Ten80 Trip Reflection Journal

                                                 
        Friday March 5th, I was given the opportunity to attend the TEN80 education workshop sponsored by the U.S Army held at York College. It was a really fun event where I participated in a workshop. I noticed that we were all going to attend to a different categories where 6 different workshops were available. The Lead, the Pitch, the Race, the Game, the Beat and the Code. I went to pitch and so I had to follow a girl who was a representative of that single workshop. Afterwards they took us into an area and we were given some little project that we had to complete in small groups or individually. First a guy introduced how to sell a product and gave us background information and knowledge for it since the project we were working on was similar to shark tank. We had to come up with an idea or product and try to sell it and be like salesmen to everyone. So I went into this workshop with Sukanya and I worked with her. The idea we came up were a combination of all different type of glasses but into one pair of glasses. We did not get to present it though. After the workshop we were taken back to the auditorium where they did prize giveaways from the tickets they gave from participation throughout the event. We had lunch and we went back to school afterwards. I personally think this was a fun experience especially since I already did a shark tank project in web design but I was selling my website, so it was like a similar experience. I thought it would be better though if the person that gave the presentation was more enthusiastic and tried to make it more engaging since I could tell people were getting bore and impatient.

WBL Workshop # 2: Career DNA

                                     
               In this WBL workshop, the CTE students learnt about Dynamic Natural Abilities. In this workshop, we discovered our own career DNA (Dynamic Natural Abilities). This workshop was more like finding yourself and what you're good at based on a series of questionnaires and tests based on your personality that we took to find our career path. There are six different areas that tells us if we are compatible with it which are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. The results I got were Realistic, Investigative and Artistic. I would say this is accurate since I am not really social and am kind of shy. I also like drawing and using my hands but am also a visual learner. Also when using my problem solving skills, I am realistic about the decisions/choices and outcomes. These were linked to some career choices which were to do with web design or managing or creating things. This workshop gave me options to see what I could choose from since they could go well with me and I have certain preferences and skills set in those areas.

WBL Workshop #1: WBL Requirements

                                                     
           The first Work Based Learning Workshop for senior year was about the requirement of the Work Base Learning Requirements. In this workshop, the teachers told us about all the required documents and paperwork required to graduate with a CTE diploma and also about internship requirements and volunteer requirements. Moreover, there were also previous CTE students that we had an opportunity to talk to for experience about their internships and what they are doing now. You were able to learn from them and apply their advice to yourself. This workshop was kind of like a wake up call to make sure that you need to hand all of the requirements in or else you won't get the CTE diploma. Part of the requirements were doing an internship, doing community service and getting a letter for proof, reflection journals of trips and all wbl workshops, and more.

Gerson Lehrman Group Reflection Journal

               Gerson Lehrman Group was founded in 1998 by Mark Gerson and Thomas Lehrman as a publishing company focused on sector-specific reports for investors. Later they saw how they could change the way companies conduct primary research and began building a technical infrastructure, creating a new professional learning platform. It connects professionals all around the world  and eventually became a membership of leading experts providing advice for decisions related to businesses for a better outcome. They began hosting small meetings with biotechnology investors and scientist, later expanding beyond healthcare and technology fields with a power and energy practice (Energy and Industrials). Their headquarters is in New York and they have 22 offices globally with around 1,400 employees. GLG formally launched GLG Institute for executives operating in increasingly complex business, regulatory, and technological environments. GLG launched its online video series featuring GLG experts sharing their perspective and insights. The council members share their knowledge and expertise on the following topics: accounting and financial analysis, consumer goods and services, energy and industrials, financial and business services, healthcare, information technology (IT), legal/economic/regulatory affairs, real estate, technology, media and telecommunications. The services they provide are phone consultations, meetings, roundtable discussions, onsite tours, board placement, surveys, and strategic projects. They offer jobs in business development, research/client support, strategy, engineering, operations, and organizing events. I would like to ask them questions regarding computer science and the medical field. I wanted to know more information about those since I am still mostly undecided on what to major. Also I want to ask questions on their personal experiences to how they became an expert and successful, what struggles they overcame and how they knew what they wanted to do with their life.
                 So when I visited the company, I got to take a tour and did networking and met Daryl and Ujin and spoke to them, getting to know each other. During the tour, I noticed that they mostly have colors like red, orange and green. Also I was kind of shocked to see how casual and comfortable the office looked like since it looked like a stress free environment even though they do a lot of work. But there were a lot of flexibility and the advice the guest panelists and CEO gave were entertaining and serious. I had my questions answered during the networking session. I spoke to Ujin who first went into journalism but ended up in sales and she told me that she's in her 20s but still figuring out what she wants to do. Speaking to her made me realize that I should not get too overwhelmed because there are people who are like me still undecided and not sure about their passion but it does not mean that it is impossible to find something that you enjoy. She never could imagine herself in this job before until she gave it a chance. Also I learned that whatever you are interested in or have strong skills in, you should stick with it or the career path that you eventually choose will have those skills and qualities set. This trip made me think more about my future deeply and be more focused on it.

WBL Workshop #6: Be Moneywise Reflection Journal

              In this work based learning workshop, Mr. Franck was a guest speaker and he spoke about important tips for our future success. First he spoke about the research he did on what teens and people in their twenties worry about. Teens usually worried about fitting in and people in their twenties focused on their career and skills. It shows how our minds tend to progress as we get older, psychologically. Then he showed us what was missing on the list of what they should be worrying about which were their privacy that is a privilege, their time management and accumulating wealth. For time management: how you spend your time now will determine how your time is spent in the future. The time that passes by will never come back so it is up to how you utilize it, either productively or by wasting it. Another lesson was to become a learner instead of one who looks to be entertained. So basically open yourself up to learning opportunities even if they aren't fun because you will be able to use your knowledge to your advantage; knowledge is power. By reading a lot you will have a clearer mind and be more educated.

            The formula for wealth is wealth = assets - liability. 

            Humans are creatures of habits so being able to understand your habits and have control over them will help you become successful. You can't solve your problems with the same thinking and habits that you used to create them because it is like doing the same things repeatedly and expecting for a different outcome which is crazy. He also spoke about being an owner instead of a consumer and to create goals for yourself everyday by physically writing them out so you pay more attention to whether or not you completed them. More tips were to guard your reputation and privacy (they're your lifeline), understand your resources and to pay attention to your surroundings. Surround yourself with successful people and you will become successful yourself.

Identity Project Reflection Journal

           For this identity project I first had to wonder about what identity means to me. That was when I noticed that there were so many different ways people can identify themselves based on: their gender, occupation, personality, or on their background, etc. Everyone mostly in the class was doing their website based on themselves but I wanted to be different, I wanted to create an identity website that everyone/anyone can relate to. I thought that why would someone visit my page, why would they want to know about my identity (they don't even know me or really care) so I tried to attract the viewer with something that they can connect with. I tried to work on my visuals because I know that I am lacking in that aspect so I attempted it by creating the fingerprint and identity image by myself. Every person has their own unique fingerprint so that could add on to their unique identity because not everybody is the same. I put a plain black solid background color because I wanted the website to be simple and to emphasize the content mostly, and black and white are good contrasting colors.

       The animation on the homepage tells us that your identity isn't really based on your appearance but whatever you want to be known as. I used jquery for the animation having it hidden and also fade in. On the background info/Religion page, I put all the continents and when you click on the image of a continent you get an alert box telling you about the culture there and and religion. Also when you hover over the continent name, the image slides down, kind of tried to use the accordion effect there for a previous lab I did. On the personality traits/qualities page, I did some research and found the big 5 personality traits and it seemed interesting so I used it as content by dividing each section up with the use of a table and putting images for visual learners. I also put a link where you can take a test and find out which one you can identify with if you aren't sure about it. Then on my sources page, I put down the copyright of all the images and content that I found online. 

Lab 14 Stop Method Reflection Journal

           In this lab, I had to use my previous lab 13 and include a feature. I had to create a stop button that stops the animation and another one that stopped all of the animations and finished it to the end. I did this using the jquery stop() method. Unlike my previous lab, I created another column to put a button to stop each animation specifically for that animation. Then I put a stop all and finish button at the top because it would be easier to stop it if it was in the top and you could notice the difference. It was a bit hard doing this lab because it was a bit frustrating since the page wasn't fully loaded yet so I had to double click the button for it to work instead of clicking it just once and I had to be really fast too. Otherwise this lab was kind of easy since I just had to use the syntax shown below. These skills will help me in the future if I want to show the process of an animation, this could be included if the person that visits my page wants to skip the animation to the end.

The basic syntax is:

$(selector).stop(stopAll, goToEnd);