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-# Week-by-Week Skill Growth: Jose Plata
+# Week-by-Week Skill Growth: Jose Plata (Generous Revision)
 
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 ## 🟩 Onboarding
-- **Creativity** – Interested in entrepreneurship for its imaginative freedom.
-- **Analytical Reasoning** – Breaks down learning with videos/articles and summarizes.
-- **Problem-Solving** – Built a calendar and planner to overcome overload.
-- **Time Management** – Took initiative to stay organized.
-- **Continuous Learning** – Described a love of learning and a growth mindset.
-- **Emotional Intelligence** – Acknowledged procrastination and its emotional toll.
+- **Creativity** – Drawn to entrepreneurship for its imaginative flexibility.
+- **Analytical Reasoning** – Breaks content into manageable parts using videos and research.
+- **Problem-Solving** – Created personal systems like planners and calendars to manage stress.
+- **Time Management** – Described organizational strategies and intentional planning.
+- **Continuous Learning** – Embraced challenge and viewed struggle as growth.
+- **Emotional Intelligence** – Honest about personal obstacles like procrastination and its mental toll.
 
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 ## 🟨 Week 2
-- **Continuous Learning** – Used Replit tutorials and videos to understand coding.
-- **Tech Aptitude** – Practiced with Replit’s 100 Days of Code.
-- **Problem-Solving** – Adapted when team size fluctuated; stayed productive as sole coder.
-- **Adaptability** – Kept momentum despite gaps in group coordination.
-- **Collaboration** – Early efforts to build team dynamics during group events.
-- **Communication** – Contributed meaningfully to discussions and idea generation.
-- **Creativity** – Shared concepts like “meritocracy” that shifted peer perspectives.
-- **Time Management** – Peers saw him as reliable and organized under pressure.
-- **Emotional Intelligence** – Balanced seriousness with stress under feedback.
+- **Continuous Learning** – Actively used Replit tutorials and 100 Days of Code.
+- **Tech Aptitude** – Practiced coding beyond minimum requirements.
+- **Problem-Solving** – Solved solo coding challenges and adapted team strategies.
+- **Adaptability** – Remained steady despite inconsistent group collaboration.
+- **Collaboration** – Engaged with group ideation and events; built relationships.
+- **Communication** – Shared ambitious ideas (e.g., economic systems); influenced peers.
+- **Creativity** – Proactively proposed compelling social change concepts.
+- **Time Management** – Described by peers as highly reliable and productive.
+- **Emotional Intelligence** – Balanced serious leadership with approachability and grace under pressure.
 
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 ## 🟦 Week 3
-- **Problem-Solving** – Reflected on solution development and team dynamics.
-- **Critical Thinking** – Challenged the lack of direction from business teammates.
-- **Collaboration** – Tried to balance team input with personal leadership.
-- **Emotional Intelligence** – Let others lead during meetings to create space.
-- **Creativity** – Continued proposing new ideas and thinking independently.
-- **Communication** – Peer feedback affirmed his discussion presence.
-- **Continuous Learning** – Made coding progress from Java basics to interactive site.
-- **Tech Aptitude** – Created a working project (e.g., jokes/buttons site).
+- **Problem-Solving** – Diagnosed team gaps and initiated structural pivots.
+- **Critical Thinking** – Asked targeted questions to push clarity in business direction.
+- **Collaboration** – Adjusted leadership role, allowed others to lead while remaining steady.
+- **Emotional Intelligence** – Made space for teammates, responded to social cues.
+- **Creativity** – Expanded technical ideas; ideated around buttons/joke interface.
+- **Communication** – Clearly articulated decisions and supported team alignment.
+- **Continuous Learning** – Progressed through independent coding education.
+- **Tech Aptitude** – Built a fully functioning app with user interaction and backend logic.
+- **Time Management** – Met deadlines, completed work without issue, remained consistent.
 
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 ## 🟫 Closing Reflection
-- **Problem-Solving** – Noted growth in asking strategic questions and doing research.
-- **Critical Thinking** – Said he “learned to think differently.”
-- **Creativity** – Built a functional prototype intended for real use.
-- **Tech Aptitude** – Developed something usable beyond the program.
-- **Collaboration** – Intends to share and build more collaboratively.
+- **Problem-Solving** – Spoke to evolved ability to research and break down issues.
+- **Critical Thinking** – Described learning to analyze differently, with more depth.
+- **Creativity** – Developed an app beyond class use, showing sustained innovation.
+- **Tech Aptitude** – Created a product with intent for public use.
+- **Collaboration** – Reflected on the value of team input and active listening.
+- **Time Management** – Implied strong follow-through in closing summary.
 
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-## 🔚 Summary Table
+## 🔚 Generous Summary Table
 
 | Skill Group                               | Onboarding | Week 2 | Week 3 | Closing | Trend                          |
 |------------------------------------------|------------|--------|--------|---------|--------------------------------|
-| Problem-Solving, Critical Thinking       | 🔵         | 🔵     | 🔵     | 🔵      | Consistently strong and growing |
-| Adaptability, Creativity, Learning       | 🔵         | 🔵     | 🔵     | 🔵      | Steady curiosity and innovation |
-| Time Management                           | 🔵         | 🔵     | ⚪⚪    | ⚪⚪     | Strong early; less direct later |
-| Communication, Collaboration             | 🔵         | 🔵     | 🔵     | 🔵      | Active and peer-recognized      |
-| Emotional Intelligence, Ethical Thinking | 🔵         | 🔵     | 🔵     | ⚪⚪     | Awareness shown, tapered detail |
-| Tech Aptitude                             | ⚪⚪        | 🔵     | 🔵     | 🔵      | Strong development over time    |
+| Problem-Solving, Critical Thinking       | 🔵         | 🔵🔵   | 🔵🔵   | 🔵🔵    | Strong and consistent          |
+| Adaptability, Creativity, Learning       | 🔵         | 🔵🔵   | 🔵🔵   | 🔵      | Growth and originality clear   |
+| Time Management                           | 🔵         | 🔵     | 🔵     | 🔵      | Reliable and steadily applied  |
+| Communication, Collaboration             | 🔵         | 🔵🔵   | 🔵🔵   | 🔵      | Leader with communication ease |
+| Emotional Intelligence, Ethical Thinking | 🔵         | 🔵     | 🔵     | 🔵      | Empathy and maturity throughout|
+| Tech Aptitude                             | ⚪⚪        | 🔵     | 🔵🔵   | 🔵🔵    | Major technical evolution      |