Our assignment is to research revolutionaries that have impacted Austin. This started when my class was asked to help aid the Austin History Center to build a new exhibit. It is called the “Local Legends,” which involves ten of Austin’s revolutionaries in some form of display. The Austin History Center reached out to us, the Crockett High School Entrepreneurship Program, to aid in the selection of these “Austin Revolutionaries” for their exhibit.
Our class was divided into groups (after we had learned what a revolutionary is) to research different aspects that represented Austin. I became leader of the Tech group whose job was the research groups and individuals who impacted Austin’s tech industry. My group started out our research by looking online for groups involved in Austin’s tech industry today. As it turned out there were tons of organizations and companies in the tech industry. We chose about 20 of them and decided that they were all we fit. I helped out by filing about half of the missions in on our google spreadsheet and find a couple numbers and companies like Austin Chambers and Google Fiber.
When we started our first call it was to Girlstart, they help tired to include girls into technology through STEM programs, who answered us with voicemail sadly. Our second call happened to be our best one. I was bored and decided to call Austin Chambers for fun and when they picked up I felt like I had opened a door. I introduced myself and told them why I was calling (to get some revolutionaries) and then asked if they knew anyone who was a revolutionary. They said that they would put me threw to their head researcher of the Research Department. So I waited while she was busy, and my teammates came in from the hall and saw me on the phone. They asked me some quick questions and then I gave the phone to Aaron since he had a voice that could work wonders on people. So he talked for a while with the head researcher and the guy said that we should call a UT professor named David V. Gibson. So after we had did some research of him we called David V. Gibson and he gave us a whole list of revolutionaries in the tech field. We called a couple more people after that, like Bazaar Voice, but most of them ended in failure.
I hope that in the future we have (as a class and group) a good finalized product that will bring more opportunities to Crockett High. I hope that group shall be focus-minded and help the class along with each other to speed towards our end goal.
I know that at the end I have learned many things like how to lend a conversation, lead a team to success, and to take a leap into something unknown to most people and make it into a subject that is almost common knowledge for others (verbally).
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