The weekend began with the AISHA team leaving for the World Hope Office with an assortment of tasks for the day. Having realized the lack of contextual details in our database, we were committed to spending our time resolving the issue. 

Upon reaching World Hope, we had a brief discussion on the current state of our project and proceeded to divide the database’s contents among us with everyone inspecting the information. While Vrushti and Simone resumed their work on the code, optimizing it for customization, the rest of us started to review each available topic in the database. Spending a good chunk of time on that, we reached an epiphany. 

Such a time-consuming task was not a necessity at this point. We realized that, at our stage, having a demo that validates the existence of AISHA is more important than combing through and perfecting the entire database. We decided to select 5 questions for each department, refine them, and develop a plan that would allow us to demo these questions without errors. Per the plan, we started to pick out relevant topics and identify relevant questions for Nurse Victoria’s department first – SRH. These questions encompassed a variety of topics such as Cervical Cancer, STIs, Screenings, etc.

Vrushti and Simone proceeded to integrate the questions into our device to prepare for the demo, and the others spent their time drawing up a strategy for the meeting. This entailed assigning team roles in various areas such as Tech, Usability, and Communication. Additionally, we worked towards and completed a guide for the Nurse to follow when testing the device to eliminate any unforced errors in usability. 

Following a quick lunch break, the team took on the upcoming challenge on the next day – a Sparring Session. The aforementioned session consisted of a 5-minute presentation for our instructors containing a work strategy, threads of inquiry, current progress made, and a path towards impacting 1 million people. AISHA commenced work towards the presentation, designing the slides and rehearsing our dialogues.

Birds outside our office window.

Rating: 2.5/5