Report Date: 5/19/2006 3:28:13 PM
Friday, March 17 through Sunday, March 19 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades  [8BAB710E9DCD48B495325E6F4C08EEB1]
"RESPONSE ID"	"NAME"	"USERNAME"	"DATE SUBMITTED"	"FIELD_89CCD408D19F43F9B664150485A6E3C0"	"FIELD_93B3925322B14E948494BC06080FECA1"	"FIELD_8E3C08CE6877498085DAF7688EE6BF28"
"7C33469E003C45E38970738364C73142"	"Achard, Christopher"	"achardct"	"3/20/2006 10:23:03 AM"	"6 hours"	"This was the botball days.  I helped out with the workshop, including helping people with programming, and with building their first bots."	"It was a good time i think.  Some of the people there didn't know what they were doing - and that was hard, but we worked hard and got through it."
"97EBC0CB474747E693970AF85B4AB4B5"	"Aigner, Thomas"	"aignerte"	"3/21/2006 7:07:17 PM"	"3 hours"	"Went to the botball session on saturday"	"I talked to the leaders of the group from St. mary.  The man was very knowledgeable in both programing and robotics.  He might need a little help with some programming problems but shouldn't have any problem designing and building a robot."
"8418C45B6A9044F8AD379D2DBBBB9EA2"	"Barnard, Curtis"	"barnarcp"	"3/21/2006 3:57:38 PM"	"3.5 hours"	"I came to the botball meeting and assisted a teacher in getting her package, testing, and answering questions she had. I also spent time thinking about methods of interaction between us and our groups."	"I encountered the problem of not knowing as much about the Botball equipment as several of the teachers that were there. I think I still did a good job of explaining what I saw as best I could. I learned lots about the new botball controlls and computers. I have been thinking that I would like to try and use alot of onlien communication with the teams assigned to us. E-mail, instant messenger, and even video streaming maybe."
"70DF83A54BF94A698CF57E282F7F1602"	"Barthel, Paul"	"barthep"	"3/17/2006 8:31:57 PM"	"6 hours"	"attending the teachers workshop (3 hours) going through the workshop slides by myself (for the 1st day) and preparing a summary document for IC and XBC also for the rest of my team and possibly the schools we will be working with"	"I think Jerry does a great job on the workshop and the teachers and kids show a good interest. I'm looking forward to working with the teams."
"035B5A72119A411DA0BAE21FE5D10D2E"	"Barthel, Paul"	"barthep"	"3/20/2006 8:05:25 PM"	"2 hours"	"ADDITIONALLY to my other submission. sorry, I screwed up on that and already submitted it on friday..   - attending the workshop"	""
"EE1EC819616F4445875171A04105CC70"	"Blackburn, W. Ryan"	"blackbwr"	"3/18/2006 4:59:04 PM"	"6 hours"	"3hrs friday in which we met teams, had some snacks and got my teams interested. 3hrs saturday for lunch and helped my teams again."	"We temporarily have a fifth school which is Decatur Middle/Highschool in which I got the info and we can discuss in class. She has about 12 students and this is their 2nd yr."
"C7B92F8215A54A2BBBEC380638ACCF5E"	"Blankenbaker, Zachariah"	"blankezd"	"3/24/2006 7:24:53 PM"	"3 hours"	"Met with team members from schools."	"We didn't encounter any major problems.  We got feedback immediately (ie, the team talked to us)."
"2012DA8773B045E79C713ACB446E2273"	"Boyce, Jonathan"	"boycejs"	"3/21/2006 6:56:59 PM"	"7 hours"	"I dropped into the session three times, and prepared each time by reading the distributed powerpoint to see what I would be expected to know. Afterwards I discussed what went on at the workshop with people from other teams and spent time thinking about it on my own."	"- I really thought I didn't know enough about robotics to be of any help, but I found out that most people just needed help with C. - I feel alot more comfortable about robotics now, so I think that I was successful in that regard. - We worked individually for this event, or at least I assumed that was my job, we don't really have a command structure. - I'll reiterate here that I learned that I do know enough to help these people, which is something that I seriously doubted before this weekend. - I found the speaker's explaination of programming for people who have never programmed before to be something I should remember how to do. He didn't sound condescending or panic-inducing."
"B638756334DB47319F888CEA2DBA9575"	"Chvojicek, Benjamin"	"chvojibc"	"3/19/2006 11:40:00 PM"	"7 hours"	"Assisted the botball teams in there seminar."	"It went well.  I now understand IC much better and also have a better grasp of their situation."
"2A6A047C5E004021AE4F2E8F01EDD21E"	"Collins, Mary"	"collinmm"	"3/21/2006 11:13:31 AM"	"5 hours"	"I attended the session on Saturday and helped teams learn about botball.  "	"The first hour was kind of pointless, as everyone was at lunch and I had already eaten.  The hour and a half after that was ok.  It was nice to have a review of what the teams would be working on before trying to help them out.  When the teams started doing the challenges, I went around and introduced myself to the three teams I'm to help out.  I gave them all my contact info.  Ladue was really neat because it was an all girl school.  They seemed very happy to have a female helping them out and I was told they tend to bash guys alot.  De La Salle seemed to do fine on the programming and had more trouble with the building and hardware parts of the bot.  They were also interesting and were interested in whether I had a job when I graduate.  International was neat because they all spoke French.  They seemed to have a good sense of what they were doing, so I didn't hang around them too much.  "
"EEFBBB79346A4DDB9647ECA5BB5BADC3"	"Dial, Scott"	"dialsa"	"3/20/2006 11:14:36 PM"	"4 hours"	"I attended the botball workshop for majority of the mornings and also the social (half-)hour in the evening on Friday."	"During the workshop, it was difficult to identify our teams and so I spent most of the morning just floating helping anyone who caught my attention. I found it difficult to make a good first impression with a mentor when I had no clue who those 4 people in a sea of 20. Once the evening social time came, it was almost too late to be trying to make conversation since they were all eager to go to dinner.  If I learned anything, if I was responsible for arranging such a workshop in which team members are to become attached to teams, then I would make that the first thing that happens in the morning. I would require at least one person from every student team be available to greet those mentors and then be able to pass the torch to other student team members as the day went on. In this way, the first day would become a viable time to get to know the correct mentors and to develop a repoire which could help sustain further communication."
"B3735E57DB7A495490179FD6BC27665D"	"Dunning, Nicholas"	"dunninnb"	"3/22/2006 11:17:25 AM"	"5 hours"	"I spent three hours in F225 helping students during the weekend seminar. I then spent two hours brainstorming for more team activities for our students"	"I was very pleased with how receptive our contacts were and how well the workshop went.  I think we have a better feel of what we need to do to help our teams succeed both technically and with teamwork."
"7C3C7B10FD104697827AA1BA8699E216"	"Ersson, Krishnamurti"	"erssonkk"	"3/20/2006 1:52:07 AM"	"8 hours"	"All my time this weekend was spent at the Botball conference. I was able to meet many of the teams, including two of our own (PIKE could not make it). One of the teams seemed excited to test out our team building exercises."	"This weekend was a great way to meet the actual teams, and get a better idea of what Botball is all about! As much as it was a learning experience for them, I also learned a lot about how to program in IC and how to use the vision system well. It also gave me a good idea for the level of experience among teams, as well as they're willingness to work with us. I look forward to hearing about other teams' experiences this weekend."
"C2E06FEC7150472A9D04F0B9A2A07AB6"	"Garrette, Kimbrell"	"garretkj"	"3/21/2006 9:44:28 AM"	"5 hours"	"I went to the Botball workshop."	"I helped the kids when they had problems with the programming or building the robots.  We also began to build a practice robot."
"FD2B1C15041F4F2E9E134948FECB4C27"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/20/2006 12:59:03 AM"	"2 hours"	"1 hour - help out with tutorial session 1 hour - social time with teams"	"I was only asked one question, and there were 2 others helping that same person (we all heard the same question and responded).  There were no difficulties whatsoever with the tutorial session, and the social time with teams was only difficult in that it could be hard to find out which team was which.  We found all our teams, though, so thankfully we were able to talk to everyone."
"E79A2114CAFC4843AEBFE8E53FAEA0CC"	"Hochstedler, Jason"	"hochstja"	"3/23/2006 1:16:17 PM"	"3.5 hours"	"I helped groups of people with whatever they needed on saturday."	"One group had trouble building their demo kit, so I showed them that they used incorrect parts before, and that's why they couldn't find the pieces that they needed."
"4E006300A1554D5B8E9253F909D6B700"	"Hudson, Marshall"	"hudsonmc"	"3/12/2006 12:26:01 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
"4B3449D68BFD42DB9CD4DBF8AF1D20B2"	"Hudson, Marshall"	"hudsonmc"	"3/19/2006 11:26:20 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"Botball kickoff"	"Legos were handed out and the teams were familiarized with the botball equipment, including sensors, legos, and compiler. Rose students assisted in their tutorials. "
"BA1F0A45BB294C99AFF1175B2685B439"	"Knutson, Erik"	"knutsoej"	"3/22/2006 11:33:57 AM"	"5 hours"	"On Friday, I went to meet the people from schools our team is to work with at the workshop.  Saturday, I went to the workshop to be available to help the people who needed it."	"I made contact with our school, though only interacted for a significant amount of time with one.  One was leaving and not returning the next day, and the other group stated that they were very experienced and probably would not need any help."
"9866C8A822164FCFAFB5FE1FE64D16A4"	"Kornienko, Ivan"	"kornieis"	"3/20/2006 10:50:47 PM"	"4 hours"	"Both on friday and saturday my team and I met with our schools."	"On these two days we found out alot about the schools we will be working with. Right of the bat we found out that two of the schools do not seem very interested in our help. This means we will probably focust our efforts on the schools that actually need it."
"55B861E1E3054DA496809A0BF8E28A25"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"3/20/2006 1:47:14 AM"	"6 hours"	"I tried to help on friday but everyone was going to lunch, I helped for about 3.5 hours on saturday, and helped setup computes on Sunday."	"The workshop on saturday was pretty cool.  I do wish that I was able to help more, but I wasn't familiar with the camera."
"026A18DECB0D43E1A0E813745DD90BCA"	"Meyer, D. Christopher"	"meyerdc"	"3/20/2006 9:45:38 PM"	"9 hours"	"I attended the workshop for the people in charge of the individual teams.  I also assisted the team from Centerville, Indiana with their learning about programming."	"It was a different experience for me to teach someone programming seeing as I really have only done it for 3 years.  Sometimes it was difficult to explain things using normal terms seeing as I am a little more technical than middle schoolers who haven't done too much engineering.  I feel though that I did do a decent job at aiding in the process of learning programming as the student seemed to be more knowledgeable at the end."
"0CDE839F656141A181418CC83202C46A"	"Mohling, Nathan"	"mohlinna"	"3/22/2006 12:57:39 PM"	"5 hours"	"I helped at the workshop on Saturday, and I thought about things to do for class on Sunday.  I fully intended to go in on Friday also, but I got held up at work until 6:30."	"I helped out the kids from various schools, and I found that they figured things out really quick!"
"7E5ED883CC154CB1B911DBFF25A375E0"	"Musial, Bryan"	"musialbk"	"3/20/2006 10:24:44 AM"	"7 hours"	"This weekend was the Botball Sponsor Workshop.  I spent time meeting with the XEEE's teams and helping them learn about Botball."	"A lot of my time on Saturday was spent floating between our 1st year teams.  Goshen in particular seems like they will need a lot of help."
"D52BCBB56DFA4FBA9A3D73653BFAE4CE"	"Myung, Seho"	"myungs"	"3/19/2006 1:02:46 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"I went to the botball explanation thing and sat there, and helped out any teams that needed assitance. Also helped pass out the robot kits to their respective teams when the time came. Came back later at around 5 for the social, and met with our botball teams."	""
"DA410735D6044828AD55C5BDCD1B03C0"	"Nicklyn, Nicholas"	"nicklynj"	"3/19/2006 9:52:35 PM"	"2 hours"	"went to bot ball presentation, met and introduced myself to the teams that I was participating with, tried to make myself available for any questions that they had, as well as keep them motivated and working to their full potential"	"did not encounter any major problems, only two of the three bot ball teams that we were assigned to were present, one of which consisted of only two adults who seamed very attentative and did not need any help, the other team consisted of a few high school students who were accompanied by another rose-hulman student who was helping them out since before I arrived.  they were very organized as well, when I first arrived they already had their laptops setup with the required software, and had them connected to the robots and were able to execute simple commands on the GBA-X thing"
"64DFDB87B94A4D7B80E3E5C08207ED2A"	"Osborn, Jason"	"osbornj1"	"3/20/2006 2:39:24 PM"	"3.5 hours"	"general assistance during the workshop on friday (answering programming questions and the like).  Met with the teams we were assigned and exchanged contact info."	"Problems encountered were usually with the programming aspect of the workshop and were easily addressed.  we all got a feel for how experienced our schools were and how much assistance each will be needing or wanting."
"277C942E220F45119B4AF5F88CA5EA75"	"Pethick, Lindsay"	"pethiclc"	"4/3/2006 11:26:21 PM"	"5 hours"	"Worked at the teacher's workshop for the botball instructor's. Met some kids from our school and talked with the different teachers from the area."	"It was fun to meet the people we would be working with. I felt like I was able to learn a little bit from what we were talking about as well. We got in contact with the various groups we were going to be helping, and it was refreshing to know that we were of some assistance."
"1A144D7B401146F280B9B46059374028"	"Phillips, Jacob"	"phillijr"	"3/15/2006 10:18:30 AM"	"2 hours"	"Brainstorming and completing the survey"	""
"3A414323876E452389A2A83533160A94"	"Poehler, Lance"	"poehlelm"	"3/20/2006 11:36:36 AM"	"4 hours"	"Early in the morning on Friday I completed the survey for March 16th.  At 11:00 AM on Friday I went to the seminar.  I also went to the seminar at 4:00 PM and stayed until the very end to meet with one of my schools. "	"Going to the seminars were very exciting.  My group was able to meet with the teacher from Lincoln Middle School from Edwardsville, IL.  She seemed very nervous.  We gave her a few ideas about how to get her students interested and how to begin her first meeting.  We suggested that she download and watch the video that we watched on the first day of class.  We thought that this would be a good way to introduce what they could expect from botball.  We got here contact information and are planning on sending here an email that contains all of our contact information.  We let her know that we are more than willing to help her team move along.  By the time we got done talking to her she seemed a little less uneasy.    I didn’t get a chance to meet our other two teams.  I will be able to meet with Woodrow Wilson on Tuesday and will send out an email to Honey Creek Middle School this week.  Hopefully we will be able to help each of our teams get ready for the competition. "
"0B616146F70C470DAF8AB48F19CF0924"	"Sadeli, Jeffrey"	"sadelij"	"3/19/2006 4:47:22 PM"	"8 hours"	"Botball meeting with the high-school and middle-school teams in F225 computer lab. Helped the students interact with bot, a general help by being presence there. Talked with our high-school/middle-school team and exchange email contacts, made a demo botball for our team (although incomplete, hahaha)."	"Some of the teams are veterans and they know more than I do, which inspired me to do better. The botball workshop raise important challenges such as communicating with team, assigning roles, etc."
"6381E78D9A2844F6B626FC3EDF25F325"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"3/21/2006 8:06:39 PM"	"2 hours"	"Went and helped at the first session"	"At first we didn't have much to do because they were just watching presintations. After that we got to help more when they began to look at the actual hardware. "
"81D02485135C4C0494E207CCA270DB2A"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"3/21/2006 8:09:21 PM"	"3.5 hours"	"Helped out with the sessions"	"At first on friday we didn't have a lot to do because they were watching presintations, later we were able to help when they started using the hardware.  On saturday we were able to help more, but some of the teams seemed to know enough that they didn't need our help. Some of the teams had problems testing stuff or with coding. I was able to help with that the most, but since I didn't have that much experiance with the hardware I wasnt able to help wiht putting stuff together as much. "
"63F9C876DFF94DC0AB69A94FFC62F72F"	"Stachowski, Matthew"	"stachoma"	"3/21/2006 6:20:54 PM"	"6 hours"	"I assisted with various tasks during and after the event."	"No particular insights this weekend."
"B68B4E4B930D4B3488B5F215D15A26D2"	"Sullivan, Johnathan"	"sullivja"	"3/19/2006 1:05:16 PM"	"8 hours"	"All that time was spent either at the session or reading slides in preparation for the session.  I spent about 6 and a half hours at the session on Saturday, and I spent about an hour and a quarter just going over slides on Friday night."	"I worked almost exclusively with one of the rookie middle school teams (Goshen).  I meet two of the other schools, and one school left early.  I found out a lot of valuable information from the teams.  One team (Edwardsville High School) essentially told me that they were not really interested in our help.  That school also told me they were going to help Liberty middle school with the technical portion of their learning.  I believe Goshen will the main team my group is working with, because, since they are new, they are very open to all the team building activities I had talked about.  They also have no one who knows programming so they will need our assistance with that technical portion. The conference went really well.  I learned a significant amount of information through the slide show.   I believe that the Goshen advisor found me very helpful when trying to program a few things, since I have had some experience in C++.  "
"E78B4BF6AC4B445FB394767941FB7199"	"Tharp, Samuel"	"tharpsf"	"3/20/2006 1:20:05 AM"	"9 hours"	"8-11am - Botball 1-5pm  - Botball  .5 hr on Satuday - Lunch with botball teams  .5 hr Sunday - E-mail exchanges"	"Although I am NOT a fan of waking up early on Fridays, I have to say I had a good time at the presentation. I introduced myself to several groups and set myself up in a position where I can help each team to the best of my abilities. A lot of C instruction was handled during the workshop where I got to show off my coding skills. However, it seems a little odd that some of the teachers from the groups were asking questions about radio transmission and electromagnetic interference. Something a little bit out of my knowledge, but I guessed to the best of my knowledge.  I met with the International School of Indiana and I will have to say that I will probably enjoy working with this group the most. They seem like a enjoyable lot of people (although when they break out into French, I can't help but wonder if they are talking about me). Most of their problems stem from lack of programming knowledge so it seems that I will be providing alot of my services to them.  Ladue is one that I'm sure that Meg will enjoy being with. An all girls middle school team that runs on Machintosh computers. The girls seemed to have gotten a good grasp on the programming aspect of robotics, even though their teachers are completely clueless as what to do. I also handed them contact information and got to know a little about them.  De La Salle I am hoping that the team proves to be much more... friendly? than the teacher counterparts. It was obvious by talking with them that they knew quite a bit about programming (or at least the logic following how to handle a top level programming language) and after a few questions deemed upon themselves to figure me as either "stupid" or "unhelpful" in what they were trying to do. I cannot blame them too much, most of my knowledge is in programming, and if they know that, there is little more I can help with other than answers to very generic questions. Once again, I swapped contact information and I wonder if I will ever hear from them again. Definately a bad first impression.  As it turned out, I happened to take my lunch break and the exact same time as the botball workshop did. So again, I introduced myself to some of the other teams, meet up and chatted with the teams that I was assigned with, and went on my merry way.  On Sunday, as chance again would have it, the International team emailed me to make sure they had recieved the right email address. Thus, I responded and at least a good connection with one team has been reached. The least I could ever ask for. "
"E21257BD9DB648D2ABFE7B2D105B9075"	"Thayer, Jordan"	"thayerjt"	"3/19/2006 12:27:52 PM"	"6 hours"	"I attended the Friday session for two hours, the Saturday session for two hours, then I spent the remainder of the time organizing the information from the teams I had met and preparing some exercises and notes that I thought would be helpful for each team."	"Many of the teams were much more prepared than I had expected them to be.  This wasn't a problem per se, but it did catch me off gaurd.  I guess pessimism has its drawbacks.  In general, a little bit of courtesy seems to go a long way.  Call someone sir or mam and they begin to be a lot more personable towards you.  I had also always assumed that I didn't understand that much about programming or perhaps that it was simple because thats how it feels to me.  Turns out, this isn't the case.  Lots of people see programming as an impeneratrable fog which they will never understand, and that I can accidentally come off as some stately lord from the realm of Programmia.  I really need to keep in mind that many of the things I feel are self-evident about programming only seem that way because I've been doing this stuff for years."
"9B9DA23B669A45DF81C1D698EB1F35C7"	"Turpyn, Michael"	"turpynmr"	"3/20/2006 12:58:46 AM"	"3.5 hours"	"Assisted with workshop for botball teams.  Also, met with different teams that our group will be mentoring."	"Many of the students/coaches were having some problems with the coding in Interacctive C.  I spent most of my time answering these kinds of questions."