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Daily Prep: Tuesday, April 14, 2026

AS:DE team meeting + Gregory catch-up. Timecard due tomorrow.

Carried Forward from Yesterday

Incomplete Action Items

  • Cathy’s data parsing — Camryn confirmed Option B (merge “Strengths:” header with first bullet)
  • Retag meeting notes — Josh’s 3 Google Doc action items (Apr 8)
  • Reply to Monica Chen on Slack — Rachel Wolf’s grant proposal context
  • Reply to Slack re: workshop promotion ideas (sent seed grantee emails yesterday — mention to Joe/Josh)
  • Reply to Leon Furze — confirm reschedule
  • Forward Egencia receipts to Moraima — overdue
  • Reply to Anthony Pollina — review his AI lesson plan
  • Weigh in on Efface/Privacy Office thread
  • Draft CRM survey questions — Josh waiting
  • Follow up with Vanessa Monterosa re: Flash Lab partnership
  • Send Rachel AI + learning-by-creating tool recommendations
  • Cat Nostrand follow-up (no reply since Mar 16)
  • Create Flash Lab inventory document (basic vs deluxe)
  • Download CRISPRkit TestFlight (code: NGEHQB)
  • Check with GSE IT about loaner Android devices / Chromebooks
  • Research Android apps on Chromebooks for CRISPRkit

Open Questions/Blockers

  • Marily/Caitlin: IRB feedback on Health Coach Bot
  • Brooke (OTL): Geoff Cox + YouCubed contract precedent
  • ISTE: Alissa scheduling meeting with Jessica Rami + Isabelle — watch for invite

Today’s Calendar

11:00 AM — AS:DE Meeting (45 min)

With: Josh Weiss, Joe Sherman Location: Zoom Context: Weekly team meeting. Topics to raise:

  • Sent 4 seed grantee CHECK-IN emails yesterday (Fan, Ramirez/Forssell, King, DeVeaux) — inviting to Thursday’s Shaping the Narrative workshop + offering to meet. Logged in Airtable.
  • Workshop planning update from yesterday’s session with Joe
  • Studio Services meeting tomorrow (Wed 2pm) — any prep needed?
  • DCI Flash Lab June 5 — confirmed with Isabelle, scoping to 50 people

1:00 PM — Greg::Reuben (30 min)

With: Gregory Wilson II (AI Tinkery Manager) Context: Gregory co-facilitated Flash Lab with 16 York Scholars at the Tinkery during Stanford trip (late March). Build-a-Bot facilitator training completed Mar 3. Tinkery Toolkit collaboration active. Flash Lab quality assessment was topic of Josh 1:1 Friday — feedback form for external facilitators (problem statement, prototype, enduring question). Good time to discuss with Gregory.

6:30 PM — Civil Air Patrol

Location: Hope in the Valley Baptist Church, 1480 N Kirby St, Hemet

Slack Catch-Up

No DM unreads. All clear.

Still pending from last week:

  • Monica Chen — Rachel Wolf’s grant proposal context
  • Sarah Williams-Habibi — asked about Stanford AI API key logs (Apr 10, multi-DM with Wilson Wang). Wilson answered already — may not need Reuben’s input, but check.

Email Action Items

Today’s Emails

  • Axess Timecard Reminder — due tomorrow (Apr 15). Submit today.
  • Newsletters only (TLDR AI, Stanford Report). No actionable emails.

Still Pending from Earlier

  • Camryn Franke — data parsing Option B (implement)
  • Josh (Google Docs x3) — retag seed grant tracking docs
  • Moraima — Studio Services / Jaylen/Roy invite (tomorrow’s meeting context)

Reminders

Claude-ToDo (new item)

  • Add Airtable entry about talking to Brenda — captured on mobile. Who is Brenda? Possibly from AI Show this weekend? Needs clarification.

Personal (Claude list)

  • Ask Chris at Ascendant Aviation re: tax questions
  • Buy echinacea herb for cold
  • Read: OpenAI Prompt Caching 201 cookbook (overdue since Feb 26)

From Inbox Processing

Inbox empty — nothing to process.

Cadence Checks

  • TIMECARD: Due TOMORROW (Wednesday, April 15). Axess sent a reminder this morning. Submit today.
  • STUDIO SERVICES (Wed Apr 15, 2pm): Big cross-team meeting with Doorley, Britos Cavagnaro, Cathy Chase, Moraima, Josh, Joe, Adam Royalty. Any prep needed? Ask at AS:DE.
  • sofIA MEETING (Fri Apr 17, 10:30am): Sergio Arango + Josh. Consider running /meeting-prep sofIA before Friday.
  • DeepLearning.AI Dev Day (Apr 28-29): 2 weeks out. Flights + hotel booked. Review agenda soon.

Today’s Priorities

Tuesday — two good meetings. Use morning and gaps for focused work.

  1. Submit timecard — due tomorrow, just do it now
  2. AS:DE Meeting (11am) — seed grantee outreach update, workshop planning, Studio Services prep
  3. Greg::Reuben (1pm) — Tinkery update, Flash Lab quality feedback form discussion
  4. Cathy’s data parsing — implement Option B if time between meetings
  5. Retag meeting notes — Josh’s Google Doc items
  6. Forward Egencia receipts to Moraima — still overdue, just send them

Session Notes

(Added throughout the day as significant work sessions occur)

Generated: 2026-04-14 8:15 AM PDT (Tuesday)

Source: daily/2026-04-14.md