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+# Week-by-Week Skill Growth: Jose Plata
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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+## 🔚 Summary Table
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+| 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    |