Pranavi - Vaping Detection & Mitigation Pathway

Week 3:

Technical Area:

  • I sent out a couple surveys to friends and family

  • Created a Slack ad Trello account

  • Downloaded Quartus

  • Tried getting used to the Stem-Away website

Tools:

  • Slack

  • Trello

  • Quartus

  • Google Drive, Google Meet, and Google Docs

  • Stem-Away website

Soft Skills:

  • Being able to communicate with team members in a remote environment

  • I reached out to my group to create a method for communication

  • Figured out different ways to send out surveys in order to get more responses

Three Achievements:

  • Joined meetings

  • Was able to communicate with a partner using different methods to communicate

  • Successfully downloaded Quartus

  • Got a couple responses from the survey

List of Meetings Attended:

  • FPGA Training #3 (7/30)

  • Vaping Intro Meeting (7/30)

  • VP Team 2 Weekly Meeting (8/3)

Goals:

  • Attend all meetings

  • Communicate with my team and work together

Tasks done:

  • I attended the weekly meeting

  • I installed Quartus using the instructions. It was a bit confusing but slowly went through the process

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Hi Pranavi! Can you change the title of the post to be “Pranavi Immanni - Vaping Pathway - Self Assessment”? Don’t forget to tag vaping, self-assessments, and any other skills you gained at the top.

Week 4:

Technical Area:

  • Researched about products and grew some knowledge on vaping detectors

  • Learned different ways to reduce vaping

  • Learned about the Halo detector from other presentations.

Tools:

  • Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Sides, Google Docs

  • Stem-Away Website

  • Slack

Soft Skills:

  • Communicated with my team through a group chat

  • The team consistently worked together for the presentations

  • Managed time and flexibility

Three Achievements:

  • Attended weekly team meetings, listened to other teams present, and joined the FPGA Training.

  • Successfully finished presentations and worked very well as team.

  • Presented as a team and communicated if there were any issues

List of Meetings Attended:

  • Vaping Intro Meeting (7/30)

  • VP Team 2 Weekly Meeting (8/3, 8/10)

  • FPGA Training (7/30, 8/6)

  • Week 4 Team 1 Presentations (8/7)

  • VP Co-Team Meeting (8/8)

Goals for this Week:

  • Work with the team on Week 5 deliverables

  • Fix issues with Quartus

  • Try attending all meetings

Tasks Done:

  • Attended all most all meetings

  • Finished Week 3 and Week 4 deliverables

#Vaping #Self-assessment #Teamwork #Soft Skills

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Week 5:

Technical Area:

  • Learned how block diagrams are developed from the Flysense Vaping detector

  • Have thought of and learned many ways to reduce vaping

Tools:

  • Google Drive, Google Slides, and Google Meet

  • Slack and Trello

  • WhatsApp

  • Stem-Away Website

Soft Skills:

  • Communicated very well to get tasks done evenly with the team

  • Managed time and flexibility

  • The team worked together to get tasks done and on time

Three Achievements:

  • Checked all tasks finished on Trello

  • Managed to get presentations done on time and presented week 3 , 4, and 5 deliverables

  • Have joined all meetings

List of Meetings Attended:

  • Vaping Intro Meeting (7/30)

  • VP Team 2 Weekly Meeting (8/3, 8/10, 8/17)

  • FPGA Training (7/30, 8/6, 8/13)

  • VP Co-Team Meeting (8/8, 8/15)

Goals for this Week:

  • Successfully finish this weeks project with new team members

  • Attend all meetings

Tasks Done:

  • Have successfully finished week 5 deliverables and presented.

  • Attended all mandatory meetings last week

#Vaping #Self-assesment #Teamwork #Soft Skills #Communication

Week 6:

Technical Area:

  • Generated a list of suggestions to reduce vaping

  • Understood the consequences of vaping. Including health, purchases, and affecting many schools

  • Worked on researching skills to get the right information needed for the report

Tools:

  • G-Suite

  • Slack and Trello

  • WhatsApp

  • Stem-Away Website

Soft Skills:

  • Communication went very well with different team members

  • Worked together to fix any problems that occurred during the report

  • Managed time and flexibility

Three Achievements:

  • Finished the report with the team

  • Presented week 6 deliverables

  • Completed the report in time with know issues between the team members

List of Meetings Attended:

  • Vaping Intro Meeting (7/30)

  • VP Team 2 Weekly Meeting (8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24)

  • FPGA Training (7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20)

  • Vp Co-Team Meeting (8/8, 8/15)

Goals for this Week:

  • Fix the slides to just include all necessary information

  • Make a great presentation on Friday

  • Complete Final Assessment

Tasks Done:

  • Inserted important information for the slides

  • The final report is mostly finished

  • The slides looked very descriptive and the team has gathered some great information

#Self-assesment #Vaping #Teamwork #Communication #Soft Skills #Virtual-Collaboration

Final Assessment:

Technical Area:

  • Learned many pros and cons of the Halo and Flysense Vaping detector

  • Understood and researched a variety of suggestions to reduce vaping

  • Understood the data results showing a mix of high school and college student that have experienced vaping. From data and presentations, vaping is becoming very popular among high school and college students. Vaping companies may be targeting the youth.

Tools:

  • G-suite

  • Slack and Trello

  • Stem-Away Website

  • WhatsApp

Soft Skills:

  • During this internship communication went very well. All group members communicated to get tasks done

  • Managed time and flexibility

  • Presented with group members virtually

  • Communicated through a group chat

  • All group members were evenly assigned tasks

Three Achievements:

  • I have been in this internship for about 5 weeks and we got the deliverables and final presentations done on time

  • Presented every week with the group members

  • Finished the final presentation

List of Meetings Attended:

  • Vaping Intro Meeting (7/30)

  • VP Team 2 Weekly Meeting (8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24)

  • Week 4 Team 1 Presentations (8/7)

  • Team Meeting #8 (8/27)

  • FPGA Training (7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27)

  • VP Co-Team Meeting (8/8,8/15)

Tasks Done:

  • Finished week 3-6 deliverables

  • Communicated with group members and evenly finished all tasks

  • Have successfully finished and presented the VP Team 2 final presentation

  • Attended all weekly meetings and FPGA training

#Teamwork #Stem-Away #VP-Team2-July #Communication #Self-assesment #Vaping-Pathway #Virtual-Internship #Virtual-Collaboration