This Wednesday I attended the Junior Achievement Social
Innovation Camp. Going into the day I was somewhat excited, I figured that it
would be a pretty good day. Lucky fore me I was right. It was a great day and
it seemed like all my fellow CAL high iQuest peeress had a good time to.
Stating out the day we played an icebreaker game with our
teams. We had to billed a tower with paper: the goal was to produce the tallest
tower in the room. Looking around the room many teams seemed to be breaking
down the hesitant walls. But within my group it was awkward. There isn’t really
another word for it “awkward” described it well. There were 3 people in my
team: One Mona Vista iQuest girl, one Dorerty Valley iQuest girl, and me. The
rezones why it was awkward wasn’t because we all were from different school, it
was because no one talked it seemed like they didn’t really want to be there.
When we went up stares to the conference room that we were given to working in,
it took us a long time to come up with ideas. I stared just spit balling ideas eventually
I thought of a lesson I had in sports med. The lesson consisted of an article
and a video, it was about how more and more often teens and other whys healthy
or athletic people drop dead from hart problems with little to no warning. I explained
how this is happening and how the only way to preventing it is screening test
but how they are expensive to do especially widely spared. My group liked this
idea and so we went with it. I liked it to, its something that I am interested
in so I was feeling good with the idea. Its ware we took the idea, the
direction we ran with it I didn’t like. Our presentation and power point didn’t
do the idea justice.
After we decided on our social problem we began to look on
line for exciting technology, that would
provide a serves that we could tweak and twist to make it our own. We found the
Bio-patch. The product is a paper thin Band-Aid like patch that senses and records
frequencies such as hart beat, nerve waves, brain waves even muscular tenancies
and firing patterns depending on ware on the body it was placed. This product
was exactly what we were looking fore, to make it our own we wanted to give the
patch Wi-Fi or data to allow the patch to send the data to an application on
your smart phone and or to your primary care doctors’ computer. This would allow
testing and scanning to become more affordable and allow an insight to the body’s
responses to every day activitys. I was excited and happy with what we were
coming up with, in till we stated the power point presentation.
The Dority valley girl placed her self at the computer and
from the beginning. I read her as a cookie-cutter with out the ability to think
for her self, to think deeply about a problem and the solution. Because of this our power point
and presentation was shallow and didn’t present the product in all its wealth. During all of this the Mona Vista girl said rather
little. The one thing that I am still
kicking my self for is not speaking last in our presentation. Instead I went first and I was so worded
about what was pacifically on the two slides I was presenting that I read them
and of course I planked and almost went in to panic when I simply could not
read the word “take.” This got our presentation of to a rocky stat. I wish I
went last because because of my dyslexia I am a good big pitcher thinker and in
presentation I always do best going at the end and summing up the point and
adding more depth to the importance of the product.
But what really gets me is how both of two girls in my group
both seamed to have a twisted view of the point of iQuest. They both were
looking at it as time the can use for them selves not really for something they
are passionate about. This confused me and made it seem not vary worthy of the
iQuest name.
To some it up it was a good day full of new experiences. I’m
really happy that I got the chance to go and see more closely to what happened
in big business. I wish more people my
age had this opportunity to do these things or even want to do them that’s the
said truth about the majority of our generation.
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