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# 🗓️ 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?”