Group 4 Reflection Essay

stem 4 project was an interesting learning experience. It forced me to work with battalion that I havent worked with before, take into account our teams different opinions and make the most step forward of what we had. We started out with an idea, water hang up on a table without a cup, that we spent a completely meeting on, before we realized that it was not possible to do it, which left wing(p) us with two meetings to decide what we were going to do.I was then uneffective to make the two next meetings, and this caused major training problems, which were reflected during our presentation, added to the fact that I did not talk enough with my team members about what we were going to do, which left our whole group pretty much clueless on our effective presentation. Added to this, we all had different ideas about what we wanted to do with the paper helicopter, what size should it be, how we were going to present it, which led to arguments on the day of the presentation.I am u sually stubborn, and it is hard to make me change my mind when I am set in a direction, moreover we finally managed to come to a compromise which satisfied e trulyone. From this, I learned that my idea is not unavoidably the only working final result, and that there isnt always one solution to a problem, although better planning and better communication could have avoided such problem on the actual presentation day. Regarding the actual presentation, it was obvious that our planning was not very good.Some material was missing, and we had to run around stomach minute to gather what was left. My teammates were stressing out because they werent ready at all, but being used to doing things last minute, I think that managed pretty considerably to take charge of the group project to get what was needed and to look at the actual presentation, which surprised me. I am not a very good public speakers, in fact I dont like standing in front of a class and talking, but I found that duri ng this project, not only was I not hangdog of going up, but I actually enjoyed it.I learned that when I put as much effort as I stick out into something, especially something that I like, my fear of public speaking actually goes by and all the hard work that we put into this project, even last minute, comes out and makes something that arsehole be regarded as good. We did have trouble managing the presentation though, as soon as the class started making their own paper helicopters, it was authentically hard to get them focused again. Our whole team unders to a faultd that, and quite we instinctively broke up into small groups to try and help everyone progress to the final design.To me, my overall opinion of our presentation is that although we lacked preparation, we ended up doing something good. What I learned from this experience is that I am not limited to what I have done in the past. Taking over the presentation was something that very surprised me, and although I know that I talked a bit too much, I am glad that it happened that way, as it showed me that public speaking can actually be one strength instead of my weakness.