Mind mapping - reflection 

 Challenge      Target youth unemployment in Europe and contribute to the decrease of the 

 unemployment rate . The numbers speak for themselves , in 2019 , 3.3 million 

 European young people were unemployed .     Youth unemployment has irreparable , damaging results on the future of young 

 people . 

 ● Workers who are unemployed when young tend to earn significantly less over 

 their lifetime . 

 ● The young unemployed look at the future less optimistically . 

 ● They also tend to leave the parental home later and start families later . 

 Resources for insights :    https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/nov/11/europe-cant-afford-to-lose-a nother - generation - to - youth - unemployment     Statistics about youth unemployment :    https://ec.europa.eu/     Selection      We ’ ve selected Mind Mapping as a tool in order to help us understand better all the 

 aspects of the challenge . Mind mapping was the most suitable tool to address this 

 challenge and to perfect our concepts . It is an efficient tool that helped us to include 

 and gather all   crucial elements for moving further to the next stages of the project .      Mind mapping it ’s a visualization technique that traces with detail all the concepts 

 related to the central idea . It is an effective visualization tool that helps us transfer all 

 the crucial information from your brains and put it on paper or at least on the screen . 

 It ’s also an effective and efficient way to understand better all the aspects of a 

 project and observe logical sequences . This process consists of accessing creative 

 thoughts by encouraging at the same time all members of the team to contribute 

 with their original thoughts on the spot . 

 Application     We had a brainstorming session with my team using the online mind mapping tool 

 Miro . We started by defining the challenge and all its aspects by putting post - it notes 

 around it . Then , we defined thoroughly our target audience not only their functional 

 attributes but also their thoughts and emotions and also we set a group of trigger 

 questions so we could implement them to gather insights . Afterwards , we identified 

 our key stakeholders and their involvement on the project .     how the design looked like :     We had defined our central idea and we drew it in the middle of the page of our 

 online mind mapping tool . Then , we created branches that were representative of 

 core ideas that derived from our central idea and we connected these branches with 

 secondary branches that were associated with additional , secondary ideas . 

 Insight      Our next step was to invite a group of stakeholders and repeat a similar process . We 

 divided the stakeholders into groups each representing a different area of interest . 

 We gave a tablet to each team so they could complete the mind map after having a 

 brainstorming session in which a member of our team was the coordinator and 

 guided the discussion through trigger questions we had set . At the same time the 

 coordinator noted interesting insights . The discussion would last about half an hour 

 and each group would have to come up with a mind map .      In the next meeting we had representatives from each stakeholders group and we 

 compared the common points of the mind maps that emerged . Then , we combined 

 the insights that came up in the final form of our mind map .      The final step was to create a digitized copy that summarized the shared and new 

 insights of the stakeholders ’ mind maps and our teams first map .      We projected the final copy and discussed again with the stakeholder ’s 

 representatives to see if there were any objections . Following this process , we 

 incorporated stakeholders ’ feedback into our final mind map . 

 Approach :     What I ’ve learned from incorporating this tool in the process of building this project 

 was the importance of structuring and defining all the key elements of a project and 

 taking a close look , examining all the ideas and especially incorporating feedback 

 and insights from stakeholders . It was a great tool for putting together ideas and 

 encouraging the team to produce creative ideas . It was indicative how much the 

 initial idea can be improved by incorporating the critical point of views of 

 stakeholders and potential beneficiaries of the idea .     It 's a particularly easy , fun and engaging tool especially when you are working with 

 young people that are familiar with technological tools and creative activities . I would 

 definitely use it in future projects . In comparison to a standard brainstorming where 

 someone has to keep track of all the ideas and insights and it is possible to miss out 

 on critical information , mind mapping is the most efficient way to have a clear layout 

 of your challenge and highlight all of its aspects . 

 ➔ This was a made - up project on an issue I deeply care about and I tried 

 explaining the process I would follow if I was a leader of a team where we had 

 to come up with the best concepts for this challenge for a potential client . I 

 attempted to follow the pillars of design thinking and implementing with the 

 best way possible the tools that were proposed on the course . 


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: Mind mapping - reflection 

 Challenge      Target youth unemployment in Europe and contribute to the decrease of the 

 unemployment rate . The numbers speak for themselves , in 2019 , 3.3 million 

 European young people were unemployed .     Youth unemployment has irreparable , damaging results on the future of young 

 people . 

 ● Workers who are unemployed when young tend to earn significantly less over 

 their lifetime . 

 ● The young unemployed look at the future less optimistically . 

 ● They also tend to leave the parental home later and start families later . 

 Resources for insights :    https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/nov/11/europe-cant-afford-to-lose-a nother - generation - to - youth - unemployment     Statistics about youth unemployment :    https://ec.europa.eu/     Selection      We ’ ve selected Mind Mapping as a tool in order to help us understand better all the 

 aspects of the challenge . Mind mapping was the most suitable tool to address this 

 challenge and to perfect our concepts . It is an efficient tool that helped us to include 

 and gather all   crucial elements for moving further to the next stages of the project .      Mind mapping it ’s a visualization technique that traces with detail all the concepts 

 related to the central idea . It is an effective visualization tool that helps us transfer all 

 the crucial information from your brains and put it on paper or at least on the screen . 

 It ’s also an effective and efficient way to understand better all the aspects of a 

 project and observe logical sequences . This process consists of accessing creative 

 thoughts by encouraging at the same time all members of the team to contribute 

 with their original thoughts on the spot . 

 Application     We had a brainstorming session with my team using the online mind mapping tool 

 Miro . We started by defining the challenge and all its aspects by putting post - it notes 

 around it . Then , we defined thoroughly our target audience not only their functional 

 attributes but also their thoughts and emotions and also we set a group of trigger 

 questions so we could implement them to gather insights . Afterwards , we identified 

 our key stakeholders and their involvement on the project .     how the design looked like :     We had defined our central idea and we drew it in the middle of the page of our 

 online mind mapping tool . Then , we created branches that were representative of 

 core ideas that derived from our central idea and we connected these branches with 

 secondary branches that were associated with additional , secondary ideas . 

 Insight      Our next step was to invite a group of stakeholders and repeat a similar process . We 

 divided the stakeholders into groups each representing a different area of interest . 

 We gave a tablet to each team so they could complete the mind map after having a 

 brainstorming session in which a member of our team was the coordinator and 

 guided the discussion through trigger questions we had set . At the same time the 

 coordinator noted interesting insights . The discussion would last about half an hour 

 and each group would have to come up with a mind map .      In the next meeting we had representatives from each stakeholders group and we 

 compared the common points of the mind maps that emerged . Then , we combined 

 the insights that came up in the final form of our mind map .      The final step was to create a digitized copy that summarized the shared and new 

 insights of the stakeholders ’ mind maps and our teams first map .      We projected the final copy and discussed again with the stakeholder ’s 

 representatives to see if there were any objections . Following this process , we 

 incorporated stakeholders ’ feedback into our final mind map . 

 Approach :     What I ’ve learned from incorporating this tool in the process of building this project 

 was the importance of structuring and defining all the key elements of a project and 

 taking a close look , examining all the ideas and especially incorporating feedback 

 and insights from stakeholders . It was a great tool for putting together ideas and 

 encouraging the team to produce creative ideas . It was indicative how much the 

 initial idea can be improved by incorporating the critical point of views of 

 stakeholders and potential beneficiaries of the idea .     It 's a particularly easy , fun and engaging tool especially when you are working with 

 young people that are familiar with technological tools and creative activities . I would 

 definitely use it in future projects . In comparison to a standard brainstorming where 

 someone has to keep track of all the ideas and insights and it is possible to miss out 

 on critical information , mind mapping is the most efficient way to have a clear layout 

 of your challenge and highlight all of its aspects . 

 ➔ This was a made - up project on an issue I deeply care about and I tried 

 explaining the process I would follow if I was a leader of a team where we had 

 to come up with the best concepts for this challenge for a potential client . I 

 attempted to follow the pillars of design thinking and implementing with the 

 best way possible the tools that were proposed on the course .
### Output: 