Report Date: 5/19/2006 3:38:33 PM Tuesday, April 4 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades [695BEA40DEC24A92A26AFAA1A6C1E5D2] "RESPONSE ID" "NAME" "USERNAME" "DATE SUBMITTED" "FIELD_35F97673C2E94AA5A7673E1DA94C6D17" "FIELD_C592736E88FE4BD8BD77392B494B5670" "FIELD_76BB1126B0ED449CA2D213EECEBCCC3E" "303EAB529EBA4866AD1BFECC775244A7" "Achard, Christopher" "achardct" "4/6/2006 1:40:39 PM" "3 hours" "Class time, and then we spent time doing documents for our teams. Also discussed a lot about strategy for beyond botball." "Some people on the team have too much energy, and some don't have enough - it's fine though, our team is still good." "B02E0C737E33409C8E26B719244C9AE1" "Aigner, Thomas" "aignerte" "4/9/2006 1:25:38 PM" "3.5 hours" "tuesday - class wendsday - went to North Vigo with Ben and ran there meeting." "tuesday - we decided to just brainstorm over break and come back to start constructing our beyond botball robot. wendsday - I think it went very well. The meeting with smoothly. We ran our team building exercise and the kids got a kick out of making the group stories. Acouple of them were sad that they couldn't work on the robots but that was about the only bad part of the meeting." "B112D22A259249F7A03E46E26FF2E170" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "4/20/2006 12:09:20 AM" "1.5 hours" "In class exercises. Discussion of our robot. Discussion of helpful website for our team." "It is a little hard to split up the work for the assignment. We seem to be gearign up more for the competition and designing our robot now." "A2CE7FDF6F9B409683D125CF8C1BCFF1" "Barthel, Paul" "barthep" "4/17/2006 3:47:23 PM" "2.5 hours" "I don't completely remember how much time I spent working on this day since you didn't post the survey early enough and I also failed to make notes.. As far as I remember we had class on this day and I most probably worked on some assigned tasks, too." "" "28E287463D374EE791608E1C5874B720" "Blackburn, W. Ryan" "blackbwr" "4/6/2006 2:27:03 PM" "2 hours" "Class time was spent talking with professors about our teams. I did a little more example programs for the long term project for our teams. Also we are planning on meeting tomorrow for a group meeting." "Our group seems to be coming along fine and we will be interacting with most of our teams this week." "4AFF3410DDED4ACD90B47054D0102C92" "Blankenbaker, Zachariah" "blankezd" "4/17/2006 11:23:15 PM" "2 hours" "class time + 1 contemplating possible beyond botball strategies" "lots of possible strategies to take. " "0B7C75CB374F49C39D2C07D6D4B835A3" "Boyce, Jonathan" "boycejs" "4/7/2006 11:36:27 AM" "2 hours" "Went to class and spent some time afterwards talking to people about how to keep kids attention." "- I encountered no problems. - I think the people I talked to and myself learned something about keeping kids interested in what we're saying. - We just let whoever wanted to talk, talk. This was during the report what you did section of the class. - I learned that 60% of my team is taking or has taken Japanese. I think that's interesting since the teams were assigned pretty randomly. - I think maybe for adults as well, having an activity during a lecture that makes them stand up and do something might be useful." "C1E64E1E03474F598D7FBE0518D257B1" "Chvojicek, Benjamin" "chvojibc" "4/5/2006 6:47:40 PM" "1 hour" "Gave update on teams." "We got a few gameplans for staying in touch with the teams but I feel we are doing very well." "E92588A4B57B42EAA1A5A86A6D36D237" "Collins, Mary" "collinmm" "4/16/2006 4:51:46 PM" "1 hour" "Class. I don't remember what we did in class." "" "0B44797F719E4E63BFA912D7705562D9" "Dial, Scott" "dialsa" "4/6/2006 9:59:11 AM" "4 hours" "We met in class to talk about our progress with the Botball teams. We spent time in the evening discussing the website and working on that." "I was unable to coerce everyone into an in-person meeting this time. We met online in an AIM chatroom which worked just fine. Due to scheduling problems, I was in the lab assisting so it was difficult for me to be completely active, however because it was an AIM log, I could always go back and read what was said. Previously, I had not appreciated the value of having the meetings logged." "F6A8A68D971D4C1FB153DD9FD64451A1" "Dunning, Nicholas" "dunninnb" "4/17/2006 10:04:46 AM" "2 hours" "I spent one hour in class and one hour researching botball." "I learned more about beyond botball and started to think of strategies for the game." "890E9EC29A4148AEA112266525646744" "Ersson, Krishnamurti" "erssonkk" "4/16/2006 6:32:54 PM" "1 hour" "Today I thought about the design for the Beyond Botball competition." "Today I did a little bit of mental brainstorming and skimmed the official competition instructions. Unfortunately I did not have much time to work today, so I couldn't get much accomplished." "1E5925CB1E814A08947440D6DF9E7710" "Garrette, Kimbrell" "garretkj" "4/17/2006 12:48:08 PM" "2 hours" "Went to Woodrow Wilson and taught the children about all the equipment." "It was really succesful and the kids seemed to have really learned a lot." "C14856040C444955A61E023802DBE461" "Halvorson, Christopher" "halvorcr" "4/5/2006 9:33:24 PM" "1.5 hours" "1 hour - class 30 minutes - thinking & composing email" "We talked about how communication with our HS / MS teams are going. The team I've been in contact with just sort of dropped off the radar shortly after my first email exchange. I sent them another email to let them know what's been going on on our side. We'll see what happens from here." "184C2C449CEA4371BD9F8E7C3299B170" "Hochstedler, Jason" "hochstja" "4/17/2006 6:55:42 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "FFE385A218F34064895C4F28C07E4A5B" "Hochstedler, Jason" "hochstja" "4/17/2006 6:56:51 PM" "1 hour" "Worked in class. Formulated ways to figure out how to succeed at beyond botball." "We decided to block the opponent's ability to score." "2AFA5B8C9A4148F89FFD8E95606D49A9" "Knutson, Erik" "knutsoej" "5/15/2006 5:57:22 PM" "1 hour" "Can't remember, assuming just class time for these since that's probably all I did during this time." "" "8DCE6856F771433ABBA8629D5E4BCB8D" "Kornienko, Ivan" "kornieis" "4/17/2006 11:33:46 AM" "2 hours" "We started discussing how we are going to visit a school." "During our visit to one of our assigned schools we plan to help them with different technical aspects of the robot" "70E3D1F7B8434D5CBDBA9B6785BB4885" "Kowalik, Kenneth" "kowalika" "4/17/2006 2:39:29 AM" "2 hours" "Met with the team about Beyond Botball, and also read through half of the IC manual, which I've been meaning to do for a while." "The first half of the manual for IC talks a lot about functions that are very much like regular C's, if not identical." "795B14C7584940349972B0657CC0E9F3" "Meyer, D. Christopher" "meyerdc" "4/17/2006 5:37:34 PM" "2.5 hours" "The team went to WWMS and gave the team a crash course on the sensors and programming." "While the kinds didn't seem too receptive to the talk, they did seem to have picked up a bit of information whne we quizzed them. Kids don't like to learn the basics of programming. It's boring." "7E631E03DDDE4B9697C59CFB372EA129" "Mohling, Nathan" "mohlinna" "4/5/2006 11:04:04 AM" "1 hour" "I went to class." "I realized today that I haven't had much contact with the teams, except for the one weekend workshop. I've been trying to come in on the Saturday mornings to work with North Vigo, but random things have prevented me each time. Hopefully I will get a chance to after break." "F985F5A82B5F4210B19CE396D956EEA8" "Musial, Bryan" "musialbk" "4/16/2006 8:13:02 PM" "3 hours" "Finished pulling together data for the technical exercise. The document was compiled and formatted." "" "351EDA5CF0064CCFA8851FD72987908E" "Myung, Seho" "myungs" "4/4/2006 6:02:58 PM" "2 hours" "In class time, wrote my portion of the IC "cheat sheet" and filled out surveys." "" "EAEAD1527B224BD88173F064FEA01374" "Nicklyn, Nicholas" "nicklynj" "4/7/2006 12:01:21 PM" "1 hour" "class" "more on beyond botball, discussed possible activities we could do with our botball teams and more on Extreme Programming!" "D25B185270124C94B4E86CD833DD4EC2" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:48:00 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "4EC047BBDF184D0DA959D9AB204483C6" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "4/17/2006 2:49:33 PM" "1 hour" "classtime (forgot we moved it to tuesday from thursday)" "nothing major that i remember" "8D02A71244444559AF32ED00F95F90FC" "Pethick, Lindsay" "pethiclc" "4/17/2006 11:24:56 PM" "2 hours" "Attended class, and did a little extra work in researching parts for legos." "I think it was a good experience for me to learn a little more about legos and their parts. I did this by logging on to the lego website and looking at the parts they listed there. Obviously we won't have all of these types at our disposal, but I found it useful to get a better idea of what sort of things are possible with the medium." "3F76C98F0B3943628F0AD765E0A7D9D8" "Phillips, Jacob" "phillijr" "4/18/2006 8:08:51 AM" "2 hours" "Worked on extreme programming techniques." "" "922F2CC20CD848C5B48FD6BA6F4C9E1A" "Poehler, Lance" "poehlelm" "4/5/2006 6:51:01 PM" "5 hours" "Early in the morning I received and replied to an email from Christopher regarding school contact information. I also completed the surveys for March 31st-April 2nd and April 3rd. After that I got ready for our trip to Woodrow Wilson. Once I had everything in line, I meet with my team and then drove to Woodrow Wilson. " "Tuesday was a pretty good day. Our group went to Woodrow Wilson by ourselves for the first time. I would say that for the most part the students listened to us. We played a game with the students called human programming. After the students got the basic idea we showed them all of the different motors and sensors and then helped them write their first program. We didn’t have much time so we went pretty fast. I can’t think of a better way to teach the middle school students about programming that would make it more exciting. Many of the students really seemed like they got it. I think this team will do fine in this competition. We will just need to keep working with the students to get them to feel more comfortable with the software and equipment." "7438E836B48A471C8B2AFFF271AFEAA7" "Sadeli, Jeffrey" "sadelij" "4/7/2006 11:43:51 PM" "1 hour" "in class" "we played around with electronic whiteboard a little bit, introduced to our botball rules: beyond botball." "66389C2603424A08BA33F483F450EA8C" "Spencer, Andrew" "spenceal" "4/19/2006 12:01:52 AM" "0 hours" "" "" "03A45537D5244C179769992A0B5E6A19" "Spencer, Andrew" "spenceal" "4/19/2006 12:02:24 AM" "1 hour" "class" "" "ECA39CA66E3648CD86C8AB3EDAB498F0" "Stachowski, Matthew" "stachoma" "4/20/2006 1:23:19 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "FECDA7EEEB0F481C8810ED6738A6A0C7" "Sullivan, Johnathan" "sullivja" "4/5/2006 10:19:36 PM" "2.5 hours" "I attended class. I prepared my portion of the teams IC cheat sheet." "Class time was spent very effectively in a brainstorming peroid. We thought of many great ideas of directions to take the robot. We also talked about doing a little bit of work over break. " "7AC3578766FB410B8A4D0240EF1E42C2" "Tharp, Samuel" "tharpsf" "4/5/2006 1:41:50 AM" "2.5 hours" "1 hr class 1.5 hr overenuthiastically trying too hard (oh... and discussing botball strategies)" "In class, we got into groups and talked about where we sat with our assigned teams. Lucky for us, we had nothing to say because or teams never really got AHOLD of us. Thus, I chalk it up to a miss and move on. I have told each team that if they want our help, they should contact us, and I believe this to be the best course of action. If they want us, they can come get us. That simple. The rest of the time was spent showing off all the ideas I had for our robot(s) in the "Beyond Botball" compeition. From turtling (holding out on our side) to zerg rushing (making 4 robors to attack together at once) I described each of my plans to my fellow team mates. As it turns out, they only really liked one as they figured that the rest of my crazy ideas where... a bit too far complex. However, the ideas for a barrier to use against the oppenants robot(s) has passed inital critism and I hope that the rest of this week (and break) I can come up plans and ideas for it." "5596D3F81050462098101EA300D93CD1" "Thayer, Jordan" "thayerjt" "4/18/2006 1:33:14 PM" "1.5 hours" "We had a team meeting where we discussed ideas for our teams of children." "" "BB957F62D7944065B4577AC35BDF3E79" "Turpyn, Michael" "turpynmr" "4/5/2006 9:33:04 PM" "1.5 hours" "We updated people in the class about our Botball project, and I continued to try and make contact with our Centerville botball team." "The coach from the school responded to the e-mail I sent yesterday, and we set a time on Thursday for a meeting with her. We will be communicating via telephone because her school is a fair distance away. "