Self Assessment Megan Chan Vaping Project 3/8/20
Technical Area:
- I sent out the survey to friends and tried to get as many responses.
- Was more informed about vaping and FPGAs
- Installed Quartus and files
- Learned about Intel , watched videos, Trello, Slack
- Created an Linkedin Account
- Became more familiar with Stem-Away website
Soft Skills:
- Learning through virtual meetings
- Communication through virtual meetings/emails/happy hour
Three Achievements:
- Trying to catch up on three weeks of work
- Attending most of the meetings
- Working my head around the software - eg Quartus and files
Goals for upcoming week:
- To meet and work with my group (team 4)
- discover more intel training videos
- learn to use excel
What I did this week:
- Went to Office Hours when I had questions- they were extremely useful
- Yesterday I learned about the HALO IOT detector when other subteams were presenting
- Learned about Flysense detector when other teams were presenting. Was extrremely interesting and useful especially when my subteam are also doing this detector.
Megan Chan - Vaping Pathway - Self Assessment
Self Assessment 8/8/20 Megan Chan Vaping Pathways
Technical Area:
- Learned much more about Flysense Vaping Detector, its components, structure, how it works, benefits, flaws and improvements of the system.
- Learned how to access/use excel
- Compared survey results, analysed data, interesting/unusual responses, worked on powerpoint,
- Quartus Logic Trainer Quiz
- Became more familiar with Slack and communicated with member of my team
Tools:
Google Drive, Quartus, gmail, whatsapp, google meets, google calendar, google slides, stemaway forum, Slack, Trello
Soft Skills:
- Organised a google meeting on friday with my subteam (Team 4 and 5) to discuss presentation and meet
- Communicated through whatsapp with my team to organise and divide up tasks for Week 3 deliverables
- Updated my Linkedin account and made connections with stemaway interns
Three Achievements
- We communicated and worked well as a team and improved my communication and organisation skills
- Finally got my camera and mic working on google meeting. I learned how to use google calendar to host and organise meetings with my team
- Improving my FPGA training and become more familiar with Quartus programme
Meetings attended:
3/8/20 team meeting
6/8/20 FPGA training
met with team 4/5 to discuss presentation
7/8/20 Presentations
8/8/20 coteam meeting
Goals for the upcoming week:
- Attend a Happy Hour
- Complete week 4 delivarables
- Attend more FPGA trainings and become more comfortable with Quartus
#teamwork #selfassessment #teambuilding #vaping #communication #leadership
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Megan Chan - Vaping Pathway - Self Assesment Week 5 16/08/20
Technical Area:
- Learned more about the Flysense Vaping detector block diagram.
- Downloaded Trello on my phone to improve organisation skills and tick off tasks
- Learned about how to reduce vaping in general, how to limit purchases of vapes near schools and problems associated with vaping
- Caught up on last Thursdays FPGA trainings and watched last Mondays presentation.
- Did Milestones post
Tools:
Google Drive, Quartus, gmail, whatsapp, google meets, google calendar, google slides, stemaway forum, Slack, Trello
Soft Skills:
- Getting to know my team better through virtual meetings and whatsapp
- Becoming more confident presenting myself to the Vaping teamon google meets
- Communicating well with my team, dividing up tasks, being responsive and in touch
Three Achievements:
- My team presented week 3 and 4 deliverables, it went very well
- Completing tasks on time
- Catching up on this weeks work
Meetings attended:
- watched videos uploaded on google drive - presentations monday 10/8 and FPGA trainings 13/8
- 15/8 coteam meeting
Goals for the upcoming week:
- Improve technical skills
- Read the IntroLab Remote board manuel
- Attend all meetings and completing all tasks on time
- Complete week 5 deliverables and start working on week 6
#communication #teambuilding #teamwork #vaping #selfassessment #organisationskills #presentationskills
Megan Chan - Vaping Pathway - Self Assessment Week 6 25/08/20
Technical Area:
- Wrote a formal report - Suggestions how to reduce vaping and mitigation plan - how one can limit use of vaping device, how to limit purchases of vapes near schools and affect demographics, its challenges.
- Presented week 6 and 7 deliverables
- Learning more about FPGAs and Intel
- Watched meeting with flysense on drive
- Learning more about detectors in more detail and analyzing survey results from the other groups
Soft skills:
- Communicated and worked extremely well with my new subteam - suggestions team through virtual settings
*Checking stemaway website and emails regularly, being in touch,
- Improving my presentation and teambuilding skills
Three achievements
- Completed a formal report with my team.
- Presenting week 5 and week 6 deliverables
- Being organised and completing tasks on time.
Meetings attended
- watched video uploaded on google drive - Meeting with mandy and flysense 21/8
- presentations 17/8
- FPGA meeting 20/8
- coteam meeting 22/8
- presentation 24/8
Goals for the upcoming week
- complete and present final presentation
- Less text on the slides- more focused bulletpoints when presenting
- become more familiar with different time zones
Final Self Assessment Megan Chan Vaping Pathway Week 7
Summary
Technical Area
- Learned about FPGAs, Quartus and files,watched intel videos, logic trainer,
- Created Trello, Slack, Linkedin accounts
- Learned about Halo and Flysense detectors in detail - its components, structure, flaws, strengths, improvements, block diagrams
- Learned how to write a formal report - suggestions how to reduce vaping and implementation plan
- analysing survey data
- Learned about the challenges of quitting vaping, how to reduce it, the health risks and how it affects students today.
Soft Skills
- Communicated extremely well with my team members through virtual settings and we worked well
- Made connections through Linkedin
- Improving organisation skills completing tasks on time getting my part done
- Improving presentation skills and confidence
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Tools:
- Google drive, quartus, gmail, google slides, google docs, whatapp, google calendar, stemaway forum, slack, trello, linkedin, google meets,
Three achievements:
- Technical work
- Completed all deliverables on time and working well with my team
- Completing and presenting the final presentation
Meetings attended this week:
- 24/8 presentations
- watched FPGA training 27/08 on google drive
- 28/8 final presentions