But actually it’s just me, Kellen, that’s back. So like most people’s startups, StemEd (the original purpose of this blog) did not take off due to time? Burn out? Lack of motivation? The career paths we ended up taking? While StemEd did not last, this blog did – it has been live since 2015. Even though our last post (and I’m pretty sure the last time I logged in before this week) was back in 2016, I have been paying for this domain every year for the last few years. I did think about cancelling it every year when that invoice came but would forget, then be charged and be like guess I’ll do something with it then. Well, it has taken 4 years, a global pandemic and my second lockdown to finally do something with this. I think I’ll mostly be posting about the random things I make and the process.

I’m leaving all our old posts up because they were funny to read and somewhat interesting(?) I did find a draft post that Sing wrote. I won’t officially post it but you can read it below.

I also couldn’t delete our ‘Why’ and ‘About’ pages without saving them because I have hoarding tendencies.

Soooo this past week Sing and I had our first disagreement/argument/clash/fight. And it SUCKED. I knew we would have our fair share of disagreements and that we wouldn’t see eye to eye on everything, I was actually kind of just almost waiting for this to happen to get our first fight over and done with, but it still sucked nonetheless.

I’m a little stubborn when it comes to the way I do things especially when I set out an entire structure and expect it to be followed so when Sing waltzed right in and started changing things around I got a little uneasy and was not happy. I didn’t understand what he was doing so I was a little (read: a lot) annoyed and the vicious cycle of him getting annoyed at me getting annoyed at him began. What made it worse was that we were in a library when this happened so we were kind of whisper shouting trying to explain over the top of each other lol…

But all is well because StemEd is more important than our egos and really, we both just want the perfect product. We sat on it for a few hours, talked it out and got some butter chicken because butter chicken is always the answer and can fix everything.

Kellen

Last week was hectic, the internship took up most of our time during the day and part-time work took up the remaining part. Trying to finish this module was more time consuming than I first thought (deadline by end of this week!!!). We are currently planning the layout and producing content designed for ease of use and aligned with current curriculum. Hopefully when this module is finished, we should have a good guideline to how to structure and make content for the other ones. It’s all coming together!

We also recently started our social media pages to reserve the names. Hardest task by far in this whole project was starting our social media pages. Everything was taken! We tried StemEd, StemEducation, StemEdu, even StemEduc… (some inactive stem news thing on twitter). We also thought about changing our name, one of the suggestions was StemX, which we both thought was reallllly cool and got attached to that quite quickly, but sadly, it was taken. In the end, we found handles that weren’t taken and we still stuck to our original name, while expressing who we are. So follow us on the social medias!

http://www.facebook.com/wearestemed
http://www.twitter.com/wearestemed
http://www.instagram.com/wearestemed

Next time though, I’ll probably just use a random name generator to come up with names, much less effort required. Next start-up is going to be called:

Trying his hardest as always

Sing

Last week we managed to get a gig volunteering at Above All Human this start up/tech/design conference and it was awesome.

Hands down the best talk was by Mike Monteiro the co-funded of Mule design studio. His talk was about how this is the golden age of design and how we’re all screwed. He talked about how designers are now leading companies but don’t have the experience to and how there isn’t anyone to mentor them. Quote of the talk was

It’s not disruption when it’s white boys getting rich again and again. Help build a better world, find real problems to solve.

Other highlights included meeting Emelia from MasterChef

And poop emoji cookies from the team at Slack

Definitely going to be attending next year.

Kellen

#GSDGSDGSD

Get shit done. It’s time to put more time into this. Time to stop talking about what we’re going to do, what we’re going to accomplish and set out to accomplish those goals.

Tasks for the week:
1. Set up social media
2. Draft up information flyer
3. Finish the 10 week plan workshop and start on making the package we’re selling to schools.

Deadline will be next Monday 1st Feb. Ready to smash this! #GSD

Sing