What, So What? Now what?

At the community service event, everyone was friendly and lively. People wanted to help out on the bike and all were distraught when something went wrong. Once we got the bike built correctly, everyone was relieved and it was an accomplishment.

I thought the experience would be just building bikes, not doing social team building exercises. I also did not expect so much difficulty in assembling the bike, as many problems occurred when we built ours. However, our team was able to fix the problems that we had encountered through teamwork (like holding one piece while the other piece needed to be put in place..)

Some students were more mechanically adept than others, which allowed them to fix certain types of problems. I think this reflects on the collaborative nature of research. Although, one can usually accomplish a goal, a collaborated effort yields better reliability and speed.