JA Social Innovation Camp

Refection

Today at the JA Social Innovation Camp, I got the opportunity to experience a day in the life of a business person working with their co-workers on a project to fix a social issue. I thought this experience was very rewarding and fun to work together and get to know people I was not familiar with. I learned that multiple brains thinking together are better than just one. Which concludes that the statement “Two heads are better than” really is true. What I have learned about myself is that I really like hearing what people like to say, encouraging them to speak their thoughts made me feel like it was a real benefit to our team when they came up with awesome ideas that they were afraid to say. Everyone is different and are associated with different backgrounds so the variety in the groups made me learn that together we could accomplish more. Or get through tough ordeals as well. Somethings that really frustrated me were the people that I had to work with... Although it was a very fun and different perspective type of field trip, it would have made a world of a difference if I have a different set of partners. But hey, you’re going to run into hard situations and learn to make the best of it which is what I tried to do. It was frustrating when I had three other people in my group and one girl the whole entire time was just on her phone, I don’t think she did anything to contribute to the group except for read a slide. Another guy just took up our whole entire time and was very hard to work with and agree on ideas with, never was opened for other ideas and when he was he would change them to his way. But in the end we ended up with a decent presentation. I really think this day was important, it was a real learning experience that opened my eyes to the business side of jobs.

There were a great deal of positive aspects from today. First of all meeting new people and getting to know them. Second, finally doing something that exercises our brains in a day rather than busy work at school. Third, at the end seeing everyone within the conference present a proposal that they had no idea about yesterday, and realizing how creative some people can really be when you get them in an environment that they enjoy. Even though the day had its ups ad downs, it was very beneficial!file://localhost/Users/jessica/Desktop/IMG_7559-1.JPG