This past week was especially tough to juggle everything as I had some competing deliverables for work to handle, but we had some really productive meetings as we’re wrapping up some of the final details for our project. Most importantly though, I feel so lucky to be on a supportive team that’s really being generous with their time and care for each other.

On Sunday we brainstormed some ideas for our project trailer that we can use for future outreach and social media efforts. We heard feedback from last week’s presentation about showing off more of our student submissions, so the trailer will really amplify some of the stand out pieces. While we’d love to include a portion of this video during the final presentation, we’re going to avoid any awkward zoom issues that might happen with that. Instead we’re focusing on pumping our slides full of these student stories in creative ways. Does anyone know how to make a gif?

We also had fun going around the call where each of us did a lightning 20 second pitch of what our project is to inspire that opening energy that every good presentation has. One of our goals with this presentation is to be memorable to the audience on the day of the showcase. During an evening Zoom call with back to back projects, it’s easy for anyone to zone out a little even though this class has done some seriously impressive work. I’m so inspired after watching the other group accomplishments last week, and I can’t wait for the rest of the GC (and some public viewers) to also be blown away by what we’ve built.

In the meantime, I continue to focus on keeping the team updated and on track by providing meeting notes, agenda items, and heads up on upcoming milestones. I’m happy my organization skills could be useful to this project. I’m also very thankful that I work with wonderful project managers that I can model my role off of.