It is also effective at integrating different types of knowledge and skill and coping with the project risks and uncertainties common in CoPS projects.
Instead, we can be very strategic in the talent we bring in to assure our collective skill set perfectly aligns with the project.
Twenty growers agreed to take part in a case-study component designed to build their scouting, pest identification, and cultural control skills through regular contact with the project team; this contact also helped farmers understand action thresholds and how to use cultural control strategies with more precision.
Along with professional skills the project participants get, they also learn how to pitch their own ideas and work individually without interference of the program producers.
For example, many students noted improvements in communication skills from the project experiences, with one student stating, "Now we've done so many projects it's not even really a big deal anymore just to get up in front of people and start talking".
Davis credited Cooney's motivation to be involved with the project with her journalism skills, learned early in her career, and her idealism, which drove her to want to, as she put it, "make a difference".
Strong, fast, intelligent, and gregarious as they are, they demonstrate the same highs, lows, hope, promise, and pitfalls we see daily in the adolescents developing technology skills with The Hidden Genius Project.
When there are multiple volunteers with the right skills set for the project, the company can do its own screening to narrow down the candidates.
Spire helps these companies identify talent with required skills, and matches them with the projects they can execute, all in real time.
A scientific organizing committee must then try to select a number of these and match all other participants and their skills with suitable project partners.
