Week 9

Oh snap. Week 9 is hereee! Wooo. Not that I'm excited, just surprised is all. Time flies when you're having a blast.

This week has been pretty busy if you ask me. The Senior Project slides are due the 13th and at the same time I've had to meet some deadlines this week for BlocPower so it's been filled with work, but it’s been productive. 

I think we will start with the slides and some SRP shenanigans right off the bat. So I am almost done with my slides and so far I did some more research into pilot studies, surveys, and theories (yes surprisingly enough garden theory is a thing). What I had some particular difficulty with was linking my work at BlocPower with my research because while BlocPower does do retrofits, gardens are not the same thing. So when going over my internship experience slide in my head, I decided I wanted to focus on some of the skills I gained from going to meetings and working on sprint teams which you guys will get a taste of if you check out my presentation in early May. I also have been finding interesting ways to communicate the different ways gardens can enhance education. Not to reveal any spoilers but gardens can improve aspects of a student’s learning experience from their interest in nutritional science to even their bonding to a school. However, this information has plenty of caveats because in my analysis of the ways garden-based education improves STEM I am unable to include relevant quantitative data, so my findings are based upon qualitative analyses (a source of error I have included in the powerpoint presentation). I feel like I have said too much already haha but I have to keep the audience somewhat (or not) intrigued.

In addition to that I did a lot of work for the wiki this week (while on the side pushing out some blog content--yay!). That has entailed speaking with the engineering and finance team at BlocPower and figuring out how they want to organize effectively (because currently they have terabytes of files and storage on their computers that need to be managed and moved over). I even made a “how to use wiki” tutorial video which ironically is only available to BlocPower employees through the wiki. 

Anyways thanks for hanging in there with me and here’s my reaction to the Manhattan skyline as well as some photos from where I work.