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Tech Team Quarter 1 Reflection – Eric

Grade 12, Tech Team

Some things I have been involved with were helping with the Grade 9 Bootcamp in the beginning of the year. I helped with the Edublog station during which I made sure students were able to get their blogs working. I also spent time in the wave and helped any students that would come with tech issues. Along with working the sound system for school assemblies. For the Cricut assignment I made a League of Legends sticker and for the pumpkin contest I helped 2 grade 9s learn how to use the Cricut when designing Pumpjo Satokin.

I have improved on my communication skills by clearly talking about action plans and scheduling ahead of time. This at the same time shows off my strength in being able to make a realist and elaborate plan to achieve a result I want.

One challenge I’ve had is learning how to use the Cricut machine. Since I haven’t used the Cricut a lot of time it was  difficult using the tools to remove and attach the sticker as my hand eye coordination is below average. I can definitely work more on hands on activities, while I am quite confident in working with technicalities I have always had trouble doing rough work. This is something I would like to improve in order to be able to work more independently.

In the coming months I would first like to make sure that spoken word runs smoothly, I have already booked a time to test out the equipment. With this I would like to teach some juniors how to use the soundboard for both assemblies and spoken word.  

Tech Team Quarter 4 Reflection – Eric H

Tech Team,

In this semester, I worked as a tech team member on the spirit and First Nations assembly, spoken word recording and athletic banquet. I worked on the sound system for the assemblies and athletic banquet helping with set up and take down. For the spoken word I set up the live stream. I was also involved with the spirit triathlon, acting as a deep water life guard and many other swimming events.

Something I learned this semester is troubleshooting by steps and looking for alterative solutions. An effective strategy when you don’t know what is wrong is to start from the source and test each part in a closed environment. My strength is being able to look for ways to ensure that the part I am testing is the only variable object.

The biggest challenge was the spoken word where I had many difficulties setting up and camera and audio. I think something that I can really work on is taking bigger “risks” because I’m always afraid to change too much such as in the case of the live stream. I was afraid to move the whole set up even though the previous set up was not working. By taking these risks I can strive to achieve a better product.

During the summer, I would like to start on some projects using AI, building programs and a portfolio which might help me in applying for universities in the science field. I would like to make a program that is useful to at least myself and be proud of it.

Tech Team Quarter 3 Reflection

Tech Team

Even though semester 3 has been a busy time for me I was still able to find opportunities for volunteering and leadership activities. Somethings I did this semester includes completing the TinkerCad assignment, attending the SLC leadership summit meeting and assisting with the leadership escape room.

The most important things I’ve learned is working with TinkerCad I had “aha” moments while moving around in the user interface and this is a skill that can benefit me later on. I had also learned about the SD43 SLC (Student leadership council). My biggest strength shown this semester is my ability to provide meaningful and constructive feedback. I was able to demonstrate this when providing feedback for the leadership escape room project.

A stretch and something I would like to do later on is to build and run a leadership project as opposed to simply participating or helping in a leadership role.

3D Printer Introduction – Eric

 

Tech Team – Semester 1 – Reflection

Tech Team

During this term I have continued with Peer tutoring every Tuesday and various leadership activities such as organizing lunch time events, volunteering for the staff children Christmas party, best buddies, and little buddies. I also conducted the stream on Youtube for Spoken words. And in the following week I will be helping with COL support, grade 8 walkabout, and grade 8 parent information night.

The most important thing I’ve learned/developed further is streaming videos. Since I have used OBS for various reason before I had experience, however there were still many challenges mainly connecting cables, 1 interesting challenge I had was literally just forgetting to power on the Elgato. I learned that detailed instructions are very important because instructions that don’t make sense are worst than no instructions at all.

For my workshop I would really like to teach some people how to work with the streaming hardware in more detail. With this I have a vision of school events like music concerts to be streamed on Youtube making them accessible to all rapids or even just make them unlisted for friends and family. Other than that with this semester over I have a lot more academic courses than leadership courses meaning I will have more time to work on projects of my choice, which includes tackling the Tinkercad assignment and working with programming languages like python more

(Little buddies)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNZCo2gzqw8cHrqWRafDTe0ui4YtV8YQU