full_class_summary.md

🗓️ Week-by-Week Class Skill Growth Summary

🟩 Onboarding

• Confidence & Curiosity: Many students expressed excitement about joining the program, with strong mentions of public speaking goals and eagerness to build something meaningful.
• Reflection Skills: Several students shared personal motivations and growth areas, suggesting early signs of emotional intelligence.
• Collaboration Readiness: Responses showed an openness to teamwork, although few had clear strategies for managing it.
• Time Management: Students generally described their methods vaguely (e.g., “I try to stay focused”), with stronger examples being rare.

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🟨 Week 2

• Problem-Solving in Action: Students began navigating team dynamics, tech issues, and evolving project ideas. Many documented how they adapted.
• Communication Growth: Clear gains in comfort with presenting and pitching. Students reflected on feedback loops and structuring ideas for clarity.
• Team Dynamics: Collaboration became more tangible—dividing tasks, leading meetings, or stepping in when peers were absent.
• Continuous Learning: Most embraced iteration and learning from mentors or sessions, suggesting growth mindsets.
• Time Management Still Mixed: A few students referenced calendars or delegation, but specifics were still limited.

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🟦 Week 3

• Project Ownership & Initiative: Students took on bigger roles—scheduling interviews, refining decks, assigning roles. This week saw a noticeable spike in tech-related collaboration (e.g., using Google Meet, Canva).
• Creativity & Iteration: More students described pivoting or refining ideas based on feedback, showing maturing creative problem-solving.
• Peer Recognition: Many included praise or feedback from teammates, indicating stronger emotional intelligence and team awareness.
• Time Management Still Emerging: Several showed improvement via structured workflow mentions (e.g., "used Notion" or "checked in daily"), but still less prevalent than other skills.

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🟫 Closing Reflections

• Communication Maturity: Students now reflected confidently on their ability to speak professionally, handle Q&A, and give/receive feedback.
• Personal Growth: A majority cited growth in self-awareness, resilience, and group work confidence.
• Creativity & Impact: Reflections tied their business ideas to community change and meaning, showing deeper critical thinking and value alignment.
• Gaps: Some students skipped the reflection or kept it surface-level. Time management and tech use were still under-discussed unless prompted.

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🔚 Observations

• Most Consistent Strengths:
  💬 Communication, 🤝 Collaboration, and 🧠 Adaptability.

• Developing Areas:
  ⏱️ Time Management and 🧭 Emotional Intelligence — present but often vague unless directly tied to peer feedback.

• Program Impact:
  Across weeks, student reflections matured noticeably in tone, clarity, and depth — especially around problem-solving and personal confidence.

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🧩 Cohort-Wide Gaps & Opportunities

🕒 1. Time Management

• Rarely explained in depth. Students often skipped detailing their systems, even when clearly managing tasks.
• Most references were vague or indirect (“I stay on task” vs. “I use Trello to assign deadlines”).

💡 Prompt Addition: “What systems or tools did you use to manage your time?”

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🧠 2. Emotional Intelligence & Ethical Reasoning

• More implied than directly stated.
• Few tied their projects to fairness, empathy, or ethical impact—suggesting a missed opportunity for reflection.

💡 Prompt Addition: “How did you consider others’ perspectives or values while building your project?”

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💻 3. Tech Aptitude (Underreported)

• Many used tools like Canva, ChatGPT, Google Meet, Slides, or Miro—but few analyzed their growth in this area.

💡 Prompt Addition: “What tech tools did you learn or improve with during this project, and how did they help?”