Overview:
Technical Area:
- Reviewing R, which had become a bit rusty over the school year
- Explored new packages in R, which may potentially be useful when offering technical guidance
- Reviewed my responsibilities as PM Lead and the specific apps and programs I will need to use, including GitHub, Google Calendar, When2Meet, and Google Meets
- Familiarizing myself with the new structure of the website, which had changed since last year
- Along with my responsibilities as PM lead, tasked with leading a subgroup in BI Group D
- Learning about document hosting sites and what they specifically do
- Designing an example site that will be the basis for my site for the final project itself
Tools:
- STEM-Away
- RStudio
- R
- Google Calendar
- Google Meets
- When2Meet
- GitHub
- DropBox
- Google Drive
- Airtable
Soft Skills:
- Time Management - Responsibilities are much more than when I was an intern last year. Needed to manage time better so I was able to finish everything in a timely manner
- Technical Ability - Though my responsibilities are more focused on the logistics of projects, relearning R would let me provide technical assistance if needed. I can help the technical leads if there any anything that they might find confusing as well
- Communication/Character - In order to my position to work I need to be both communicative and approachable to everyone. Everyone needs to be able to feel comfortable talking to me so I needed to do whatever I needed to do that
- Logistical Ability - Learned a lot of new “logistics” and “group management” programs that help organize groups of large amounts of people. These skills will become crucial during the project itself
Achievement Highlights:
- Was able to meet the other BI PM Lead, Disha, who was also a high schooler in the same grade as I am
- Remet some of my old lead, like Sarah, and it was awesome seeing her as a pathway mentor this year!
- Refreshed my memory on R in case I need to provide technical assistance
- Learned a lot of logistical programs that I predict I will use a lot later on
- Figured out problems with my email account
Difficulties Completing Tasks:
- R was a bit hard to relearn. I knew that I needed to reach a point where I was better than when I left off last summer because I remembered being very unsatisfied with my final project last year.
- Communicating with people significantly older than me was a bit daunting at first, but I became more comfortable the more I interacted with them. Everyone is extremely friendly and well-adjusted!
- Some of the logistical programs took a while to learn because of how different they were to what I was accustomed to
- I had some sudden things happen this week, so I wasn’t able to make some meets
- Balancing this with other things I have plus college applications really meant I needed to balance my time well