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For me, striving to be “someone others want to work with” has two sides. It is being an individual that you would want to work with, as well as, one that others would want on a team. Working with others is very important and could be challenging at first, but once you find a good team and quality group members, whose skills compliment each other, working in a team will be more efficient than working alone. To be an excellent team member, you must first become someone that you would want to work with. This involves sharpening skills that you have and learning new skills that you believe will aid you in a team working scenario. To establish what skills are needed, it is important that you put yourself in your teammates’ “shoes” and think from their perspective. On the other hand, you need to be someone that others want on a team. This means that you must be open to opinions from other group members so that the project is a product of everyone’s creations. More importantly, ...

  Throughout my computer science "career" I have done many different projects both in and outside of school. One of my most memorable projects would be one that I did in grade 11 and 12 with a group of friends, outside of school. We programmed a drone and flew it with an RC controller! We made a program that would allow us to fly a drone and also have a heads-up display. The display included a compass, a speedometer, an altitude meter, as well as indicators for x and y direction and orientation. The display also had a camera viewer which showed the stream of a camera placed on the drone. From the start, the most challenging part was planning out the project. We knew this program would have multiple parts, so we planned those out first. Next, we worked on finding a way to smoothly integrate all the components into the final product. Once we began programming, it was important that we communicated often so that we would all follow the same framework for an effortless...