Entrepreneurship

Reflection

This project was the first time that I worked with a group larger than a few people (this group contained 15-20 students). We underestimated how difficult it would be to decide on a topic or coordinate everyone for filming. If I could go back, I would have built in more time for that so the people in charge of editing the video were not so pressed for time. Also, this was the first time I tried teaching a topic to a full class of people rather than a few at a time. It was more difficult than I anticipated to make a product that would be engaging and useful to everyone in the class, especially since students enter CHEM 101 from such a variety of backgrounds. Some students had never seen the material before, and some were very familiar with the material from taking AP Chemistry in high school. This experience showed me how useful personalized learning can be in teaching everyone at their level.

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GCSP Connection

This met the expectations for a GCSP entrepreneurship experience because it is a ENTR elective. It was vaguely related to Engineering Better Medicines. Chemistry as a science is instrumental in the development of new and better drugs. More specifically, atmospheric pressure and temperature can affect people’s health, and this experience improved my knowledge of the laws affecting them, and (hopefully) will improve the knowledge of others. It was also vaguely related to Personalized Learning, because the learning that we did as a class was very personalized based on what our interests were.

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This experience contributed to teamwork because we had to coordinate a large group for this project. This let me practice skills like assessing weaknesses and strengths of team members and delegation. It also contributed to persistence and flexibility since we had several challenges during the process and had to use these skills to overcome them. I also developed realistic vision when picking a topic and writing the script, since there were many things we would have liked to do but were not able to due to constraints.

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Learning Objectives

• Develop strategies for recognizing opportunities and identifying the tools for quality risk assessment. We recognized opportunities in the areas most commonly misunderstood, but there were no real risks involved with this project other than loss of time.

• Exhibit skills for communicating ideas in a concise and logical way. I demonstrated this through my effective suggestions during brainstorming of topics and ways to represent them as a video.

• Work effectively in teams focused on entrepreneurship-related projects. In this project I worked with the entire class as a team, as well as smaller sub-team of writers.

• Apply entrepreneurial thinking to social issues and social problems. Creating a video to teach CHEM 101 students works towards solving the social problem of quality education for all through providing resources so students can learn in a variety of ways, not just traditional lecture.

• Apply creative and innovative thinking to solve problems. There are lots of videos that lecture on the gas laws, we tried to be creative in our presentation of gas molecules as analogous to people at a party.