The skill that matters more than being technically good
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All right, everyone. My name's Zar, and
I am the director of TKS here in
Calgary. So, we just finished our
showcase, which is where all the
students come to present their work that
they've been working on so hard over the
past 9 months here at TKS.
>> And how do you think they changed in
this past 10 months of TKS?
>> I mean, there's so many areas of growth
for these students. There's three kind
of buckets we focus on at TKS. There's
the project building, then there's also
like the mindsets and the frameworks of
thinking, and then there's the
relationship building aspect of things.
And so, you know, as much as we focus on
the technology building and portfolio
building, we also focus on developing
the soft skills, being able to go
approach people and, you know, uh pitch
your ideas to them and look make eye
contact and shake their hands and, you
know, all of those things take practice
and [music] it takes time to uh build
those skills. And so, that's actually
the biggest area of growth is not
actually even on the technical front.
It's on the all of those soft skills and
to be able to come into the classroom
and, you know, be boots on the ground
with the kids going through the
trenches. They're turning their projects
into real-life [music] problem-solving,
actually creating impact. And just
seeing that growth from when they
started to where they are now has been
really awesome for me.
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Zar, director of TKS Calgary, discusses the progress of students following their nine-month showcase. He highlights that while students develop technical skills, their most significant growth occurs in soft skills, such as networking, communication, and real-world problem-solving.
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