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Conferencia de Skype

Como parte de nuestras prácticas humanitarias, decidimos platicar vía Skype con diferentes equipos de sus proyectos, como ellos iban con sus trabajos, tratando de obtener consejos y también ver si podíamos ayudarlos con algo. Durante esta actividad, nosotros también teníamos como meta hablar sobre nuestro proyecto para checar como las personas de diferentes partes del mundo reaccionaban frente a la idea y que tan grande es el impacto que podría causar fuera de nuestra comunidad y país.

Nuestro primer chat de Skype fue con un equipo de un colegio alemán, Braunschweig; conversamos por casi dos horas, donde discutimos diferentes aspectos, y por supuesto preguntamos varias cosas más de la materia. Platicamos sobre como su equipo fue formado y como este sería su primer año participando en el concurso; como trataron de formar un equipo anteriormente pero no funciono, por lo que tuvo que ser suspendido hasta este año. También nos comentaron su idea de proyecto y que esta seria presentada en Septiembre; y más o menos como está pensado que funcionará.

Pero como parte de nuestra meta principal, les platicamos nuestro proyecto: un bio-insecticida que será producido por una bacteria, pero que fue pensado para también que sea producido por la planta misma, y como el tiempo no nos permitió probar esta idea, pero que tenemos contemplado terminarla en una bacteria para poder ver los resultados o al menos tener un estimado de como el producto serviría en la vida real. Mencionamos que el proyecto estaba basado en un problema local concerniente a los cultivos de papa en los alrededores de monterrey, e intercambiamos opiniones del proyecto.

The Braunschweig team seemed surprised at the idea, and said they liked it a lot. They said also that the basis of the project, since it was considered to help in a local problem, was very good; that it had a good outreach and an actual thought use to it.

The second team was from ????, also Germany. We had the chance to talk only with a girl, called Anja. We first thought we were talking to a high school team, but after mentioning how we were running out of time for the wiki, she seemed confused, for their wikifreeze was not until September. After asking what ages did the team members in general have, we realized we were talking to college students. Now everything made sense.

We did not talk for a long period of time, like the other team, because we were having trouble with the Internet connection. We spent more than half an hour trying to get the signal right, with the microphone and the webcam… and that particular day, the Internet was failing in our school, so were kind of desperate. When we finally settled down, we asked about their experiences, how the team was formed, what their project was about, and if they had had any trouble with anything. It was a particularly nice conversation.

We had the opportunity of asking Anja about something we were having trouble with, related to the wiki. She gave us a really good suggestion that we hadn’t thought about, so we were really lucky to have talked to her.

In general, we learned how important it is to share ideas with others and have them give feed back to you, especially when they have a background on the subject; this way, communication is easier, and the results from having these talks (involving projects and how they can be improved) are given a better view and review. We get new points of view on how it could turn out, or how the project could be seen in different cultures and perspectives form other parts in the world… Which is what part of Human practices is about; having others be involved in your project, giving feedback to each other, and using all the tools we have at our hand to make it possible and in the best way we can. Cooperating to expand, trying to go beyond the barriers that divide us as teams, as countries, and be all one same foundation that is competing to be better year by year.