This week as a mentor, I took charge of presenting the slides and attendance. I spoke to some other Shubble group members that were having technical problems with onboarding and managed to help them out. In addition, I spoke to the Elara group, the only other group in my room, and they seem to be making good progress under an involved project leader. As a student however, I mainly worked extensively to get onboarded despite many problems. Rather than just do the bare minimum setup, I wanted to make sure the testing environment was working well to make sure any commits I put out were up to standards. I also learned about the data pipeline and what my job will be going forward, including training predictive models.

Next week, as a mentor, I plan on continuing to present the slides and take care of attendance. I will also keep checking in on both my group and Elara’s. I have gotten some questions this week that I didn’t know a good answer to, and although I redirected them to someone more knowledgeable, I want to learn more about FAQs for mentors to be put in that spot less often. As a student, I plan to go through the code and understand everything better. There is documentation about how things work, but as this is a fairly new project, not everything is accounted for, so I’m sure I’ll have to experiment a bit to understand everything. In addition, I hope to make some proper contributions to the database or at least make some official notes for plans on how to implement certain desired features.