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This project was incredibly beneficial, and I feel I strengthened my technical and conceptual skills considerably. This project contained many points of growth and firsts for us students and NuVu as a whole. My experience was notably beneficial in terms of growth through working on client interaction, project scope, and time management. I also greatly valued the experience of integration into the

Kroka community and loved the time I spent on campus. Further, the hands-off coaching technique our coach employed greatly improved my learning experience with client interaction like no other system. The ability to learn by failure and persevere through hard problems was an incredibly effective learning method that greatly reinforced my project management skills.

The Kroka Collaboration was a project focusing on the designing of multiple installations for the organization Kroka Explorations, a wilderness survival school over 100 miles away from NuVu. I pursued the creation and design of three solutions to problems ranging from boat lifting systems to drying firewood with solar kilns. Later on, our team made a series of excursions ranging up to multiple days to install our prototypes on the Kroka campus. Through the three weeks that we spent collaborating with Kroka, we installed a 7:1 pulley system that vastly increased the efficiency of their boat lifting system, a rocket stove capable of boiling waters on multiple burners, and schematics for a 24-cord bandwidth solar kiln.