Dear Corrector , 

 Thank you for taking the time to look through my text . I hope you can find some value in it . 

 Regards , 

 Al 

 My First Mind - Mapping Session 

 Challenge 

 A small group of students and I are in the early stages of founding a new student association from the ground up . We noticed that our campus lacks an association that encourages students to take part in cultural activities and that connects art lovers . However , in order to jump start our organization we need events that are actually relevant to our target customers . So we decided to use a design thinking tool to develop design criteria and learn from our stakeholders . 

 Selection 

 We selected mind - mapping , a tool that enables the identification of data insights in a collected data set in order to establish criteria for the idea generation phase . ( University of Virginia , 2015 ) . This was perfect for us as it allowed us to source our stakeholders needs and understand their expectations better . This tool also allowed us to counteract the confirmation bias and identify really relevant criteria . 

 Application 

 In order to achieve this we invited a group of student association founders , artists and 

 students to take part in a mind mapping session . There we presented our limited customer insights , ideas and best practices from similar organizations on other campuses . After showing our stakeholder group the relevant information we invited them to a casual talk to understand what insights they could offer . After the talk we opened up the discussion to the group and presented the group with sticky notes and a white board . We encouraged the generation of notes and then collectively reviewed and grouped the ideas . Lastly , we talked about the clusters that formed and wrote insight statements . It worked very well and was applied effectively . 

 Insight 

 Through the session we realized that multiple criteria are very important for our events in order to ensure growth . First of all , we concluded that students would most likely attend if the events were free . Second of all , it became clear that the events have to be flexible in time and fit with the student schedule . This means the events should take place in the afternoon and early evening . Lastly , the events should have a very heavy social component , as with 

 COVID it would bring a lot of value to students if we facilitated networking . The next steps will be organizing test events and then getting feedback on them . The goal is to get multiple hit events that we can repeat monthly . This session really made me realize how powerful design thinking can be . It allowed us to avoid mistakes before we made them . 

 Approach 

 Next time I would use the same tool in a similar case , but I would invite more potential customers from the target group as I learned that they had the most valuable insights . However , in general the tool worked very well and I would not change much . 

 Overall , this tool was incredible for getting new insights . However , for a small operation such as ours it is a lot of work to organize a session . Nevertheless , the ideas and design criteria we generated in the event will be of much use in the future . Furthermore , my team and I are trying to implement the design thinking culture in the association , so that when we leave university the design thinking spirit can live on in the organization . I am very excited to try out the learning launch with our events next . 

 References 

 University of Virginia . ( 2015 , 1 . Januar ) . Mind Mapping Tool [ Video ] . Coursera . 

 https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-innovation/lecture/lsFRa/ 

 mind - mapping - tool 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: Al
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Dear Corrector , 

 Thank you for taking the time to look through my text . I hope you can find some value in it . 

 Regards , 

 Al 

 My First Mind - Mapping Session 

 Challenge 

 A small group of students and I are in the early stages of founding a new student association from the ground up . We noticed that our campus lacks an association that encourages students to take part in cultural activities and that connects art lovers . However , in order to jump start our organization we need events that are actually relevant to our target customers . So we decided to use a design thinking tool to develop design criteria and learn from our stakeholders . 

 Selection 

 We selected mind - mapping , a tool that enables the identification of data insights in a collected data set in order to establish criteria for the idea generation phase . ( University of Virginia , 2015 ) . This was perfect for us as it allowed us to source our stakeholders needs and understand their expectations better . This tool also allowed us to counteract the confirmation bias and identify really relevant criteria . 

 Application 

 In order to achieve this we invited a group of student association founders , artists and 

 students to take part in a mind mapping session . There we presented our limited customer insights , ideas and best practices from similar organizations on other campuses . After showing our stakeholder group the relevant information we invited them to a casual talk to understand what insights they could offer . After the talk we opened up the discussion to the group and presented the group with sticky notes and a white board . We encouraged the generation of notes and then collectively reviewed and grouped the ideas . Lastly , we talked about the clusters that formed and wrote insight statements . It worked very well and was applied effectively . 

 Insight 

 Through the session we realized that multiple criteria are very important for our events in order to ensure growth . First of all , we concluded that students would most likely attend if the events were free . Second of all , it became clear that the events have to be flexible in time and fit with the student schedule . This means the events should take place in the afternoon and early evening . Lastly , the events should have a very heavy social component , as with 

 COVID it would bring a lot of value to students if we facilitated networking . The next steps will be organizing test events and then getting feedback on them . The goal is to get multiple hit events that we can repeat monthly . This session really made me realize how powerful design thinking can be . It allowed us to avoid mistakes before we made them . 

 Approach 

 Next time I would use the same tool in a similar case , but I would invite more potential customers from the target group as I learned that they had the most valuable insights . However , in general the tool worked very well and I would not change much . 

 Overall , this tool was incredible for getting new insights . However , for a small operation such as ours it is a lot of work to organize a session . Nevertheless , the ideas and design criteria we generated in the event will be of much use in the future . Furthermore , my team and I are trying to implement the design thinking culture in the association , so that when we leave university the design thinking spirit can live on in the organization . I am very excited to try out the learning launch with our events next . 

 References 

 University of Virginia . ( 2015 , 1 . Januar ) . Mind Mapping Tool [ Video ] . Coursera . 

 https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-innovation/lecture/lsFRa/ 

 mind - mapping - tool
### Output: 