To the Moon, We Go!

January 17, 2017 Activities, Class Stuff, IT Amber Blog, Reflections, Soft Skills, Team Building, Teamwork

On Thursday, January 12th, Cheryl made us do an activity with our new teams. We had to rank a list of items that we needed in order to survive in space. The rankings were from 1 to 15 (1 being most important and 15 being least important). We had to do it individually and then collaborate as a team. Whichever team had the least amount of points, won the IT Amber trophy!!!

My team did not win, but we did have a total of 28 points! So we didn’t do too bad!

Throughout the activity, I felt like my team had a bit of a hard time staying on topic because they would start thinking literally, like we were actually going to the moon. Obviously we should take the activity seriously, but I constantly found myself trying to steer the group back to the ranking. I appreciate them for wanting to be logical about this, but we were also pressed for time. We needed to make sure we actually had something down.

I felt like I benefit my group, Amber Alert, in that I like to stick to the task and get stuff done. I enjoyed hearing their thoughts and ideas, and most of what they spent time thinking about, actually helped us get the correct ranking–or at least really close to it.

I really enjoyed this activity and my team! It was a lot of fun! Plus they all know a lot of interesting facts about the moon and space, that I either didn’t learn or forgot!