STEM Symposium Reflection

     Our trip to Queens College, the STEM Leadership Symposium event, was a great experience that taught me great things. At the beginning of the presentation, we learned and discussed about leadership. My definition of a great leader, is someone who knows their strengths and weaknesses, using their strengths to teach others and knowing how to improve their weaknesses. In leadership communication is very important because everyone must state their thoughts in order to accomplish a mission in a satisfying way. My favorite part of this trip was when the four individuals spoke to us about STEM/ coding. This was my favorite part of the symposium because they told us not to worry or be scared of what's to come. Everyone has to go through obstacles in order to accomplish and learn new things. There always comes a point in our lives in which we have to try very hard and work nonstop to learn something new, and all that effort comes to us becoming an expert at something. Additionally, we have to be confident and not be scared of taking risks. Taking risks means to try hard no matter what the outcome turns out to be because at the end you know you did something right and you followed your instinct. In additions, to this I liked how they told us no matter what carter we want to pursue STEM still comes in handy because as the 21st, technology plays a huge role in society. In any career, there's always a way you can connect technology to it. However, the part I didn't like in the symposium was that in the panel ( where the 4 individuals spoke) they mostly talked about coding. I wished they could have talked a bit more about other things instead of just sticking to one topic which was coding. Overall, I hope to attend other symposiums such as this one to learn much more things to broaden my knowledge.