Srijani wanted to learn all about buttercreams which is the foundation for baking cakes. Rather than merely replicating well known recipes, she designed a project for herself. #worktolearn
What was her project?
Experiment and also, innovate different variants of buttercreams by tweaking the ingredients, using different brands of ingredients and looking at substitutes.
To take her project a notch higher, guides suggested she get the opinion of professional bakers by visiting the nearest town. And then Srijani had her eureka moment, ‘why just bakers, why not share it with the common public (ultimately consumers) and get their feedback too’.
‘Taking it out to the world’ meant she had to bake many many many cakes which made her quite nervous. She discussed it with her cohort about the entire trip, briefed them about the process and their respective roles, in a way became a ‘project manager’ overnight.
The cohort stayed up late at night to get the batches of cake prepared, presented and packed. Next morning, they geared up with all the resources to head to hosur where they – visited a bakery shop, met with a home baker and of course, the big deal – put up a stall on a busy street to get the public to try their cakes. Different marketing strategies came into play and in the end, they were sold out completely!
#worktolearn is huge part of a CoVersity Journey. Learning is never uni-dimensional or isolated. Designing a project yourself also helps you examine different nuances of the domain. It makes the learning contextual, relevant, practical and undoubtedly, joyous!