
Thank you, my friends, for all these lessons, they are so important for me!
What are my tips for you?
Join this event! Don't think twice!
College organizes for you a safe environment where you can gain your experience in a safe way.
You can see in practice all what you learned:
- Creating proposals
- Creating prototypes
- Creating presentations
- Presenting them to the public (over 100 people!)
- Time management - only 48 hours to do the work
- Team management - I didn't experience it, as we were only two of us, but a larger team of 4 or more needs one member to manage them.
I hope to see all of you participating in the next event!!!
Link to presentation: https://invis.io/CT12L3NVDRSM