James Cordero

WEEK 5

The group wanted to acquire more data to make sure that the group's favored product would be sellable in the future. This week, we continued to interview different students from the CEA department.

Again, the questions were:

1. What are your daily struggles as an (Engineering/Architecture) Student?

2. What is the most convenient/cheapest (engineering/architectural) tool you have?

3. What is the most expensive tool you have yet most useful?

4. As an (engineering/architecture) student, which of the following tools do you think is the most useful?

- A Measuring Tool - A Cutting Tool or - A Planner

5. Why do you prefer this tool?

The group experienced a lot of REJECTION since some of the students were shy, busy, or they are just not in the CEA department.

Hypothesis: The group anticipated that we can hit our quota by conducting an interview this week.

Experiment: The group interviewed random students in the CEA department.

Result: Because of the many rejections, we failed to hit our quota for the week.

Action: The group decided to continue the interview by next week.

WEEK 6

The ABCD group once again gathered in the school for the interview continuation. The group comes up with a strategy to make the interview easier and faster. Since this is a group of four members, we decided to split into two groups, Kier and I were partners while the other was Oliver and Alvin. We asked the same questions to some random students from the CEA department.

Hypothesis: The group expected to hit our quota this time.

Experiment: We split into two groups to fasten the interview and also this way we can gather more data.

Result: The group successfully hit the quota.

WEEK 3

This week is about broadening our scope, we decided to interview not just the architecture students but the College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) students.

The questions were:

1. What are your daily struggles as an (Engineering/Architecture) Student?

2. What is the most convenient/cheapest (engineering/architectural) tool you have?

3. What is the most expensive tool you have yet most useful?

4. As an (engineering/architecture) student, which of the following tools do you think is the most useful?

- A Measuring Tool - A Cutting Tool or - A Planner

5. Why do you prefer this tool?

Hypothesis: The group thought that anyone would participate in our interview.

Experiment: The group interviewed twenty-one different CEA students.

Result: Some students REJECTED us to conduct an interview.

Action: The group respectfully accepted the rejection since it is inevitable and besides there are still a lot of students that we can interview.

WEEK 4

The ABCD group conducted a virtual meeting via Google Meet regarding the interview we established in Week 3 and also for us to evaluate the responses of different CEA students. This meeting is our way of checking each other and also for us to distribute tasks for the weekly report.

During the Technopreneurship class, we reported on our group's progress. We created a presentation that includes charts to visualize the majority's response. Both the cutting tool and the planner tied in 15% while the majority responded which is 70% that a measuring tool is the most useful no wonder since measurements are fundamental to the discipline of architecture as well as in engineering.

WEEK 1- FEBRUARY 21,2023 10:00 AM

As soon as the group arrived at school, we directly formulated some questions that we wanted to ask for our interview that might help us come up with and generate a future product for this course.

The questions were:

1. What are your daily struggles as an Architecture Student?

2. What specific things that can solve these struggles?

3. What is the most convenient/cheapest architectural tool you have?

4. What is the most expensive tool you have yet most useful?

We interviewed some random architecture students. We find it easy to find interviewees because there are a lot of them in the CEA building, there may be some students that rejected us and refused to be interviewed because they were shy but there are also a lot of students that are willing to share their insights and participated in our interview.

Hypothesis: The group thought that we would gather different answers and ideas.

Experiment: The group interviewed seven different architecture students.

Result: It turned out that most of their answers have a lot in common.

Action: The group evaluated those answers and focused on the majority's response to coming up with an idea.

WEEK 2- FEBRUARY 28,2023 10:00 PM

The ABCD group decided to have a virtual meeting via Google Meet regarding the interview that we established in Week 1 and also for us to formulate some strategies that will help us in this course and get on track. Later that night we heard the suggestions of our group mates about their proposed product and it turned out amazingly.

Kier suggested that we should produce something that we named TAPE MEASURE, this is a masking tape marked with standard distances in centimeters/inches. This idea was based on our past interview because a lot of our interviewee's responses to the question "What is the most expensive tool you have yet most useful?" was a T-square. For the proposed tape measure, the students can do it themselves (DIY) with a measuring tool, just take the tape and paste it onto something solid. With this product, a student can have a convenient and useful measuring tool at a low cost.

Oliver then suggested that we'll produce a NOTEBOOK that its cover page can turn into/embedded with scaled rulers, triangles, and a protractor. The notebook is also comprised of schedule packs, a traditional way to make the organization of class schedules and upcoming activities so that a student will not be lost on track and do their tasks accordingly. This idea was based on two of our interview questions "What is the most convenient/cheapest architectural tool you have?" because someone answered "a 12-inch ruler", and "What are your daily struggles as an Architecture Student?" to which the majority responded "time management". With this product, a student has already a notebook that will help him/her organize his/her schedules and also has built-in measuring tools that are very useful.

The group was aiming to come up with three products and as the brainstorming goes on, the group decided to consider a cutting material which is a CUTTER with MEASUREMENTS, this is to make cutting easier and more precise.

In ES302 - Technopreneurship, we are tasked to form a diverse team of four. First, we took the Berkeley Innovation Index Text for our work groups to measure our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, as our innovative mindset level. My innovative mindset level is currently 70.58 out of 100.

The second test we took was the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Test which indicates our psychological preference in how people perceive the world and make decisions. I and my group mates shared our results and turned out we were all Diplomats yet surprisingly we differ in personality types. Diplomats are kind-hearted and open to other people and usually prefer working collaboratively rather than competing with their peers.

Alngog, Oliver was a Protagonist (ENFJ-T) who is an inspiring optimist, readily taking action to do what he feels is right. Benedicto, Alvin was an Advocate (INFJ-A) which is quite a visionary, often serving as an inspiring and tireless idealist. Cordero, James (Me) was a Campaigner (ENFP-A) who is an enthusiastic, creative, and sociable free spirit, who can always find a reason to smile. Dacula, Kier was a Mediator (INFP-A) who is a poetic, kind, and altruistic person, always eager to help a good cause.