Design Thinking Tool : Story Telling 

 Challenge 

 My name is Alessio Putino and I am the Trainer - Training & Development for a group of   Engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh , India . It is my responsibility to see that all   my Engineering students acquire a set of technical skills which are out of their   defined university curriculum . The main reason for this is because at the end of final   year of student course in Engineering , companies visit the colleges for placements   and recently these companies starting looking for additional technical skills in   students , apart from standard academic skills . Now , the challenge is to motivate   final year students to spend that extra hour of time in college for attending additional   technical training classes , as college time table for them is already hectic with their   regular academics and especially with final year project work . For the students , it is   very demotivating to stay in the college for an extra - hour regularly and then to go   home and practice those extra technical skills . It is even more difficult for those   students who commute college from different towns around , where the travel time   ranges from 40minutes to 90 minutes . The regular college hours are from 9 am to   4 pm and to accommodate this additional training session for one hour , we had to   extend the college timings till 5 pm . As it turned out , the student attendance for these   training classes was lukewarm . So , we had a challenge to ensure healthy student   attendance for these classes and also to motivate them to go back home and spend   required time to practice these skills , which is in addition to their academic   homework . 

 Selection 

 I always use Story Telling to motivate students , to extract best out of them . Students   need inspiration to put those extra hours in their learning and practice . They need   inspiration from the role models . Especially , when students are in the final year and   successful completion of their degree is not the only parameter for them to measure   their success . Students take pride in earning that dream job along with their degree   completion certificate . I tell stories of most successful passed out students from my   college to motivate my students , and share what they have done / how they have   done extraordinarily to achieve , what they have achieved , which is excellent   campus placements . I also create safe environment for students by encouraging   them to open up and share their frank feedback against the context of my story to   ascertain their goals , and also see if they have anyone they know , in their family   and friends , who have achieved their dream job in the face of adversity . 

 Application 

 I wanted to share a story to my students . But I want them to be focused and relaxed   so that I can relate my story and make them feel the connection . So , I had arranged   a Movie to be played in college auditorium and I encouraged all the final year   Engineering students to watch the movie and have fun time with me and share their   feedback . I told them just that . They were not aware that I have a story to share   after the Movie or the whole event was related to their training or campus   placement . I even asked the students to come in their casuals so that they feel at   ease when interacting with me in the auditorium , so that they do not feel anything   formal about the whole event . The movie was scheduled at 10 am . On a Sunday . The   Movie I played was ‘ The Pursuit of Happiness ’ . Once it finished , I started asking   what they have experienced and what were their thoughts about the protagonist in   the story and how he came out of his troublesome life and how he pursued   happiness . Once I felt the students were opening up , I shared the story of a passed   out senior student , Kiran , who comes from a modest background , and whose father   was a farmer . Kiran had to travel 2 hours every day to college . In order to achieve   his goal of joining a Multinational Company - GOOGLE , Kiran had to acquire   technical skills in a particular programming language , which the college was not   offering at that time . Kiran was so determined that he joined a training institute in a   town far from his home . Which means , every day after   coming back from college ,   he again had to travel one more hour to his training institute , where he will spend 2   hours and then come back home . He did this day - in and day - out for one whole year . 

 The result was- he got selected for GOOGLE that year . I found the auditorium fill   with silence , when I finished the story . Then , I asked the students present in the   auditorium to relate their training scenario to that of Kiran . Students now started   expressing how fortunate they were that they do not need to travel any further after   going home , for additional technical training . Infact , they started narrating the   stories they know of such students who took on adversities to achieve their goals 

 Insight 

 I was pleasantly surprised on how the students reacted as they started relating to   their current scenario with other successful stories that they know . They felt   immediately connected and obliged to put that extra hour of time both at college   and at home to land on their dream job . 

 Approach 

 Students really needed a story that they can relate to . They needed that Sunday to   enjoy a movie and perhaps to have complete grip of their scenario . I was confident   that I could make a difference but surprised to see almost all the students staying   back for extra hour of additional technical training class from there on . Yes , I had   few more success stories at the end of that year , when I saw good number of   students getting placed in the companies they dreamed to join . Story telling worked   for me and I tell my students stories regularly . But next time , I may have achievers   in the auditorium after my Movie ! , to tell their story – First hand ! 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: Alessio Putino
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: Design Thinking Tool : Story Telling 

 Challenge 

 My name is Alessio Putino and I am the Trainer - Training & Development for a group of   Engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh , India . It is my responsibility to see that all   my Engineering students acquire a set of technical skills which are out of their   defined university curriculum . The main reason for this is because at the end of final   year of student course in Engineering , companies visit the colleges for placements   and recently these companies starting looking for additional technical skills in   students , apart from standard academic skills . Now , the challenge is to motivate   final year students to spend that extra hour of time in college for attending additional   technical training classes , as college time table for them is already hectic with their   regular academics and especially with final year project work . For the students , it is   very demotivating to stay in the college for an extra - hour regularly and then to go   home and practice those extra technical skills . It is even more difficult for those   students who commute college from different towns around , where the travel time   ranges from 40minutes to 90 minutes . The regular college hours are from 9 am to   4 pm and to accommodate this additional training session for one hour , we had to   extend the college timings till 5 pm . As it turned out , the student attendance for these   training classes was lukewarm . So , we had a challenge to ensure healthy student   attendance for these classes and also to motivate them to go back home and spend   required time to practice these skills , which is in addition to their academic   homework . 

 Selection 

 I always use Story Telling to motivate students , to extract best out of them . Students   need inspiration to put those extra hours in their learning and practice . They need   inspiration from the role models . Especially , when students are in the final year and   successful completion of their degree is not the only parameter for them to measure   their success . Students take pride in earning that dream job along with their degree   completion certificate . I tell stories of most successful passed out students from my   college to motivate my students , and share what they have done / how they have   done extraordinarily to achieve , what they have achieved , which is excellent   campus placements . I also create safe environment for students by encouraging   them to open up and share their frank feedback against the context of my story to   ascertain their goals , and also see if they have anyone they know , in their family   and friends , who have achieved their dream job in the face of adversity . 

 Application 

 I wanted to share a story to my students . But I want them to be focused and relaxed   so that I can relate my story and make them feel the connection . So , I had arranged   a Movie to be played in college auditorium and I encouraged all the final year   Engineering students to watch the movie and have fun time with me and share their   feedback . I told them just that . They were not aware that I have a story to share   after the Movie or the whole event was related to their training or campus   placement . I even asked the students to come in their casuals so that they feel at   ease when interacting with me in the auditorium , so that they do not feel anything   formal about the whole event . The movie was scheduled at 10 am . On a Sunday . The   Movie I played was ‘ The Pursuit of Happiness ’ . Once it finished , I started asking   what they have experienced and what were their thoughts about the protagonist in   the story and how he came out of his troublesome life and how he pursued   happiness . Once I felt the students were opening up , I shared the story of a passed   out senior student , Kiran , who comes from a modest background , and whose father   was a farmer . Kiran had to travel 2 hours every day to college . In order to achieve   his goal of joining a Multinational Company - GOOGLE , Kiran had to acquire   technical skills in a particular programming language , which the college was not   offering at that time . Kiran was so determined that he joined a training institute in a   town far from his home . Which means , every day after   coming back from college ,   he again had to travel one more hour to his training institute , where he will spend 2   hours and then come back home . He did this day - in and day - out for one whole year . 

 The result was- he got selected for GOOGLE that year . I found the auditorium fill   with silence , when I finished the story . Then , I asked the students present in the   auditorium to relate their training scenario to that of Kiran . Students now started   expressing how fortunate they were that they do not need to travel any further after   going home , for additional technical training . Infact , they started narrating the   stories they know of such students who took on adversities to achieve their goals 

 Insight 

 I was pleasantly surprised on how the students reacted as they started relating to   their current scenario with other successful stories that they know . They felt   immediately connected and obliged to put that extra hour of time both at college   and at home to land on their dream job . 

 Approach 

 Students really needed a story that they can relate to . They needed that Sunday to   enjoy a movie and perhaps to have complete grip of their scenario . I was confident   that I could make a difference but surprised to see almost all the students staying   back for extra hour of additional technical training class from there on . Yes , I had   few more success stories at the end of that year , when I saw good number of   students getting placed in the companies they dreamed to join . Story telling worked   for me and I tell my students stories regularly . But next time , I may have achievers   in the auditorium after my Movie ! , to tell their story – First hand !
### Output: 