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#10. How do you feel about the CASA program? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy most about your time in CASA?

I think the CASA program is in a development phase but it has a great goal in mind. I like how students are required to do at least two structured projects per semester to cover our curriculum rather than tests. Another thing I like about CASA is that we have the opportunity to pick any problem we saw (or we thought of ourselves during our projects) and we can use the design process to do our best to find a practical solution. We can think of an idea in our head and as long as we can put it onto paper to justify it, we can get ahold of materials we need to create/innovate it, along with …show more content…

For example Before I started programming my hand, I made simple things like a grams to pounds calculator and a program that would solve the pythagorean theorem given the user's input values. This ultimately expanded my knowledge very far in something I had never even tried before, therefore why I think I had the most improvement here.

#7. When you consider the rest of your life, what did you learn in CASA that will be useful to you in the future.

I have learned more advanced troubleshooting skills and software basics. I have also learned how I can interact with members of my community to help me solve problems I run into on my way to a solution to a problem.These things will help me in my future because being a good problem solver is a well sought after trait in possible employees so that will allow me to market myself better as a person when trying to get a good job, along with the possible benefits it could mean for the company while i'm working there. It also gave me the opportunity to exercise my interpersonal skills by being able to reach out to professionals at the University of Missouri to help answer some of my questions. Which is good because it helps me to be better at finding a solution to problems with other people well.

#4. What is something that was hard for you at

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