Week: 1, 2, and 3
Overview of Things Learned:
Technical Area:
- Downloaded and understood how Quartus works and how to use the virtual board.
- Learned about FPGAs, truth tables, and logic gates. I went over the Intel Intro to FPGAs lecture and lab.
- Learned how to formulate good survey questions.
- Learned details about existing vaping detectors in the current market and how they work.
Tools:
- GSuite: GMail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Meet, Google Groups, Google Sheets, and Google Calendar
- Trello
- Slack
- Stem-Away Platform
- Quartus
Leadership/Soft Skills:
- Understood LinkedIn and gave my team a presentation about LinkedIn and how to develop an effective profile.
- As more participants were added to the team, I had to be adaptive and organized, so that the new participants could catch up and know their responsibilities. So, I held extra office hours and had a separate intro meeting with new participants to get them up to speed.
- Communicated with my team through an anonymous survey to see what I could improve on. Also I communicate regularly to inform members about the week’s schedule, their responsibilities for the week, and any important updates.
- Check different communication methods daily to be available to answer any questions.
- Delegated the participants to organize the events for the happy hours.
Three Achievement Highlights
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Created an open environment for team
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Organized educational trainings to better understand the technical side of the internship after conversing with Intel Experts.
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I was proactive and talked to Debaleena about some problems the team was having. Our solution was to increase participants. After getting more new participants, I was able to quickly organize everything and get them up to speed with the internship.
Meetings organized/attended
- Team Meetings: 7/14, 7/20, 7/27
- FPGA Trainings: 7/16, 7/23, 7/30
- Happy Hours: 7/17, 7/24, 7/31
- Office Hours: 7/22, 7/29, 7/31, 8/1, 8/2
- Co-Team Meeting: 8/1
- Meeting with Intel Experts: 7/20, 7/29
Goals for the Upcoming Week
- Keep encouraging participants and observers to continue to be active and feel comfortable to ask questions
- Continue growing my network and maintaining my connections
#teamwork #vaping-device #problem-solving #team-building
Week: 4
Overview of Things Learned:
Technical Area:
- Worked on revised lab from Intel Experts
- Did research on block diagrams of Halo, Flysense, and smoke detectors
- Continued learning details about existing vaping detectors in the current market and how they work.
- Listed suggestions of reducing vape and assessed their feasibility
Tools:
- GSuite: GMail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Meet, Google Groups, Google Sheets, Google Calendar, and Google Forms
- Trello
- Slack
- Stem-Away Platform
- Quartus
- Github
Leadership/Soft Skills:
- Gave my team a soft skills presentation on creativity (fluency and flexibility) by doing the 30 circles activity.
- Communicated with my team through an anonymous survey to see what I could improve on and how they would like the internship to go.
- Communicate regularly to inform members about the week’s schedule, their responsibilities for the week, and any important updates.
- Check different communication methods daily to be available to answer any questions.
- Delegated the participants to organize the events for the happy hours and deliver weekly presentations.
Three Achievement Highlights
- Caught all new members up to speed
- Learning about the technical aspect from Intel Experts and then organizing educational trainings for participants
- Presenting on soft skills that my team is interested in learning
Meetings organized/attended
- Team Meetings: 8/3
- Meeting with Intel Experts: 8/4
- Office Hours: 8/5
- FPGA Trainings: 8/6
- Happy Hours: 8/7
- Week 4 Presentations Meeting: 8/7
- Co-Team Meeting: 8/8
Goals for the Upcoming Week
- Keep encouraging participants and observers to continue to be active and feel comfortable to ask questions
- Continue growing my network and maintaining my connections
- Get most if not all participants to have Quartus working correctly
#teamwork #vaping-device #problem-solving #team-building #collaboration #soft-skills #fpga #quartus
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Week: 5
Overview of Things Learned:
Technical Area:
- Worked on revised lab and calculator project from Intel Experts
- Improved my Verilog coding skills
- Learned about the hardware and technological aspect of the Halo IOT Vaping detector from the VP of Operations and R&D at Halo
- Continued researching block diagrams to design my own block diagram
Tools:
- GSuite: GMail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Meet, Google Groups, Google Sheets, Google Calendar, and Google Forms
- Trello
- Slack
- Stem-Away Platform
- Quartus
- Github
Leadership/Soft Skills:
- Researched and delivered a soft skills presentation to my team about resume building
- Checked all the platforms to answer any of the questions asked by the participants and the observers
- Continuously sent friendly reminders throughout the week to remind my team members of upcoming due dates and to update their work status in StemAway and slack
Three Achievement Highlights:
- Met with the VP of operations of Halo and learned about their process of using the Vaping detector to mitigate vaping
- Researched more on block diagrams in order to create our own design of our vaping detector
- Delegated tasks to the team that goes well with what our final presentation is going to look like
List of Meetings/Trainings Attended:
- Team Meetings: 8/10
- Meeting with Intel Experts: 8/11
- Office Hours: 8/12
- FPGA Training:8/12
- Meeting with Halo VP: 8/14
- Happy Hours: 8/14
- Co-Team Meeting: 8/15
Goals for the Upcoming Week:
- Continue growing my network and maintaining my connections
- Work on reports and aim to be published
- Improve my Verilog and Quartus skills
#blockdiagram, #collaboration, #fpga, #quartus, #soft-skills