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3️⃣ Things we picked up from this Version

1. Community building activities are essential, especially when working with a large group of people, even more so when working together remotely!
2. Student self-revisions are incredibly important.
3. Lesson recaps significantly improve the understanding of a topic.

👩‍💻 Recruitment

Break, what break? Despite the students being let off for a month-long holiday, the project team busied themselves with recruitment, determined to assemble a team sizable than before. So, interview after interview and a slight rebranding later, a group of 61 volunteers were put together! The Project Team became the Project Management Team; Resource Coordinators and Community Engagement Coordinators were introduced to ease the workload of the Project Management Team and the tutors.

Onboarding sessions for the different roles were scattered between the 7th and 14th of July 2021. Once onboard the E2E train, the team settled to work, preparing for the 26th of July - the second first day of school!

🧑‍🏫 The Teaching Season

In this Version, the tutors didn't solely focus on teaching a new syllabus; they also recapped the lessons in Version 1. As students ourselves, we understood all too well the importance of learning and study methods like spaced repetition. So, the tutors did go back to revise past lessons from time to time. Once the students mastered the basics, the tutors introduced deeper and more complicated theories to them.

Throughout the Version, some of the tutors struggled with the short attention span of students and maintaining students' attention on the subject. One of the ways that kept the students engaged was to constantly get them to answer a question or prompt them to repeat an important fact.

💪 Community Building

With a team of 61 volunteers, it was imperative that we organise periodic icebreaking and bonding sessions. After all, we're all working together, but in different departments, so how often would we talk to volunteers of other departments?

The title of the session this time was "E2E Family Gathering". We started the night with "Scavenger Hunt", where everyone took turns to secure an object that fits a bizarre category, including categories like "something that sticky", "something that stinks".

Next, the game "Turtle Soup" was hosted, an English spin-off of a Chinese game with a similar name where a group of players had to guess the plot's outcome by only asking Yes/No questions. That was truly a brain teaser and the scenarios baffled some of us.