Personally from what I've heard AP is more hands on and is developing a pitch and presenting it out towards a certain group, as of this I'm honestly pretty excited for the expo, I remember last term other students talking about the expo and it seemed quite interesting in my eyes, so I'm pretty static to get that under the way.

Personality:

Typically I have a more calm tolerant personality, due to this I feel like it would be useful when others aren't working with the group or are mucking around, however with this it also limits how I speak around people, as sometimes I can let people go way over my head which can lead to some interesting moments, so if I could improve on this in the next few weeks that would be pretty beneficial.

Challenges:

For challenges I feel like a big thing would be getting out of that comfort zone many people sit in (myself included) and would not try to pitch in as much due to this as they may see their idea's as silly leading to some great ideas being missed, this would probably be one challenge whilst the second in my eyes would be meeting others, this one is more personal as I'm reluctant in meeting others, if I'm forced I'll do my best, yet sometimes if I'm not I would shy away, this is a personal challenge that I would like to solve probably by the end of AP.

Discussion of concepts:

One thing that was said to the entire class that stuck in my brain is to think outside the box, make it fun and unique which I feel like is a good way to engage people rather than the usual, a second concept I would think is good is to sell the idea out, make it better than it sounds, don't overly gloss it yet gloss it enough to make others feel like they must have this product.

Well My communication with my group somewhat remains the same, I actively push everyone in my group to complete their designated roles, yet when they don’t I dont really say anything, more so this is when I take up their role hindering the whole group collaboration part, we collaborated somewhat evenly throughout the 2 terms, nothing really changed, we mainly just stuck to our roles. Creativity was improved by lots of research and time put into the idea, we had to actually put a lot of thought into trying to make a good unique idea so that we could hit that high band of grade. 

Well if in the future I were to start a small business or hop on a show that advertises my product this would help quite a lot as I would already have most of the skills to fully make and present my product whilst selling it to the customer in a convincing way.

I feel the main challenge I faced was people not doing their designated role, I understand they also have other assignments but not working in class or at home then not having anything prepared making another one of us take care of it was really annoying, I feel as if it tested my patience a lot. Generally I would try to talk it out with them to try to get them to do work, yet if they wouldn’t comply I would take the role to try to get it done in whatever time space we have to ensure the group gets a good grade. I don’t think much of this now yet back then I was pretty pissed whenever this happened which wasn’t good but it was natural as it's annoying.

I feel that I learnt how to manage my emotions way more, and work under pressure to allow good efficient work to be completed, which can be pretty helpful later on as not everyone will do what they have to do, leading to stressful moments so, I guess this was a learning experience for me.

I feel like I gained more knowledge on how to deal with people whilst also how to communicate clearly and make things up on the spot to fix a mistake made in front of a crowd, all of these were skills that I had to make and refine over the time of our Action project semester, otherwise I really enjoyed action project as it was fun and educational (in some aspects)