Example Reflection - Mind Mapping 

 Challenge : 

 I ’m a member of a team working within a scientific organization and we have been assigned to establish   a sustainable energy department and state its objectives and initiatives that we will work on for a period   of one year . The main challenge that we faced was how to structure our department in terms of its   objectives , and what these objectives shall be specially we were n’t clear yet about the scopes that we   will focus on because of the vastness of the sustainability definition . Moreover , these objectives should   add value to both scales , organizational and the country vision toward sustainability . Our team is   consisting of ten members under a bigger organization which consist of different departments such as   purchase department , exterior relation department , finance department and services department . All   these departments will have a contribution toward our team to achieve the department goals . 

 Selection : 

 My team and I started this mission by arranging several workshops to go through different design   thinking tools . After analyzing several options , we found out that mind mapping could be the best   option for us so we decided to use it as our designing tool for our challenge . Despite of the other tools ,   mind mapping is a useful tool for the case where you have a lot of things to demonstrate and you want   to extract your goals from it by focusing directly to the required things to achieve our goals in most   efficient , simplest , and practical ways . 

 Application : 

 We started our mind mapping by four sessions divided on a week time , stating all scopes related to   sustainability that each member might think of and stick it to our mapping board . After that we chose   the most relevant ones and focused it to five main scopes including green energy , energy saving   strategies and tools , recycling processes , Co2 emissions , sustainability policies & public initiatives . After   we stated all related topics , we planned 3 days per week workshops for a three weeks ’ time - period . The   aim of these workshops was to connect which goes to which in terms of wither this work will be done   within the organizational scale , the country vision scale or both . To connect our map , we drew lines   using markers and strings making it easy to follow in different stages . Now for this stage we were having   all our objectives on our map , and the next phase was to break down each objective to its stages and   what will be the expectations after the implementation . Finally , we ended our mind mapping sessions by   looking at where each member of our team has an interest and in what scope of work each member can   do the best . Thus , he / she can serve the best and has their input to the maximum . 

 Insight : 

 The outcome of the mind mapping tool was having five teams , where each team consist of two   members working on one of the five scopes mentioned above . By applying the mind mapping tool , we   created our map that we can follow to structure and achieve our objectives . Moreover , it helped us to   design the department structure with respect to the scopes and its tasks through the workshops that we   carried . We considered a path for each scope parallel to what we expected to achieve in it . We also   stated what are the sub projects or tasks that can be considered under each scope to serve its outcome .   It was important to mention it clearly wither the scope will has the impact on the organizational level , or   community and country level . 

 At this stage , our team become more familiar with the work that should be carried this year and the   objectives are clearer to them . However , at the earlier stages , the terms energy , and sustainability were   very wide titles and it were n’t clear where to start as they consist of many variables and sections that   needed to be covered . Using the mind mapping tool helped us well to clarify the uncertainty that might   occur through this work and to narrow our focus toward the topics that we thought they are much   interested and more relevant . The end year results of applying this tool were great as we managed to   achieve two tasks in each scope where one task was targeting the organization itself and the other   supporting the country vision . 

 Approach : 

 The work done for the first six weeks started with illustrating different design thinking tools and ended   by applying the mind mapping as our design thinking tool . Using this tool presented a great impact in   the work that the team carried within the year and resulted in achieving more than what expected for a   short time period .   My team and I will strongly stick to use this tool for our future work as we found out   that it suits our type of work which includes a lot of information , charts , graphs and tables that always   need to be linked towards having the promised outcomes . We agreed to follow the mind mapping we   already used for our future tasks and objectives and it always must demonstrate the insight within the   work , the progress done , and focus more toward the impact that we are expecting . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
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: Example Reflection - Mind Mapping 

 Challenge : 

 I ’m a member of a team working within a scientific organization and we have been assigned to establish   a sustainable energy department and state its objectives and initiatives that we will work on for a period   of one year . The main challenge that we faced was how to structure our department in terms of its   objectives , and what these objectives shall be specially we were n’t clear yet about the scopes that we   will focus on because of the vastness of the sustainability definition . Moreover , these objectives should   add value to both scales , organizational and the country vision toward sustainability . Our team is   consisting of ten members under a bigger organization which consist of different departments such as   purchase department , exterior relation department , finance department and services department . All   these departments will have a contribution toward our team to achieve the department goals . 

 Selection : 

 My team and I started this mission by arranging several workshops to go through different design   thinking tools . After analyzing several options , we found out that mind mapping could be the best   option for us so we decided to use it as our designing tool for our challenge . Despite of the other tools ,   mind mapping is a useful tool for the case where you have a lot of things to demonstrate and you want   to extract your goals from it by focusing directly to the required things to achieve our goals in most   efficient , simplest , and practical ways . 

 Application : 

 We started our mind mapping by four sessions divided on a week time , stating all scopes related to   sustainability that each member might think of and stick it to our mapping board . After that we chose   the most relevant ones and focused it to five main scopes including green energy , energy saving   strategies and tools , recycling processes , Co2 emissions , sustainability policies & public initiatives . After   we stated all related topics , we planned 3 days per week workshops for a three weeks ’ time - period . The   aim of these workshops was to connect which goes to which in terms of wither this work will be done   within the organizational scale , the country vision scale or both . To connect our map , we drew lines   using markers and strings making it easy to follow in different stages . Now for this stage we were having   all our objectives on our map , and the next phase was to break down each objective to its stages and   what will be the expectations after the implementation . Finally , we ended our mind mapping sessions by   looking at where each member of our team has an interest and in what scope of work each member can   do the best . Thus , he / she can serve the best and has their input to the maximum . 

 Insight : 

 The outcome of the mind mapping tool was having five teams , where each team consist of two   members working on one of the five scopes mentioned above . By applying the mind mapping tool , we   created our map that we can follow to structure and achieve our objectives . Moreover , it helped us to   design the department structure with respect to the scopes and its tasks through the workshops that we   carried . We considered a path for each scope parallel to what we expected to achieve in it . We also   stated what are the sub projects or tasks that can be considered under each scope to serve its outcome .   It was important to mention it clearly wither the scope will has the impact on the organizational level , or   community and country level . 

 At this stage , our team become more familiar with the work that should be carried this year and the   objectives are clearer to them . However , at the earlier stages , the terms energy , and sustainability were   very wide titles and it were n’t clear where to start as they consist of many variables and sections that   needed to be covered . Using the mind mapping tool helped us well to clarify the uncertainty that might   occur through this work and to narrow our focus toward the topics that we thought they are much   interested and more relevant . The end year results of applying this tool were great as we managed to   achieve two tasks in each scope where one task was targeting the organization itself and the other   supporting the country vision . 

 Approach : 

 The work done for the first six weeks started with illustrating different design thinking tools and ended   by applying the mind mapping as our design thinking tool . Using this tool presented a great impact in   the work that the team carried within the year and resulted in achieving more than what expected for a   short time period .   My team and I will strongly stick to use this tool for our future work as we found out   that it suits our type of work which includes a lot of information , charts , graphs and tables that always   need to be linked towards having the promised outcomes . We agreed to follow the mind mapping we   already used for our future tasks and objectives and it always must demonstrate the insight within the   work , the progress done , and focus more toward the impact that we are expecting .
### Output: 