Week 12: End of Semester A - Final Presentation!

This week marks the final week of the semester. All the hard work, thinking, and effort we invested throughout the past months came together at the closing point of Semester A.

It was an exciting and meaningful moment for us to present our work so far to our lecturers and to the experts who joined us to review our project. After a long process of research, iterations, and decision-making, we were finally able to present our progress and solution.

At this stage, we have a solid idea with three main screens that define our solution. During the presentations, we received highly valuable feedbacks from the experts, which helped us better understand where further clarification and depth are needed.

One of the key points raised was the need to present our service design more clearly: what exactly the student does, how the student interacts with the app, and how the classroom game fits into the overall experience.

Another important topic was the end of the game reflection. The experts suggested thinking about how to create a meaningful reflection moment for the students. One idea that emerged was to display a classroom visualization at the end of the game, showing the connections that were formed between students throughout the activity.

We plan to examine and implement these important insights during Semester B, which will begin this coming March.

In summary, this was a challenging and insightful semester. We revisited the middle-school experience -- this time from the perspective of a homeroom teacher. We were required to identify one core problem out of many problems, and to focus on a single solution among numerous ideas we explored along the way.

We are looking forward to the next semester, during which we will begin building our product and start running validation processes with teachers who will use both the app and the classroom game.