In October 2021, I participated the competition named CHINA-THINKS-BIG with six of my classmates. CHINA-THINKS-BIG was the largest and most impactful research-based social entrepreneurship competition held by Harvard organizations in China. It was made up of 3 stages, which were the on-line stage, domestic stage, and Harvard stage. What’s more, during the stage on-line competition stage, we were asked to make a planning survey, an essay, a realization plan, and a presentation video. In addition, everyone played a role in the team, e.g. writer, designer, research fellow, and data analyst.
At the beginning of the competition, there were only 4 team members in our team. Meanwhile, we were looking forward to someone who did well in creativity and researching. Finally, we found a girl called Joyce to be the research fellow . The second decision was who would be the captain. I preferred to be the writer for the essay task rather than the team leader, so I refused to take on this position and highly recommended Elaine. As a writer, I firstly wrote a structural questionnaire to collect data, and it was a challenge for me, as I had never done this before. Nevertheless, when it came to the writing of an essay, Joyce was busy with her other competitions, and our leader, Elaine, wasn’t available with her studies. As a result, we almost got nothing ready before writing it except the questionnaire data. Meanwhile, the other writer who was called Evelynn, and I took the responsibility of completing the essay. The first thing we did was a to-do list for everyone according to their roles, then we used pie charts, histograms and tables to present our questionnaire data. The other thing we did was that we used different websites to search for documents, and we selected helpful resources to add to our essay. Finally, we completed it successfully.
I suppose that I learned to be responsible, and improve my leadership, executive force and communication skills during this experience. Above all, never give up easily as long as you have a reliable partner.