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#Collaboration

Introduction

The Seniors is a student organisation that serves community integration and college construction, and is composed of a group of learners who highly represent the objectives and culture of Moonshot Academy. This is a project I have been working on since Last April. At first, it was just a club organisation initiated by PengPeng. However, after one year’s efforts and development, we have welcomed the members of the second session.

After Orientation Week 2019, The Seniors has completed its mission and is in hibernation stage. Last semester, Susan revived her vision of continuing The Seniors and adding a working scenario that would make it entirely a service organisation highly relevant to MSA community. I thought it was a good opportunity to pass on this work as a member of The Seniors 2019, so I participated in the first few meetings. At the meeting, we determined the mission and vision, work content, team structure, etc., and discussed the selection process and the division of labor of the members of The Seniors 2019.

In the selection stage, we were divided into three groups to interview and investigate the learner activity planning work. In the interview, we first developed the process and the related Rubric. As one of the interviewers, I and my partners in the same group were divided into three roles: main questioner, supplementary questioner and recorder, and took turns. In the later Welcome Package project, as the person in charge of the visual part, I grasped the overall design and visual presentation, and decided the election of the leader with Susan.

Self-reflection

The change of my identity in this semester made me become “a senior of The Seniors”, which forced me to change from a role of doing everything personally and entrusted more specific work to The Seniors 2020, while I mainly offered feedback and constructive suggestions. This change was less like the team leader role I had previously played and more like “consulting.”

The biggest impact of my new position was that at the beginning, I always tried to help The Seniors 2020 in the project because their output was not satisfactory. But gradually, I realised that The Seniors 2020 needed to grow up slowly, just like I didn’t learn these skills in The 10th grade. I should give them more patience and tolerance, let them try and make mistakes as much as possible while ensuring the quality of the project, and then make changes. I’ve done a good job of that now.

The Seniors now has a tight division of labor and everyone’s responsibility, and it has become more and more consistent with our original vision of “a student organisation that serves community integration and college construction, consisting of a group of learners highly representative of MSA training objectives and culture”. I have been in the recently retired as formal adviser (will continue to help The Seniors 2020), I hope it will getting better and better.