Personal Reflection: EWB Challenge
Task Overview:
A major part of this unit involves work in a project team to address a practical issue in a developing community through the EWB Challenge. You will each bring a unique set of skills and strengths to this project based on your personal experiences, which you will build upon through research and working with others. This assignment requires you to reflect on your past experiences, and resulting strengths and perceptions that could help to complete the project tasks ahead. This reflection is important for tuning in and orienting yourself to the project.
Task Details:
Think of an example of an experience or exposure that you have had, which is related to community development, addressing issues in developing communities, designing solutions to practical problems, and/or simply working in a team. Then, in one or two coherent paragraphs:
- Describe the experience or exposure, with a focus on your role or situation.
- Identify some understandings, strengths and/or skills that you gained from this experience, and how these were acquired.
- Explain how these understandings, strengths and/or skills could help you to engage in the EWB team challenge.
Your experiences, for example, could include situations:
- That you been exposed to in your own community/ family/ friendship group, or when travelling
- Where you have noticed simple yet effective solutions applied to community issues or needs
- Where you have helped to come up with a simple design solution to a practical problem
- Where you have played a part in a team at work, school or sport
- Captured within a film or documentary that you have seen, with relevance to a community development context.
Extra information:
As this assignment is a personal reflection, you are expected to employ personal pronouns; for example, ‘I’ and ‘me’. However, please nonetheless write in formal academic style; that is, with correct grammar, spelling and sentence structure, no slang, no abbreviations, no contractions, and no colloquial terms.