-Describe a situation in which you collaborated intensely and at length with another person ( Project's Day, CIP, Consortium event, creative product, etc).
Hello guys, I am here to describe a situation whereby high intensified collaboration with my classmates took place!
I participated in the Project's day competition, of which was completely compulsory- providing you want your Independent Studies marks. This is the special system of Hwa Chong Institution, as there are many different ways of learning, such as independent studies, and even including a major project as a part of academics.
Well, my group, consisting of Jia Wang, Damien, and Shin Chang, decided to create an invention, for our project. At first we were completely confused with the project's day marking scheme and stuff; it was new, however, we still tried our best to brainstorm. We thought of a cucumber cutter- pretty practical and common, doesn't it seem? Well, thats the truth. It was plain, surface levelled, and not a quality piece of work ( at all.)
But our ignorance continued to reign as we did not meet our mentor Dr. Chew, often, plus the fact that we lack a prototype. We thought that it wouldn't matter if we fail as it was just a project- we did not know about the grave importance of the project.
Hence, we just did it like an ordinary project, very lacking in quality. We did not even meet up to do; we just pushed the effort to one another, and hope that someone would do it. But our mentality changed when we were kicked out of the preliminary rounds. It was a setback and we were then onwards, determined to do well for this project. ( I have no idea what motivated us - a 180 degree turn).
Thus, we started making arrangements with our mentor and he told us to change our category to resource development. It was our last straw, as we really could not think of any invention creative enough. So why not try resource development? We started to design a science website-as a note based webpage for primary school students to take notes from it- with videos and many learning points.
We met up a lot, bearing the thought of the urgency to pass our preliminary round 2, we tried our very best, to rush- with precision- our work, and collaborated intensely, brainstormed productively, through the next 2 weeks. That was tough but all was rewarded when we managed to pass our preliminary round 2 ! Despite our lousy first invention we managed to complete such a webpage within such a short period of time, I think it was a great accomplishment.
-What did you learn about your own abilities to cooperate and work together during your collaboration?
I learnt that I am a person who wants to get things done, and over with. I want to do things fast, swift, precise,and perfect. I think my friends are motivative, as when we feel like we're succumbing to the temptation of gaming, they would encourage one another and shift their focuses. All of us wanted to accomplish our project with perfection, hence the amount of effort put in- we had a hard time meeting up, some of us were not free, some of our parents did not agree. Well, I think I work well with my teammates , and have bonded with them more.This collaboration did indeed brought us 4 closer together and also dawned upon me my abilities as an individual to complete assignments. Overall I think I would want to work with them again and the work would be doubly productive with the sufficient time frame.
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