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Q- What is a field/hobby/something you have a passion for (surfing, sailing, robotics, painting, etc.)?
Yoga, Art, and Traveling

Q- What person or organization in that field has used blogging to promote their brand?
Well the Yoga studio I go to has an online blog to talk about different events that are happening throughout the month or a new yoga position for the month. It is pretty interesting.

Q- What is a field you might see yourself blogging about?
I might see myself blogging in the music/music festival field. I'm not an expert, but I would enjoy discussing differernt bands and types of music with other people.

Survival at Sea

• Intro: A brief summary of the activity.
• Rank a list of 25 salvaged items if you were hypothetically lost at sea. Then compare your rankings with your group rankings and make a new ranking list. Afterwards, we saw what the U.S. Coast Guard thought was the correct rankings for these 25 salvaged items. It was interesting to see what they thought was the most important items.
• Personal Prioritization: List your prioritization of the items. Share your reasoning on your top 2 picks and your bottom choice. Were there any items you had a hard time choosing a ranking for?
• When I was prioritizing my items I was thinking about food, clothing, and shelter and then being rescued. My top two picks were a 25 liter container of water and 20 square feet of Opaque plastic sheeting. My bottom choice was one bottle of 160 per cent proof rum and then 2 boxes of chocolate bars becauuse I didn't think they were that necessary since there was army rations. I had a hard time choosing rankings for the things I didn't know like the sextant and a shaving mirror.
• Team Prioritization: What priority did your team agree on? Talk about an item the group ranked similarly to you. What was something the group ranked far differently than you? What was something you and the group ranked similarly? How did your group work together?
• The priority our team agreed on was also the water and food. These things ranked similarly to me. The thing that ranked differently was the run and chocolate bars. I forgot that rum could be used as a cleaning supplement. The group and I ranked similarly on the oil, the map of the pacific ocean, and the 15 ft nylon rope. Our team worked together by discussing what we ranked each item and compromised or shared our reasoning. It went very well.
• Expert Prioritization: How did your choices compare to the "official" Coastguard choices? Were there any big surprises between the two? What do you put more weight in, expert opinion or experiential data? Why?
• Our choices were definitly off from the "official" Coastguard choices. There was a surprise in the shaving mirror and because they said that our first priority was to be saved. I put more weight into expert opinion because it is an expert opinion and because they work in the water and understand the dangers of the water.

Tennis Ball Team Building Game

What was the challenge (list criteria and constraints)?

The challenge was to have everyone touch the tennis ball in a circle in the fastest amount of time.

What plan did your team come up with to solve the challenge?Our team came up with the idea to put all our hands really close together and make a sort of downward ladder with our hands. This would meet the criteria of everyone in the group having to touch the tennis ball once.

How did the execution of your plan work out?It worked out pretty well. At first we had an pretty wacky idea, but the idea mentioned above ended up working out really well.

What would you do the same?I would actually do the same plan/idea of having that downward ladder.

What would you do differently?

I don't think I would do anything differently because our plan worked.

Go into some detail as far as how the plan developed on your team. Describe how the group collaborated and highlight any valuable contributions that other team members made. What types of collaboration seemed to work best in this type of setting?
 The plan developed by us just messin around with the ball. The group collaborated by different members  bringing forth their opinions on the ideas we had developed on how to execute them in the actual competition The types of collaboration that seemed to work best in this type of setting was definitly just arbitrary talk, however, once the talk became serious, the organization of the collaboration also got serious and that also seemed to work out best.

Also, did the nature of the game evolve? What criteria or constraints changed and how did you adjust your strategy to deal with them.
The nature of the game evolved as we saw the other groups ideas. Not that we copied them, we just wanted to see our competition.


What constraint or constraints would you add/change to make a new, more fun version of the game?
I would add more complexity to the game, maybe see if we could do it without our hands or something interesting like that.

Did your team win or loose the game?I believe that our team won the game. Hands down.

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