we had an evening where all of our volunteers presented their presentations to each other. This also mean that everyone had at least a base knowledge of other teams’ presentations, so that throughout the year they could easily learn the presentations if they had to present another team’s topic. Reflections The central issue we faced this year was forming relationships with schools amidst a floodgate of presentations, and limited time slots. As Access is still a relatively new and developing team, we came to reflect on how we might change the way the Access team operates in the future. We found that there are various ways that this team can be reshaped and restructured to become the most effective and efficient it can be moving forward. This could include establishing year-long relationships with educational facilities to build more personal connections between students and presenters, potentially spreading the focus to include university halls, and developing electronic learning resources that we then disperse throughout schools to use at their own discretion rather than finding time slots with us. Our volunteers came up with various exciting ideas that have a lot of potential for the team. Volunteers General Contributions We had an absolutely fantastic core group of volunteers this year. However, we found that often it was the same group of volunteers who were signing up and offering to do the presentations and symposiums. In part, this was the Managers’ fault. We struggled to get schools on board and so for this reason we really struggled to keep cohesion. In hindsight, given the lack of schools that we had to present to we should have organised different charity fundraisers that our volunteers could have led to keep the team culture going. Volunteer Numbers We had 31 volunteers, which was an increase from last year’s cohort, due to a significant amount of impressive applications. While it was a pleasure to have such a large team, we did find that the number was too large, with the consequence that it often left some of the volunteers significantly less engaged and contributing less. We would recommend reverting the volunteer back to around 2016’s amount, which was around 24 volunteers, or even less. We are of the opinion that the Access team needs to be smaller and more cohesive, to ensure participation from all members. Confirmed 2016 Volunteer List Caitlin Anyon-Peters Adriana Bird Rachel Buckman Tom Blackwell Sussman Jessica Dellabarca Lexi Finucane Gary Hofman Jemima Huston Davida Iosefa Naushyn Penelope Jones Edward Krishna Sophia Kwintkiewicz Lisa Lamers Robyn Lesatele Andrea Lim
we had an evening where all of our volunteers presented their presentations to each other. This also mean that everyone had at least a base knowledge of other teams’ presentations, so that throughout the year they could easily learn the presentations if they had to present another team’s topic. Reflections The central issue we faced this year was forming relationships with schools amidst a floodgate of presentations, and limited time slots. As Access is still a relatively new and developing team, we came to reflect on how we might change the way the Access team operates in the future. We found that there are various ways that this team can be reshaped and restructured to become the most effective and efficient it can be moving forward. This could include establishing year-long relationships with educational facilities to build more personal connections between students and presenters, potentially spreading the focus to include university halls, and developing electronic learning resources that we then disperse throughout schools to use at their own discretion rather than finding time slots with us. Our volunteers came up with various exciting ideas that have a lot of potential for the team. Volunteers General Contributions We had an absolutely fantastic core group of volunteers this year. However, we found that often it was the same group of volunteers who were signing up and offering to do the presentations and symposiums. In part, this was the Managers’ fault. We struggled to get schools on board and so for this reason we really struggled to keep cohesion. In hindsight, given the lack of schools that we had to present to we should have organised different charity fundraisers that our volunteers could have led to keep the team culture going. Volunteer Numbers We had 31 volunteers, which was an increase from last year’s cohort, due to a significant amount of impressive applications. While it was a pleasure to have such a large team, we did find that the number was too large, with the consequence that it often left some of the volunteers significantly less engaged and contributing less. We would recommend reverting the volunteer back to around 2016’s amount, which was around 24 volunteers, or even less. We are of the opinion that the Access team needs to be smaller and more cohesive, to ensure participation from all members. Confirmed 2016 Volunteer List Caitlin Anyon-Peters Adriana Bird Rachel Buckman Tom Blackwell Sussman Jessica Dellabarca Lexi Finucane Gary Hofman Jemima Huston Davida Iosefa Naushyn Penelope Jones Edward Krishna Sophia Kwintkiewicz Lisa Lamers Robyn Lesatele Andrea Lim
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