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📚14th Week of the Semester (Finals)

📓The Final Pitch

The day that we have been anxiously preparing has come and done. The final pitch of our product was accomplished though not as we expected. Nonetheless, everyone on the team contributed solemnly hence the lacking hours of sleep. 

Although, our pitch was not as strong as we anticipated but as to the panels criticism there could still be room for improvements and deliberate traction of the planning. In spite of it all, we were glad to wrap everything up and could surely hope everything weve learned would be put to use in our future endeavors. Of everything, a big thanks to my team. Congrats to us! 

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📚13th Week of the Semester (Finals)

📓The Presentation of the Business Model Canvas

From days of thorough discussions and lacking hours of sleep, we’ve finally presented our business model canvas. Taking on our instructors criticism and suggestions and further illuminations to our product, we now have a better picture as to what would our product will be if ever we will pitch in into our final presentation. We could have a better look up and consider changes unto our products values. As at first we didnt quite understand what to put on the other aspects of our canvas.

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📚12th Week of the Semester (Finals)

📓Christmas Break

We dont have much going on since its the coming of our christmas break. Lately, we’ve discussed our upcoming plans and progress for our products but until then we may have just get on our own ways to celebrate the holiday and will get back unto it next year.

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📚11th Week of the Semester (Finals)

📓Market Size

To initially get our possible market size, we researched the total number of our market and summed our obtainable market. But beforehand, we firstly discussed and understand the terms of the following subjects and eventually we manage to comprehend it easily.

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📚10th Week of the Semester (Finals)

📓Business Model Canvas

This week planned our business model, we read and discussed the PowerPoint provided and set to create a draft of our canvas. We didnt quite comprehend each aspects and what to put on the canvas. But on further illumination we manage to analyze what we should put in whatever the necessary informations on the model.

It not quite finish but will get back unto it on further instructions from our instructor.

[gwyynth]

📚9th Week of the Semester (Finals)

📓Game 7

The team assigned tasks to do this activity in which the half of the team identifies the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats. and the other half of the team did further research on to our possible competitors and its demeanors in which we could help identify our SWOT analysis thoroughly.

As we conducted further research, we realized that we still have to up our game so that our product should have some distinct attributes and features that could intrigue users to use our product.

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📚8th Week of the Semester (Finals)

📓Wellness Week

We really dont have much going on at the moment as we want to enjoy this given program that our counselors upheld. We were advised (for the time being) to set aside our academic resposibilities just for this week to commemorate our mental health. As so we did.

But from time to time, we worked on the games in which we need to identify our target markets and obtainable users.

[gwyynth]

📚7th Week of the Semester (Finals)

📓The Beginning of Pre-Final

We did further interviews with our clients to have more insight on to what coukd we add or to better understand their preferences to further elaborate the qualities of our product. They most likely suggested to have features that could help them stimulate their settled schedules.

We were glad to uphold another set of interviews as it helped us to pitch our products’ lacking and need for innovation.

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📚6th Week of the Semester

📓The Last Midterm Game

We did the last game this week, we provided at least 5-7 possible segment and we’re going to cast 5 votes to which we think who will be the our potential costumers.

After our vote casting, we’ve have settled to the segment of people who are mostly likely wants to plans out, and were also struggling to manage their schedules and routines (typically students and office workers who are more likely to procrastinate). And we then discussed the impact and efforts that our goal would probably achieve as we market our product.

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📚5th Week of the Semester

📓The further interview

We had a brief discussion and gathered all our insight on the issue of our pitch. And as a remedy, we’ve interviewed more clients. The following day, we also consulted some parents (who has students as their child that could or may have to use our app), some were supportive and okay to whatever definite counter to the app.  And it’s such a relief to have an extroverted team member, because they could single-handedly commence the interviews and all I have to do is follow, observe, and record the conversations.  

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📚4th Week of the Semester

📓Game 4 

We had just commenced our interview, and personally it was nerve racking because I’m not used to confrontations and initiating a conversation. But thankfully, my teammates were eager to put up the shoes to do the task, But I’m still there to help record the interviews.

We also did our Game 4 VPC and it was an easy and comprehensive discussion. We have mutal understanding as to what to put on our VPC.

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📚3rd Week of the Semester

📓Game 3

We discussed game 3 in person, and frankly, we were struggling to understand the instructions of the game, specifically the empathy map. But we manage to understand it with thorough comprehension. We narrowed down our topic and we came to conclude on the specific natural resource which is water consumption. As we roleplayed, the discussion went on for hours. The learning and sharing of experiences and facts, disagreeing, and agreeing on things were really enlightening and informative.

It was the second time we discussed something in person, though it was a brain squeeze as we are figuratively squeezing our brains out for ideas for hours, it’s actually quite fun.

We get to share things we know and learned the things we don't know.

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📚2nd Week of the Semester

📓Game 2

The second week was eventful. And in making of the game 2, we discussed it via Gmeet. Our global goal was the sustainable consumption and production of resources. We hope to provide a solution on how to have or to be sustainable on a particular resource like water.

The question we agreed upon to put on our consensus was “Why are natural resources abused?” We gave 5 possible causes to the abuse of natural resources. We thought that the over consumption of the natural resources was the primal global issue that we faced for decades. The dicussion ended with us having the same ideas and thoughts as we were totally on track of what we are trying to discuss.

[gwyynth]

📚1st Week of the Semester:

📓My Berkeley Innovative Index Test Result👇

In my Berkeley Index Test, I've discovered that I still lack the innovative mindset. I have to work on my comfort zone and collaborate a bit more. It would be a challenge for an introverted person like myself to engage, trust, and initiate ideas to others since I usually prefer to work alone (at times) but I will try to take remedy. I need to start to learn how to open up and share my understandings, learn to gain trust in order to collaborate. When we first got the activity, I always hesitate to speak up thinking I might jumble my words and couldn't express my thoughts of the certain topic, then sometimes I find myself (thinking) that I should settle my own ideas and we should prefer it instead of consulting the group first but gladly I didn't let my intrusive thoughts get to me. I realized that its a major red flag (as we put it in this generations terms) to have that kind of thoughts as a member of the group. I need to change that side of myself, every ideas that I could come up with should be discuss with the group so that it could be validated and agreed upon. I think I have offered valid points during our discussion as a group, I hope I did. If it did, I think it also let others open to their own ideas to the table and let the others made the chosen topic an idea and think it through.

📓My Personality Test Result👇

It’s not a shock to me that my result would be INFP cause I knew that I would be an INFP. I've taken the test before (I think I was in Grade 11) and the result is still the same as now. I thought it would change that I could be INTP this time cause I think I've been rational and ‘collecting my thought/following my mind instead of listening to my feelings’ nowadays, but I guessed wrong. But deep down I still knew I will end up being the one who still rely on the emotional side of things. But there is nothing wrong with ‘relying on your feelings’, it just means that you have a strong sense of morals and values that you've set to yourself, the mindset of ‘always knowing what’s good for everyone’. That’s the role of being a mediator, you always see and understand the two side of things and balanced it out. On the other hand, being introverted is sometimes a handful when it comes to interacting with others, however being an INFP is more of a blessing to me cause it gives me a good sense towards the feelings of others as if I'm usually adaptive and have a strong sense of empathy. The only downside of myself is I show up from time to time but disappear for 2 to 4 business days or weeks even. I find isolation comforting as every introverts think, which is not good when keeping up with relationships and appointments. I don't want to change myself, instead I just need to work more on how I collaborate with people on being in the presence of the workplace, be available on times of the appointments, and be engaging to social gathering from time to time, so that I could be updated to the latest up bringing's from the group.