Report Date: 5/9/2006 9:51:12 AM
Thursday, April 20 -- What work did you do for this class on this day? Grades  [22D5694813CF4B1E97C779E664FECF05]
"RESPONSE ID"	"NAME"	"USERNAME"	"DATE SUBMITTED"	"FIELD_EC1A8AA066E5447889FCD05E7CC8ED3A"	"FIELD_C15D0E6F4F074841A76DAF9BC1778AFA"	"FIELD_832B982F9311447F9DEDA49EED996107"
"144BE2C9C2AF40D0AD354E7B9F9C80A0"	"Achard, Christopher"	"achardct"	"4/24/2006 1:21:51 AM"	"2.5 hours"	"Class, then we worked on the robot in our room.  We still need a way to launch the balls."	"Need an Sully to help our team.  He's an ME, right?"
"CEC177EC2D4941DF9D2DBD1DA02B3A79"	"Aigner, Thomas"	"aignerte"	"4/27/2006 10:20:50 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"class"	"didn't get a lot done due to the fact that legos were hard to get to and we couldn't choose a strategy"
"53D5052284664E17905E560FC06685E3"	"Barthel, Paul"	"barthep"	"5/1/2006 12:30:45 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"I totally apologize for falling behind filling out these surveys, lately. I hope you noticed that I did that very accurately, before. I will put in an average of 2.5 hours per day/weekend, which is the minimum of time I actually spend, including class, class assignments, working with our Botball teams, team communications, several team meetings for Beyond Botball, individual work/thought on Beyond Botball, and possibly other things which I can't think of anymore, right now. I hope that is acceptable for you. Thanks."	""
"BAB1EC79D532415493D6655169860EAD"	"Blackburn, W. Ryan"	"blackbwr"	"4/23/2006 3:31:41 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"Class items and worked a little on the bot."	"It takes some time to learn how to build a bot, it also helps when there are more than one person. This is a good part of XP."
"EF3434789B8744D8AC21317224734E73"	"Boyce, Jonathan"	"boycejs"	"4/24/2006 8:25:09 AM"	"3 hours"	"Did some planning for the distraction robot, and working on building parts in the lab during/before our class."	"- Sometimes it is hard to put the legos individually on the main piece, so I broke what I was building down into components. - I'll get feedback on friday when we try to put the stuff together. - We did some extreme programming/individual work. - Breaking stuff down into components is a good way to solve problems, it's interesting because it applies to just about any problem. - The method of breaking the problem down is something that I'll probably use all the time."
"C6EBEA627B5745308B31B9517688FE83"	"Collins, Mary"	"collinmm"	"4/24/2006 11:35:28 PM"	"1 hour"	" Did Xtreme programming in class!"	"It was different, and with only 3 people there, we couldn't really do the XP stuff the right way."
"8F3419DA1C3244D091CEB2E3BD355F1A"	"Ersson, Krishnamurti"	"erssonkk"	"4/20/2006 11:35:43 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"Today in class we split up into our XP pairs and tried our hand at getting a good start on our project. I also spent time in the evening writing responses to this week's surveys, which had just been posted."	"My first reaction when we were informed that we would be using the XP paradigm to do most of our work for Beyond Botball was that it was going to take some getting used to. Today I certainly found this to be the case. At first it seemed like we weren't getting a whole lot done. Our team split into three groups of two and there was a lot of interaction between the groups since we didn't really have clear goals.  I think a lot of the problems today stemmed from not having direction within the pairs (or teams as a whole). I believe that this will change as the competition progresses and we discover more specific tasks that need to be done. Fow now though, it seems like XP is still a little awkward, but it looks to have a lot of potential."
"F8E4D9108912417DA966D3BFDE0148AE"	"Garrette, Kimbrell"	"garretkj"	"4/27/2006 6:07:02 PM"	"1 hour"	"I went to class.  We began to assemble our two robots."	"It was hard because we all wanted to assemble the robots our own way."
"4FC9F90189254DCCB8B0F23254B13093"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/21/2006 7:47:56 AM"	"1 hour"	"1 hr - class time."	"We worked more on the Extreme Programming approach, and today we had enough time to switch partners.  Although it doesn't seem quite as fast as splitting up all the duties individually, the pair approach keeps down issues with the code / structure of what you're working with, and it would be harder to actually split the duties much more, so it seems to work for the tasks we're doing now."
"2CCB6F30927F411483E6DE867382C731"	"Hochstedler, Jason"	"hochstja"	"4/27/2006 7:52:52 AM"	"1 hour"	"went to class"	""
"694759857159456780A7F53BEE078B1A"	"Knutson, Erik"	"knutsoej"	"4/23/2006 4:27:28 PM"	"1 hour"	"Class time work.  We discussed ideas for what to base our robot design around."	"After breaking up we ended up overlapping our discussions because we didn't have a clear sense of how to break up the discussion initially."
"72FB2D8A26A64F709F47D59941B52030"	"Kornienko, Ivan"	"kornieis"	"4/24/2006 1:15:00 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"in class work on the robot final decisions on who will be going to the school"	"We first worked in our groups for the class project to accomplish the planning and design of our robot. Furthermore it is looking like seho and jason are the only two people that will be able to make it to the school this saturday."
"79302A671D4444B68BBC45768F3878E1"	"Kowalik, Kenneth"	"kowalika"	"4/20/2006 9:27:33 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"Filled out a few of these daily reflections, and also looked over the St Louis email we got."	"Unfortunately, the St Louis email we got planned for everyone that wanted to to go on the trip on the 29th of this month, when I already have something I've planned to do that day that's important, but I could still get out of it.  Now I guess I might have to make a choice..."
"86009295382B49B8B3EEED9AB72F0027"	"Meyer, D. Christopher"	"meyerdc"	"4/23/2006 8:44:56 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"The class met today and worked on the bot."	"The team decided to split up into two sub-groups, one for the scorer and one for the distractor.  This was good as certain team members did not particpate at all or make any attempt to.  By splitting the team it also makes everyone feel like they have a part."
"144E10EEE76F4869B0807A68E53A101F"	"Musial, Bryan"	"musialbk"	"4/24/2006 1:37:47 AM"	"2.5 hours"	"Class session, messed with lego pneumatic devices.  Although we can build a large volue of pressure, the actual pressure is quite low."	"Lego's built in materials just arent going to be powerful enough to throw balls across the field."
"0F638E24628741E4AD422F0F9F7ED2B0"	"Myung, Seho"	"myungs"	"4/20/2006 7:26:00 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"Went to class. Filled out these things. Finalized trip to Hamilton SE and gathered approripate materials for it."	""
"25314BBD95254845BF3646B345A44E7D"	"Nicklyn, Nicholas"	"nicklynj"	"4/20/2006 11:13:58 PM"	"1 hour"	"class, applied xtreme programming concepts to robot creation and development"	"firmly placed our group into subdivided sections to handle robot creation and development, began considering my own requirements as a member of the group for the final robot"
"0DFED215967C4641B43E45E6E944B98B"	"Osborn, Jason"	"osbornj1"	"4/22/2006 4:24:26 PM"	"1 hour"	"continued working on our bots."	"brainstormed some more on how to get our particular bot over the pvc pipe, then started some prototype building."
"7A11A78CBE23493CA97E31A878FA4DBC"	"Phillips, Jacob"	"phillijr"	"4/24/2006 9:58:47 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"We met for class today and did some Extreme Engineering. "	"Extreme programming seemed like a good idea, but I'm not sure if i'm sold on extreme engineering. It may be better to have everyone involved in the actual engineering."
"0AC05D8442924D11BB747D3A8E6D282D"	"Poehler, Lance"	"poehlelm"	"4/21/2006 11:15:15 AM"	"4 hours"	"On Thursday during class our group worked on furthering the design of our robot.  After class I stayed in the lab so that I could continue building one of our robots.  Later on Monday, I received an email from Dr. Mutchler regarding the surveys.  I then completed the surveys for April 17th, 18th, and 19th."	"I really enjoyed working on our beyond botball robot on Thursday.  I think our team is working really well.  We have been able to break into groups to achieve many small tasks.  We have decided to work on two small robots that will be able to work together to achieve our goals.  We haven’t started on the software yet.  I think it is too early to begin writing the software for the robot.  We will probably not start with the software until we have completed building more of the of the robot body.  During class on Thursday we decided to meet together on Friday to try further our beyond botball robot."
"960A64CA13F6413A947B2D94B37EE84C"	"Sadeli, Jeffrey"	"sadelij"	"4/24/2006 12:06:50 PM"	"1 hour"	"in class"	"feedback on design from professor chenoweth, continue the "hacking" on legobot."
"C3C184A8E10D4F049966B68FD4C7040B"	"Spencer, Andrew"	"spenceal"	"5/6/2006 9:43:43 PM"	"1 hour"	"class"	"I'm not sure what all we did. I know we didnt get a lot acomplished though. We're going to have to start being more focused on getting results. One of the problems we are having is that we talking about stuff a lot and dont get a lot of stuff done. We've had a lot of whole group time as well. Some of this is important at the early stages because we need to decide on strategys, but it takes a lot of time and doesnt produce much."
"4288653EFB9A4A209D705214ACA0C500"	"Sullivan, Johnathan"	"sullivja"	"4/21/2006 1:53:21 PM"	"2 hours"	"I attended class during which Jason and I worked on the robot that will set up the walls to block the opponent.  Then I worked on email corrispondance with Hamilton Southeast."	"I was able to confirm the trip to Indianapolis, which was very comforting, since I had not heard from them in a while.  The robot is going rather slow, but that is because we are still largely in the planning stage."
"6AB55E9E09DC454BAF298FAEB5E5F61B"	"Tharp, Samuel"	"tharpsf"	"4/27/2006 11:50:15 PM"	"2 hours"	"1 hr in class  1 hr outside testing"	"Basic testing of what we can and cannot do with the robot. Nothing too terribly exciting. Got word of our paper that is rapidly approaching. Little excitment with that. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to focus on, but I am really interested in is how they have created robots that can stand upright and how they stay upright with the gyros. Think I might focus in on that. Toyota and the US Military has done a bunch of stuff dealing witht that.  The time spent out of class was to figure out what pieces we need and how to put it all together. I got designated "box" developer that will hold all the toxic balls as well as how the grappler arm may attach to it."
"81B1E49AD41A4134B04B1346C747F86D"	"Thayer, Jordan"	"thayerjt"	"5/1/2006 12:44:28 PM"	"2 hours"	"I slept through class, but then ended up working on the offensive robot design."	""
"650BF49FE0374577980D50125F818CCB"	"Turpyn, Michael"	"turpynmr"	"4/26/2006 12:53:32 AM"	"2 hours"	"We spent more class time working on the project, and began construction on the main porition of one of our Bots for Beyond Botball."	"We decided on our design, and began building the large bot that would carry the small bot as well as the blockade used against the other bots.  I paired off with another group member, and we took turns working on the design while the spectator watched and made suggestions/fetched additional materials.  Afterwards we spent additional time finializing our design, then I met with a member of the team who was working on the programming to discuss what progress he made made with regards to the project, and shared some of the work I'd been working on."