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Monday
This is what I did on Monday.
On monday we met for the first time in the reception area of the Waterford Red Hat Facility and then we went into our office area to setup our internet and account on our Laptops. We were given an office tour, we went all around the office and saw the different workspaces where all the fire exits are and where the canteen/games area is.
we were then given an introduction talk from James and what we were told the bassics and what were going to be learning and doing for the week
After the office tour we went into the canteen and games area and played the switch and pool table. After a while of playing switch and pool we did a workshop with david and were given a topic to make our mr.potato head with to show how the workers do their work with their team even if they aren’t in the same room or on call to comunicate.
At the end of the day we went of for the last hour and played more with the pool table until we had to go home.
Tuesday
This is what I did on Tuesday.
Today we started our day with a thing where we talk about what we did the day before, about what we liked and what we didn’t like and after that we had a small 10 minute break. Right after our break we went and had a mini course on how to code with Pat and learned a few things like how to create files in our folder.
Once we were finished with that we went ahead and started our blog on what we had done on Monday and spent 30 minutes on that so we could have it finished for the day. Once we finished that we went off for our hour long lunch break so me and a few of the lads went down the the nearby deli and got lunch there, we then came back and had a few games of pool and started a tournament that we will be doing for the next few days.
After our lunch break we went back in for a talk with Seán and Jen about what their expierience in college was like, how much time they spent there and what their course was like. After that we had one last break and came back to a talk about what it’s like for women in tech and to see that not many people who are in tech are women.
At the end of the day I spent 30 minutes adding to my blog for the day to talk about what I did for the day.
Wednesday
This is what I did on Wednesday.
We started off our day with our stand up again where we talk about what we did the previous day and what we like and didn’ like or if we had any issue’s. After that we fixed our moniters to make sure we can use them with our laptops and then had a small break.
After our break we went to the Tuskar room and had a talk about technoligy and the cloud with Jmaes and Kevin Quinn who works with Red Hat from home so he was on a Zoom call with us.
At 11.30 we did an engineering task with spaghetti and a marshmallow the task was to get the marshmallow off the table as far as possible with out it falling and without anyone toching it. we were in groups of three and sadly my group lost the challenge both times we did and group 3 won both times.
Then we had an hour and a half of a lunch break since we finished early and we continued on in our pool tournament and played a bit of switch.
After our lunch break we went into the main conference room and did another engineering project where we had to make a roller coaster out of straws and selotape and use a ping pong ball as the cart we made a ramp into a slight loop but it didn’t work properly once it got to the end of the ramp
For last part of the day I spent a bit writing in this blog to talk about my day
Thursday
This is I did on Thursday. We started our morning with the sand up again there was no complaints after our stand up we worked a biton our blog and fixed anything we messed up on Wednesday
We then had a brekfast buffet and had some sausages and some pudding and wheni was finished my breakfast I had a game of pool with Adam
After breakfast and pool we had a talk about ai with Seán and Dominik and they each had their own talk, Seán spoke about generative ai, machine learning ai and deep ai and then Dominik spoke to us about the benifits of ai and the problem with ai.
Then for our lunch myself, Oisín and Adam went down to the nearby deli and got some lunch and when we got back we played some more pool
After lunch we had to make a presentation about Rain garden using ai pictures and information I was paired up with Jack and we made a powerpoint and used ChatGPT for our information and we used deep ai for the pictures.
At the end of the day we had a talk with Poalo on a zoom call in italy and he was talking about F1 and how he can watch the stats from his sons Xbox game from online sources which I found quite interesting and would like to see more about it in the future.
Friday
This is what I did on friday
This morning we did our last stand up and right after we went and started programming a controller and reciever for cars so we could race them
I was in a group with Adam and Jeffrey and we spent about two hours,. just before we went on our break we had a retrospective where we spoke about what they should add what they should stop doing and what they should continue doing.
After that we went on our break and because of it being our last day we had Dominos pepporoni pizza and it was so nice once we were finished eating we played some pool.
After our lunch break we went into the main conference room and raced our cars my group won every race we did and it was so much fun.
At the end of the day we did our blogs and our parents can come in and my mam will be coming in at 4