Reflections on EDW

Reflections on EDW:

In EDW, everyone is pursuing their own interests, and so I think that's better.

Yeah, so one thing I noticed that I think was really different from what I usually see in school, is how everyone was really you could tell that everyone was excited to be there, like the students, the mentors, and if you had any questions, or if you just wanted to talk about something, like everyone there would talk to you, and you can tell them they genuinely were really excited and just wanted to share everything that they did in EDW.

I really, like felt supported here, which is like, I do robotics, and I do like, a lot of engineering classes, but like this gave me, like a different experience, because every single one of my ideas, even like the silly ones, were not only listened to, but supported, and like other people added on to them, and it's just something I really appreciated.

None of them to say that for projecting something, for developing something, you don't need to know what you're doing. You just learn by doing literally, you don't need to, I don't know my personal experience. I've done something that deals really, really with coding. I've never coded before. Is it true that Rohan did it okay, but I've also done the part with the Pac Man, which is more simple, but it was cool at the same time, because I learned how to code with  TinkerCad And it's something that, in my case, it's coding. But another case can be some physics law, some something else. And another important thing is that when you are school, if you don't know something and there's someone that knows more than you, you usually feel like less not less important, but you feel the other one superior. Here is not like that. Like, if someone else know more about you, he is interested in tell you, in telling you, what is that subject? What are you talking about? And you don't feel like less that's important. You're just at the same level. And this is quite cool. 

I literally couldn't have said about it. Thank you, Francesca, I do think that one of the projects is that I felt like we were all worried about like working in the same team, because when I was doing different projects, I always felt like I was just working with my restricted team of five, six people. But here I felt like working with other like 30 people. I think that everyone was ready to help anyone, everybody else. And I did not feel like there became a difference between people. I felt like everyone was ready to love, everyone was going to learn and everyone was going to accept. And I feel that here, we all feel like a big almost like a big family that wants to do something. And I think in some way, we are way more united than our project that we do in Italy or in our countries. And I think that's the most beautiful part, like really the human part is what I like to talk about this project. I have time for one more. Guys, yeah, I know I'm not a student here, but I'm a mentor. But I feel like I have to say is that these students, I want to emphasize that these, like, half of these students, they would come up and like us and just ask us, because they have nothing, like, maybe no prior experience, or, like, little experience in any kind of project that they're working for. And these are same students. They're like, two or three days that instead of asking me how I can do, like, can I just go do this, they'll go into the game. They're actively working on their next like, their next part. They're planning everything. 

And these like, the smiles on their faces, like, it goes from like, I don't know what I'm doing, to Oh, my God, this is actually working. Was incredible. I mean, like, just a shout out, like people like Francesca. I mean, I know you didn't do Python before this, and you did like, all this game stuff that I literally learned last semester of my classes. I mean, Francesco, who had little interest in her like knowledge and coding before, to actually investing himself into his own personal project, to even my own team who had zero working experience, to going into the cage and drilling through straight aluminum. It's like working with metals, and it's completely different experience of like just learning from like YouTube to actually building these things in your own hand and your own creativity .

Ed Moriarty:

I really kind of sat back this year a lot, here was an opportunity for them to have their imagination matter like you can tell this was not stuff, that Imagination is an important tool going forward. You have to imagine, and here it's built into it that imagination is the beginning. It's used throughout the process here in our schools. It is not the case. It's more about teaching stuff that we already know. So to me, just wonderful to see a celebration of imagination applied using all the tools of those things.