During the community service event this past Sunday, I observed a lot of activity and interaction. All the teams there were participating in the activities that were given to us. I saw the methods other teams used to get the tasks done and compared and contrasted them to the methods my team used. I saw other teams get parts and build their bikes just like my team. And I saw the families when they came to pick up the bikes at the end of the activities. I lot of the activities we did I had done before or at least something similar. The exception was the chicken toss thing, which was new to me. I helped launch the chicken into the smaller hula hoop, which I was proud of. That activity took a while but we finally got it done.
The community service event was different because it was really more of a social event than community service. We did build a few bikes which made the kids happy, and I was grateful for that, but I felt like with all the people there we could have made a lot more bikes than what we did and made even more kids happy. I think that's the part about this event that I didn't like, that we didn't do as much as we could have. I liked that we were in groups because I felt like getting advice and feedback from others really helped, especially when it came to actually building the bike (because I have no idea how to build one).
Something that I observed at the community service event that I could apply to my research is learning from other peoples methods. If I'm trying to do something and it isn't working out I could see how someone else in lab is doing it and learn from them, Another thing is communication ,because in order to get the tasks done my team had to talk to each other constantly, and I think the same thing goes for research. If I could do the activities differently I think I would make fewer of them, just so we'd have more time to work on the bike and possibly make more than one bike.
I agree with the idea that we should have had time to make more bikes to give to more kids.
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