Self-Assessment (up to Week 5)
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Technical Areas
- Went from a level of almost no R experience to pretty good foundational knowledge of R in bioinformatics (how to generate useful plots and visualize data)
- Learned more about Bioconductor packages and how they are useful for bioinformatics and data analysis
- Learned how to what PCA and clustering were and how to perform those
- Learned the best way to communicate technical information in a concise and digestible manner
- Worked with Goral to create and manage the GitHub repository for our team
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Leadership Skills
- gained communication skills (especially how to manage such a big team all virtually)
- learned how to take negative feedback and apply it to become a better leader
- Figured out ways to break the ice and have more people talking in meetings
- Successfully communicated both with mentors and other leads at meetings to break down tasks and schedule deliverables/timeline for the week
- worked with Isha to conduct weekly happy hours
- Led four technical webinars with other leads, as well as made meeting agendas and decks for the team meetings (bi-weekly)
- Presented soft skills training during team meetings with Isha
- Attended and helped with weekly office hours for the two teams
- Communicated effectively with the leads about technical details of tasks
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Tasks Completed
- All weeks deliverables up to now
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Achievements :
- Became a lead with almost no prior R experience or bioinformatics experience, but was able to keep up with the learning
- Led team meetings with big teams of up to 30 people
- Able to guide participants as a leader without having the most technical experience going in
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Meetings/Trainings attended :
- All the meetings that I hosted and all the leads/mentor meetings
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Goals
- Finish out the project strong and keep participants/observers engaged
- Maintain the network I grew here even after the internship
- This coming week, help ramp up the next session while making sure to check-in with the participants in the current one