Report Date: 4/16/2006 12:31:11 PM Tuesday, March 14 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades [AF75B9BDEB6949CAB720A947B9A99AB2] "RESPONSE ID" "NAME" "USERNAME" "DATE SUBMITTED" "FIELD_AEF34E37D8F84E708FFE6085A34EF141" "FIELD_68CCBD8414334BAE91245BE14C859DA7" "FIELD_DBB31145493B43808F465110B9C5A3DA" "B2FBC05E80E0430192C0DF4867BFC6F9" "Achard, Christopher" "achardct" "3/15/2006 10:48:48 PM" "2 hours" "We went to class, and then we spend time trying to work out what we were going to do in class on thursday." "I didn't agree with some of the things that were done in the meeting, but most of the other team thought they were good ideas, so i just went with it to keep the meeting going." "9994E0EFED4C4F0A9C55E248D54E9784" "Achard, Christopher" "achardct" "3/15/2006 10:50:56 PM" "2 hours" "One hour was during normal class time, and the second was after class hours, trying to figure out our activity." "Sometimes you don't agree with the team - but sometimes it's better not to say anything if it's not that important." "0281233F47CE4B6CA15136B09788A384" "Aigner, Thomas" "aignerte" "3/15/2006 8:36:00 PM" "2 hours" "Meeting to finalize group activity, and some botball website surfing" "Came up with a good group activity looking forward to meeting my teams" "DB74CD1B26E84BA3B2EA0C4B899DF257" "Barnard, Curtis" "barnarcp" "3/15/2006 9:34:48 PM" "1 hour" "Got back in contact with my team. Asked what I missed and if there was anything that needed doing." "Getting back in to the swing of things. Trying to figure out exactly where the group is at and what needs to be done. Looking over ANGEL for missed materials etc." "421C9F08E7E842D0ADF7D5C020717699" "Barthel, Paul" "barthep" "3/16/2006 9:36:25 AM" "2.5 hours" "class, arrangements with teammates preparing for the meetings fr/sa/sun" "" "04F82B29DB9E4057A972981AC27CF261" "Blackburn, W. Ryan" "blackbwr" "3/15/2006 11:14:57 PM" "1 hour" "Worked on tema building activity." "I learned that communication is the key to a good team building activity." "8C3283756A3B4F678F50499EE3394E11" "Blankenbaker, Zachariah" "blankezd" "3/15/2006 3:30:14 PM" "3 hours" "I met with the team to discuss team building strategies that we would demonstrate on friday and worked with one of the robots." "No major problems occurred. We decided what we were going to do on friday and I got the robot working on my own, so I was reasonably successful." "5833351130244AD9A00BA95C48BECCAE" "Boyce, Jonathan" "boycejs" "3/17/2006 7:27:09 AM" "1.5 hours" "Our team met during the class period to put some stuff together and see if we could get it to do something with the interactive C, I also read some team e-mails and browsed the website for a while later that day." "- We originally didn't know any of the IC commands, but we went to a website that had documentation on the commands that worked with different sensors. - We got the motors to turn on and off depending on input from various sensors, so we were successful in that regard. - Basically one person was coding, one person was plugging sensors and motors into the controller, and one person was using the controller, everyone else watched and corrected little errors. - We did get some stuff working, and that's interesting because now we have some concrete stuff to show the teachers on Friday. - I actually think it would have been better to split our team into two groups of three and work seperately. That way everyone would have gotten to do some hands-on activities." "96052362B28A4DA6A0691FBD4F998460" "Chvojicek, Benjamin" "chvojibc" "3/14/2006 7:35:38 PM" "2 hours" "Discussed and finalized team building excercises and documented them. " "I spent time conversing on team building excersises because she specializes in these type activities in her field. As a team we brought forth any new ideas and expanded a couple that are attractive to the botball teams. These are documented." "215CBDB41D92401F99C6EA977145ED68" "Collins, Mary" "collinmm" "3/15/2006 10:43:50 AM" "2 hours" "My team and I met today to work on our activity for Thursday. I went back to my room and typed everything up and emailed it out." "The main problems we encountered were how to keep the students interested for the duration and how to not make the students feel bad while doing our team building exercise. My team and I pretty much just tried to figure out something that would keep us interested and then tried to make it fun for younger students. We did a more of a committee where everyone gave out ideas and then we went and trimmed them down. Afterwards, I went back to my room and typed up our idea and then emailed it to everyone in my team." "8E0BAC1FBD8A442FA29D72431499F81A" "Dial, Scott" "dialsa" "3/15/2006 8:31:32 PM" "0 hours" "I was unable attend due to time deadlines with producing a senior thesis poster." "" "000D8C4CE638472BB285F6DB4DC53396" "Dunning, Nicholas" "dunninnb" "3/15/2006 10:50:27 AM" "2.5 hours" "we had a group meeting for one hour and I deveolped a teaming activity for and hour and a half." "our group realized that developing a teaming activity is pretty in depth and is a lot harder than we thought. However it was a good expierence for our team because it helped us to work together." "F1ADB11F323445A991F6BFA358A2A8B6" "Ersson, Krishnamurti" "erssonkk" "3/16/2006 8:20:58 PM" "1 hour" "I could not make it to our team's meeting (due to another meeting), however I reconvened with a team member that evening to see what had transpired. I was also thinking about how to best approach the botball teams we would meet on Friday." "The main problem was that I could not be present at the team meeting itself. In order to gauge how successful I was at gathering how much of the information I missed, I would have to wait until the next class day when we demo our idea for another team. Although I did not work with the entire team, I tried to get information from one team member. From his descriptions it sounded like a short, but productive meeting." "4AEA09435C7B44F0B66B55A3AC37131A" "Garrette, Kimbrell" "garretkj" "3/14/2006 9:15:20 PM" "1 hour" "My team met to learn more about the equipment." "I learned more about how to program the robots and how to use the sensors." "A6D6987B1FD44FF8962065401D1469F3" "Halvorson, Christopher" "halvorcr" "3/15/2006 12:28:18 AM" "0.5 hour" "30 minutes - discuss class with classmates" "Nothing particularly interesting - mostly talked about what might be going on in the class in the future." "DDF27943420E40BB968E68868D1AC694" "Hochstedler, Jason" "hochstja" "3/18/2006 6:40:52 AM" "0 hours" "" "" "7CDEDDC045424430B806E406171274DB" "Hudson, Marshall" "hudsonmc" "3/19/2006 11:38:49 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "C7BF7FC0D4374CB88895917A59575CCC" "Knutson, Erik" "knutsoej" "3/19/2006 4:11:10 PM" "1 hour" "we had a meeting during the scheduled class period to discuss our ideas for team building exercises to present on Thursday." "We discussed our ideas and decided on what we would present as one of our team building exercises. We didn't have very much difficulty deciding, everyone in the group so far has been very reasonable, cooperative, and willing to be openminded and listen to one another." "79D89A77C7594EDFB644F66051562574" "Kornienko, Ivan" "kornieis" "3/15/2006 11:06:19 PM" "3 hours" "Worked both with my team and alone on figuring out how to use legos." "While playing with legos and the different types of sensonrs and motors I was able to build some very simple things trying to understand a little better how these robots will functions." "04CB2AD414C34059AFAF857A586B53A5" "Kowalik, Kenneth" "kowalika" "3/15/2006 9:08:15 PM" "1 hour" "My team met and discussed team-building ideas." "We talked at length about what team-building activities we could actually do, sicne our teams were in Indy and St Louis (so pretty far away)." "203E0E555EF64BD0959E6530A6D8ED24" "Meyer, D. Christopher" "meyerdc" "3/14/2006 3:22:56 PM" "2.5 hours" "We tried out several sensors and got the servo and motors to work on the GBA." "Once again the team did some extreme extreme programming where most fo the group watched while one of I programmed. It was helpful this time for the team to watch as they were able to correct many of my simple mistakes. I will also make available to the rest of the team all of the source code that was developed today." "7A22F9F6F85E4C6C8F6A302D6D079C02" "Mohling, Nathan" "mohlinna" "3/15/2006 1:57:37 PM" "1 hour" "We met and organized our thoughts on team activities to do with the teams." "We just had one person write down the ideas, while all of us threw out and formed ideas." "3D137BAA0467475C95043C2F510DC47E" "Musial, Bryan" "musialbk" "3/16/2006 3:37:03 PM" "2 hours" "Continued reading on botball.org and started to develop the longer activity for sharing technical information." "This phase is going to take a lot more time that I originally thought. I have started to make the specifications for the activity." "559E4529F23C4F98B7806A2981E9D311" "Myung, Seho" "myungs" "3/14/2006 3:37:23 PM" "1.5 hours" "We meet during the normal class time since we didn't have an official class meeting today. I some time afterwards to fill out this form and yesterday's form." "We had the problem that two of our members didn't show up. During our meeting time we decided exactly what we were going to do when we met the teams and what we'd do for the team building activity. Then played around with servos and figured out how to operate them more in detail. Something interesting I learned was that instead of 0 to 360 degrees servos in IC use a range of 0 to 3000." "195C74A61CD749AEB847467418814E3A" "Nicklyn, Nicholas" "nicklynj" "3/15/2006 8:11:00 PM" "2 hours" "met at the WORX as a group (D for Diploma) and discussed all of the possible team building exercises that we all had, got them down on paper and rehersed them so we would be prepared to present them if necessary on thursday or to perform them with our team on friday-saturday" "discussed the best that we decided ideas for the team building exercise, we decided to do a story writing and continuation exercise that would encourage team work cooperationg and be a learning experience in working together and strengthening the team. also practiced our ideas so we would be prepared when the time comes that we would have to perform them." "5C30238A7D7E4904A2A50BA24D1C5226" "Osborn, Jason" "osbornj1" "3/15/2006 10:59:05 PM" "0 hours" "" "" "99274B457C564E629731E76E775DCA92" "Pethick, Lindsay" "pethiclc" "3/15/2006 4:33:12 PM" "3 hours" "Met with team for an hour, worked on programming techniques with them. Managed to familiarize ourselves with the boards that we'll actually be using for the competition. Also fixed the problems we were having with the motors on Friday. Later began to sketch some initial designs on my own for a robot. " "I am very bad with legos. I do okay with the programming for the robots, and building them from a plan seems to go fine, but it's very difficult for me to design or create anything from them on my own. Even drawing up robot designs I find myself at a loss to provide the correct parts for the kind of things I would like to do with the robot. I'd like to do some study on the robot designs of the past, if only to see what kinds of things can be done with the lego parts. " "4A1AAAADE0754CBCA0BEBF41239C6153" "Phillips, Jacob" "phillijr" "3/15/2006 10:20:47 AM" "1.5 hours" "Team meeting and completing the survey" "Our team met to discuss the activity we were going to organize for Thursday." "4659F52A6BC54DB8B0C7DB73DE2234DE" "Poehler, Lance" "poehlelm" "3/15/2006 7:41:49 PM" "2.5 hours" "In the morning, I completed the survey for March 13th. I also started to read up on some of the beyond botball rules and objectives. Later in the day our group meet together to become more acquainted with the botball equipment." "Tuesday was a very successful day. When got in our group, we were able to get a motor, a servo, and even a few sensors to work. We wanted to try out the cameras but weren’t able to locate any in the class room. I know I feel a lot more confident about showing our school groups how to use the equipment than I had before we got together. During our group meeting, we also started discussing beyond botball. We went to www.botball.com so that we could get a better idea on how the beyond botball objectives differ from the school botball rules. I’m pretty sure that everyone in our team now has a good idea of what our goals are. " "40AF1461A9384E7A82C3921EA4F565B5" "Sadeli, Jeffrey" "sadelij" "3/15/2006 5:07:05 PM" "1 hour" "meeting with team to start working on our lego robot" "we played around with different sensors and writing a program for them in interractive c. learnt a lot about the bot hardware layout and some restrictions/abilities of the sensors" "274FB87EA36E43679F8AD0CD64C06054" "Spencer, Andrew" "spenceal" "3/14/2006 7:00:03 PM" "1 hour" "Meeting with group during class hour" "We didn't have mutch of a plan to start off with but everyone contributed ideas. When we thought of an idea we liked we would work on it for a while to see if we could make it good, or untill someone else had a better idea." "8F1FC7253D2B4F9D96D97F3B69C1666D" "Stachowski, Matthew" "stachoma" "3/16/2006 5:07:30 PM" "2 hours" "I met with my group to complete the assignment (i.e. preparing for the demo we have to give in class Thursday)." "I've never been terribly fond of participating in team building exercises (or any activity with a large group of people for that matter). At least the exercise we came up with is somewhat interesting; sufficiently so that demonstrating it to another group on Thursday won't be terrible." "EB9CF152916545EEB467E2096516E28B" "Sullivan, Johnathan" "sullivja" "3/15/2006 7:53:53 PM" "1.5 hours" "Meet with part of the group (The entire group did not show up for the meeting). Worked on programing a servo. Downloaded Interactive C, and disscussed team building activities." "One major problem is that we had a group meeting to discuss everything we had learned, but two of the members did not attend the meeting. We worked on programming a servo, but the servo member was not there. We also wanted to try to work with a camera, but we were unable to obtain one. Our team interactions were greatly hurt by the lack of attendence of two of the members. I sent out an email to begin brainstorming ideas for the long-term technical building activity. I recieved no responses. The team was very happy to successfully have a servo move to the desired position." "335811C21FE14C53A9C13141914DD8A5" "Tharp, Samuel" "tharpsf" "3/15/2006 10:42:04 PM" "2 hours" "1 with team during "class time" 1 researching ideas" "A day late, but I will put it in anyway. Met with the team during "class" on tuesday even though there were no assigned class that day. We talked about how most (if not all) of our teams were out of state or at least very far away. So, we rrestructured our ideas so that they can be easily communicated with a group far, far away. After discussing things in class, we all split up to research good team building exercises that can be easily done with various amounts of people. I came up with several ideas. Ranging from variations on the "Human Knot", "Crossing Styx" to "Blind Man's Chess", ideas were to be had." "5F0839AC89104A0CA7983A6E7901C757" "Thayer, Jordan" "thayerjt" "4/3/2006 12:43:54 PM" "0 hours" "I don't remember what happened this day anymore, my bad." "" "F184BA5682CF47D29030B75280D2EC35" "Turpyn, Michael" "turpynmr" "3/15/2006 12:34:30 AM" "0.5 hour" "Discussed various aspects of the project and the workshop this weekend with another group." "We didn't encounter any problems, although we found it interesting that most of their group was signed up for Friday."