Group Formation & Brainstorming

On the first week of school, we were tasked to go to various rooms to view the different problem statements that we would be tackling for Portfolio 2 (P2) and Full-Stack Development (FSD). I decided to go for the "Saving Lives during a Pandemic" problem statement.

The health industry is one that I've been particularly interested in since young, and it is my strongest belief that with technology, we can improve our current stance against deadly diseases; both ones that we are aware of, and new ones that we may face in the future. As such, it only felt right that I chose this problem statement, as it is one that I had the most interest in.

I proceeded to the classroom, only to find that my friends were in the class too. The formation of our groups began by having our group leaders selected. This was done by getting all of us to write a potential solution to the problem statement, and then having the class vote on the best ones. The top few solutions were selected, and the writers of said solutions were announced as the group leaders. After which, the rest of us had to anonymously write our strengths and weaknesses on a card, upon which the group leaders were to choose who they wanted based on the cards they saw. Surprisingly enough, I was grouped with my friends.

I was happy to be able to work with people I already knew. However, I was worried that conflicts may arise due to the fact that I was working with people considered some of my best and closest friends. I brushed it off, and decided to just do the best I can within the group to ensure good grades for both myself and my teammates.

We decided to kick off our first group meeting by stating our strengths, and I made sure to let it be known to them that my greatest strength would be UI/UX design, as well as front-end development. We felt that it would be better to know immediately what everyone in the group could or could not do so that we can set the necessary boundaries when it came to ideation and not embark on a project that was realistically out of our scope.

We then planned out what we were going to do until the next meeting. I was tasked to do further research on past pandemics with GK. On top of the research, I suggested conducting an interview with my friend in Nursing who had recently completed an attachment at a polyclinic. We decided it best to conduct the interview after we had a better idea of what we wanted to do and narrowed down to a few ideas before conducting the interview.