Innovator's Space | SC

This reflection follows the Ranning model of reflection. What Happened? We did the marshmallow challenge again. Think and feel - What were you thinking and feeling? This was the second time doing this so we felt that we would be able to do this better than last time. I thought that we could take what went well and what did not go well last time and come up with a better way to do it this time. I was hoping that we would use an assembly line sort of system to build with more efficiency. Evaluate - what was good and bad about the experience? This time we used the same structure that we used last time, with slight differences. But that did not happen until we finished arguing, this time for a longer duration of time. This time, some people believed that we need to switch to a new structure design, while some people thought that we could improve on the design we had last time. In the end, we didn't have a choice but to make what we made last time, with small improvi...

This reflection follows the Ranning model of reflection. What Happened? The class split into two groups and competed to come up with the tallest free-standing spaghetti tower with a marshmallow on top. Both teams were given 20 spaghetti sticks, some tape, some string, and a marshmallow.  Think and feel - What were you thinking and feeling? I was thinking that it was going to be easy because (I initially thought) all we had to do was tape the sticks up in a structural fashion and the building would be tall. Instead, the spaghetti sticks were way more fragile than I originally expected. It felt like one small mistaken move will destroy the entire structure that we were working on and we had to be very careful. Evaluate - what was good and bad about the experience? This experience was good in that we were forced to cooperate, even though we all had difference ideas for the building. We couldn't argue about the best idea/concept forever because of limited time and c...

This reflection follows the Ranning model of reflection. What Happened? We partnered up in groups of twos and interviewed each other (using the same process as the Ideal birthday experience activity) to find out what the client's ideal locker design would be like, and design it with sketches and descriptions and then ideate to create a better prototype. Think and feel - What were you thinking and feeling? It felt like this activity was a lot easier to do than the last one because it was much more relatable for me than the previous activity. It was, in a sense, easier because I have had the same experience of owning a school locker and empathy is achieved with less effort as it stems from a shared experience. Evaluate - what was good and bad about the experience? The good part was that this time, I tried to use better questions that lead to a more discussion-based interview instead of getting yes or no responses. I was able to extract more information using this...

This reflection will follow the Gibbs reflective cycle. Future reflections will follow the Ranning model of reflection. Description - What happened? By following the steps given in the worksheet, I interviewed a classmate and designed an “ideal birthday experience” for her. This included finding out exactly what the client needed and gathering insights to define a problem statement and later creating 3 preliminary sketches of possible solutions based on the problem statement. The 3rd drawing happened to be the closest to the client's “ideal experience” so it was used as the base idea for the final prototype. It was presented with a simple 9 step flow chart to portray the chronological events of the birthday experience. Questions, what worked, and additional ideas were collected and documented. Feelings - What were you thinking and feeling? I have to say that the first step of the process was the most difficult for me, and I struggled a lot on trying to gain empathy ...