Team Assessments
Prepare a 100-word paragraph from the team (to include input from the teacher, technical
advisor and the students) on how teaming progressed throughout the program duration.
Like a hive full of bees, our team diligently worked week after week to create a
solution to the real world problem of spent nuclear fuel. The basis of our team’s
success was our excellent communication. Throughout our project, our team was able
to relay new ideas effectively, which allowed us to synthesize ideas together to
create our elegant solution. But unlike our communication, our teamwork could have
been better. While our veteran members efficiently worked together, some of the
newer members did not collaborate as well. Our team leader also found it infuriating
that an assignment had to be distributed more than once. This caused frustration
among members, and in turn, resulted in the team lagging behind in the overall project.
Prepare a 100-word paragraph from the team on what they learned about researching
and innovating a solution to a real world problem throughout the program's duration.
Nuclear science is a very broad and in-depth subject to research. Our team had to
gather a multitude of background information before we were even able to specify
a product. It was difficult at times to find current information and we frequently
found that we had to discard previous research due to a discovery of more updated
data. Some of the information was not publicly available due to the danger associated
with nuclear power. As we accumulated knowledge on nuclear technologies, we advanced
towards being able to conceptualize our product. Our extensive investigations proved
to be imperative in developing the unique twist that made our product original.
List three recommendations from the team (to include input from the teacher, technical
advisor and the students) concerning lessons learned.
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Initially, our team believed research on this topic to be very complex and overwhelmingly
time consuming, but as our project progressed to its later stages, we became research
experts that were able to skim over irrelevant information to discover valuable
knowledge.
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Procrastination was at one point in our development a primary issue, but as the
dead line approached and mutual frustration grew, team members began taking the
initiative to submit completed work in a timely manner.
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Communication between team members is essential for success. We often found that
unless we worked together, progress was going to go slower, much slower. In order
to become more efficient in our work, we quickly adapted to become a team that could
accumulate knowledge together and move towards a common goal.