Group 3

Jackson mid-air, moments before an Jackson started telling me
and-one. about how serious basketball
gets.“You have to realize, the
Advice from jackson: teams will get more rigid and
1). Constant Repetition more challenging to beat, and
2). Get out of your comfort the teams will narrow and
zone narrow until it's only the finest
3). Own your mistakes players.” By informing me of
4). Don’t dwell on the past this I got a general idea of one
5). Don’t always practice of the struggles of a high school
what your good at basketball player. Jackson also
told me about his function in
Jackson seconds before a lay-up. basketball. Jackson plays
position 3 or small forward,
along with point guard. His
specific position varies in
different situations.
Nevertheless, these versatile
positions call for a good
defender and suitable shooter.

From what I can tell
Jackson is a great teammate.
“We all have our moments when
we are and are not good
teammates. To be a good one
you'll have to pick people up
when they're down while you
can also tell people what they
do wrong and call them out on
it". I agree with this.

If you're wondering if being attached to
basketball affects your decisions and abilities, it
does. “A Lot of my decisions in my life depend
on basketball, sure I miss out on things but in
the end, it all comes back to what I love,
basketball. It makes me more of a cautious
person because one wrong move risks
basketball.’’

While Jackson will do whatever he can to
play basketball, he knows he’ll end up going
down a different path later in life. Canales
hopes to be successful and support a family. “I
will never give up on basketball, it gives me the
motivation to keep moving forward and to
never, ever give up in life”.

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Vigilant

A conversation with
Vagdevi

By Vihaan Tandon

A picture of Mrs Tandon

My interview is on Vagdevi Tandon. She is important to When her company started a branch
me because she is my mother. I am doing an interview China, the CEO of the business invited
about her working career and the name she made for her to join the China organization. That
herself. was the time i was just 3 months old,
Mrs Tandon is an Electronics and communication She felt it was great opportunity for her
Engineer and she started her career in India in an and could not let go. It was a tough
automotive company as a software engineer. In her 9 1/2 decision for her because it meant that
years of her career at the cars company she rose up the she would have to go there by herself
ranks and was also deputed to Germany for about 5 with her new born as her husband’s job
years where she worked on several projects for car was still in India. That was when her
manufacturers like VolksWagen, Audi etc.. Living in mother decided to join her to support her.
Germany and working with them gave her experience and So she left to China with her mom and
appreciation to different cultures. Fun fact is that it was newborn on her new adventure.
here that she met her husband, my dad. It was new world for her in China, and
Upon returning to India she decided to switch jobs as she she had to learn to understand their
wanted to work for the healthcare industry. She felt it was culture and be able to work with them.
a great field to continue her career that was focused on She also learnt the language to be able
people and their well being. She joined there as a to become a part of the team. She lead
software engineering manager and was very successful in the introduction of many products to the
her job. market.

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A picture of her and her co-workers standing next to the first digital pet ct

She became the Director of Program But she always liked to pick up challenges, so
management for all of China managing 2 sites. she took over the project. There was a steerco, (a
After spending about 5 years in China, she got an meeting of the steering committee) that was
offer to move to Cleveland as the global head of formed to monitor this project and she had to
program management for the entire Business. It report the progress of this project on a weekly
was a time when the business was in a tough basis. Facing the steerco was not a easy task,
situation with the regulatory agencies and had she had to be on top of things and have the right
stopped all production of medical systems. She responses to all their questions. She set up a
lead many projects to clear off the issues with the command center where she had all the core team
regulatory bodies to restart the production. members sitting, she did an elaborate plan for
Her company had announced the introduction of executing the project and decided on the release
their first Digital PET CT product to the market time. She had a countdown clock put in the
and it was considerably delayed due to the command center for the release date which was
regulatory issues. And many Program managers about 18 months from the time she finished her
had tried to release the product and had failed. It plan. Her team was a globe team with about 250
was them she was asked by the business leader engineers working from China, India, Israel and
if she could take this challenge. I was a critical United states. Her motto as she led this project
project for the company and it was a “do or die” was “what does not kill you only makes you
situation. Many of her colleagues warned that this stronger”, finally she did deliver the project as
mission was a “chance in a million” to work as planned on the date she had promised to the
there were many who tried and failed. steerco.