Week 6, more like this week has been sick (no but seriously I think I am coming down with something). Anyway glad we made it this far guys.
So just as a quick update for the weather on the east coast, snow has provided a very real paradox for me. While I do love sledding down snowy hills and making snow angels, the weather has impacted my involvement with 5th St. Farm. As most people know, gardens and icy, snow-ridden weather do not mix so we will see if that volunteer opportunity will carry out which is slightly disappointing.
But aside from that piece of bad news, this week has been really great. I did most of my research by creating some blog content for BlocPower’s Marketplace website and read into some blog content generated by an intern that previously worked with BlocPower. One of the pieces this author wrote included information about Hempstead High School, a school that installed solar panels in their school and used it to create classes about solar energy. It felt like chance and coincidence mixed as I happened upon this article, because as you all know this is the topic I am researching.
In addition to creating/looking into blog content, I also did some interesting (though that might be relative) work. So I went through a number of python tutorials to prepare myself for the much anticipated wiki site (which amazingly worked yesterday but crashed today). This included a resource called “Automate the Boring Stuff,” a site that a coworker provided and has proved to be really helpful. What’s really exciting is that while the wiki site is being finished, I can spend time learning a different type of code, HTML, which I am in the early stages of becoming involved with.
And then onto the topic of meetings. Meetings this week mostly consisted of talking about our second round of Facebook ads and finishing up the editing of our survey which I mentioned in last week’s post. The results of that survey, if I am not mistaken, should be out next week which I will soon report on. Finally, while we talking abut meetings, I just wanted to mention something interesting that came up in our all hands meeting which is that when our senior team pitches BlocPower to investors they all have to be on the same page about BlocPower’s vision and its scalability (which manifests into the 3 P’s-people, profit, and product) which I thought a valuable piece of marketing advice.
Anyways, ’til next week fellow readers.
