1, 2 and it’s 3 Months at TIIDELab
Hello there,
I am back to give you the gist of how my third month at TIIDELab went as usual, if you’ve missed the first and second month episodes here are the links.
so let’s go,
Little wins here and there is what makes you… Kadir Salami (CEO TIIDELab)
If you’ve read through my previous episodes about my experience at TIIDELab you will realize that TIIDELab is intentional about the growth and success of every of their fellows, which has shaped me personally into a better version of my self as a problem solver in the technology field.
3rd month into TIIDELab has really been a golden month for my team and I, and for me personally.
We were told by Pishikeni Tukura to start applying for jobs and hackathon events as he believed we’re getting fit for it. so I took the first step.
I started applying for hackathon events like Hacktoberfest which I was able to complete the tasks and was among the participants who won an Hacktoberfest Official T-Shirt, I also applied for the 2020 Africode Mentorship program, which I got selected and participated in the ICE BREAKER Challenge which I won the prize of $50 gift-card.
How I became the 12th Head Of House
HOH and Deputy-HOH as we call the title for short are emerging winners from the weekly HOH challenges who will serve as the captains for the fellows for the next 8 days, they see to the coordination and affairs of the fellows, they are the intermediary between the TIIDELab management and the fellows during their 8 days tenure.
The saddening incident about the unlawful killing of the Nigerian youths in *Nigeria* that brought about the #endsars protest, didn’t allow the 11th week meet up to hold as there was a very high tension all over the states, and for our safety and mental health the management also gave us a 5 days break from all activities, which really means a lot to all the Fellows.
But it is TIIDELab custom is to always provide a new HEAD OF HOUSE from the winner of the weekly challenge which is always a survival of the fittest, everyone was looking forward to know who the new HOH will be and how it will emerge, will the management select randomly among the fellows or the current HOH and Deputy-HOH automatically runs a second tenure, little did we never know the management has a different style in mind.
I got a message to report to the diary zoom meeting, which I was asked to nominate a fellow with reasons for my nominations, that was when I realized the next HOH is going to emerge by NOMINATION.
NOMINATION?…… I don’t even have a chance at that, lolxxx. Because we have politics and extra-extroverted people in the house who surely have better chances at winning when it comes to NOMINATION.
Fast forward to Monday class to start a new topic in JavaScript (Promise and async/await), I was announced as the HOH having secured the highest number of nominations for the office of the Head of House, while Maureen got the Second highest Vote from Lagos.
I was so shocked that I had to pause and ask myself, how come? lolxx. But I saw it as another opportunity to serve the fellows in another area as I was already a Team lead for my group, my team mates, especially Opaluwa Aisha would never let me be the HOH as her believe was that it will affect my duty and performance as the Team Lead.
Now the big question is WHAT AM I BRINGING TO THE TABLE?
Honestly I wasn’t prepared to become the head of house, but as the table had turned to me, I was left to either leave a new story or follow the normal scripts.
I and my deputy Maureen Anyanwu had a meeting with aderoju shamsudeen (TIIDELab coordinator) about our plans as the First newly Elected Representatives of the Fellows, we promised to do our best and delivered tangibly.
And him posting about the meeting on twitter was really overwhelming, lots of questions was just pumping up within me and it feels as if I was just hearing the word remarkable for the first time, how is it done.
Luckily for me Maureen Anyanwu was my first TIIDELab friend as we got the registration link to TIIDELab from the same Whatsapp group which we did a follow up till we got admitted into TIIDELab , and now serving about 28 people side by side.
Maureen Anyanwu and I had about 30 minutes discussion on zoom about what we can do remarkably during our tenure as the HOH and Deputy-HOH, after the meeting we agreed on some that are achievable and will help increase the energy in the house.
WE SENT EVERY FELLOWS A REMINDER MESSAGE
We reached out to fellows who were absent in any of the sessions and also send them a direct message to remind them about the time and also attached the link to the session for easier access.
WE CHANGE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OKS
OKS is an acronym from Online Knowledge Sharing, which is held every Tuesdays to help remind and freshen up our knowledge on the last 8 days classes, which also involves questioning the fellows randomly.
But instead of the normal OKS random questioning we decided to make it a competition among the 5 teams, each with 2 representatives, which at the end TEAM 2 came second and each of their team members got a prize.
Thanks to Ayoola Toluwanimi for excellently summarizing the topics we’ve learnt in the past 8 days, Chioma Okeke for preparing solid 20 JavaScript questions from our previous classes, which means 4 questions for each team, Ariyibi Baseet Oluwadamilare and Roninn for been a really cool moderators.
WE ORGANIZED AN ONLINE HANGOUT
Every activities we hold on zoom is always based on coding, so we decide to change the music by organizing an online hangout where everyone will get to know each other aside coding and to help relax their minds off coding bugs.
Asking random fellows questions about their team mates
Comedy Skit Session
Karaoke Session
Recharge Card Splash
More comedy
Football fans
MY TEAM WON THE PROJECT PITCHING COMPETITION
During the weekly meet up, the 5 teams were given 1 hour to come up with a pitching deck presentation with a power point slide for their projects, and we were also informed that an external judge will be joining the panel. We thought it was a joke, first 30 minutes we were still battling with the network as we’re trying to communicate with Adeyemo Peter who was the only one who came with his laptop and was in Lagos.
We came up with our project Problem statements, Existing solutions, Our intervention, Our competitors, why US, our uniqueness and our target market.
At the end of the presentation our team was declared the winner with a prize of ten thousand naira (#10, 000), and also to produce the next head of house, which we nominated Ayoola Toluwanimi to be our representative for our Team.
Immediately after that I and my Deputy Maureen Anyanwu was specially called out and was recognized for making our tenure a remarkable one as expected and we were award a prize of five thousand naira each.
I achieved all this because TIIDELab provided the environment, all thanks to all TIIDELab Management for the wonderful opportunity and for also believing in us as a fellow.
I know the third month is so lengthy, I had to summarize and skip some events.
Thank you so much for making it down here.
Hope to see you in the next episode.
Bye! bye!!!
