March_10_through_March_12_Friday:"BE3C1058E7914FC187C82CC1B99B7ACE"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/13/2006 4:04:45 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
March_13_Monday:"41FA397F26C44883B7D51B93148AE03A"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/14/2006 5:11:39 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"50 minutes - class 25 minutes - discussion / ideas"	"There were very few problems in class Monday - it actually seemed to go more smoothly than usual.  I was and still am a bit anxious about meeting the team we're going to be working with, but it shouldn't be a problem."
March_14_Tuesday:"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."
March_15_Wednesday:"1052ED0D8FA4427982B6907198CBEDA6"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/16/2006 8:43:30 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"25 minutes - talked to teammate about Robotics."	"No difficulties.  I think our teamwork assignment thing is going to be pretty neat, but I do have concerns about tutoring the coaches/students on Friday."
March_16_Thursday:"B8FFC0453E204FD6BFF847BC2FFD2C29"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/17/2006 7:28:49 AM"	"1 hour"	"50 minutes - class."	"Unfortunately, our team wasn't quite prepared for the teamwork exercise, so we had to discuss it for a few minutes before we were able to do it.  I think it turned out okay, though.  We have it planned out so our team is spread out over the workshop-time Friday, so we should be able to meet with the coaches for our schools individually."
March_17_through_March_19_Friday:"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."
March_20_Monday:"AAA85A895A7444DB91F8BA3AAF156EC0"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/21/2006 6:58:36 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"1 hour - attending class 30 minutes - working on email + talking with teammates"	"I encountered very few problems.  The team decided to appoint 4 of our members as ambassadors to each school, and there weren't any problems with that.  It was fairly easy to do, since each of us four talked somewhat more than others with a particular school, so we were able to divide it up that way naturally."
March_21_Tuesday:"7E7B3C99A47C486485A9C5C8FED30318"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/23/2006 1:48:42 AM"	"1 hour"	"30 min - Talking to teammates 30 min - Composing email to HS team"	"It was actually surprisingly difficult to come up with the right wording for the email, but I might've been thinking through it too much.  There weren't any major roadblocks, but I chose my words pretty carefully."
March_22_Wednesday:"1B0DB2C0FF784A48BA99AB0AB3D70A74"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/23/2006 1:54:36 AM"	"0.5 hour"	"30 minutes - conferring with teammates and composing more emails to HS"	"No major problems, although I did accidentally misspell one of my partners' email addresses.  Whoops."
March_23_Thursday:"AA883C64B5E8496195BB51B59D336FC4"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/24/2006 8:41:11 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"1 hour - class-time 30 minutes - talk with teammates and figure out what the plan is"	"Class was as usual.  We only got in contact with 2 of our 4 teams, but judging from how other teams did, that's not so bad.  We still have to deliver the team-building activity, but I think we still have a bit of time. Our work was done cooperatively, as usual.  It might be a good idea to have a leader eventually (if only for organization), but so far cooperation has gone pretty well."
March_24_through_March_26_Friday:"967500768FBC4E668B35147A4E0C2045"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/29/2006 2:10:21 AM"	"2 hours"	"2 hours - Meeting with team & discussion afterward"	"Our team did pretty well this meeting, but we didn't get much done given the timeframe.  We decided - probably correctly - that two of the teams we are to assist don't want much assistance in teamwork (at least), but we still have two teams we are in contact with.  We broke up the work for the longer exercise and discussed Beyond Botball as well. Although a more regimented breakdown for our team would have made the meeting more efficient, I think it might have a negative impact on our team spirit."
March_27_Monday:"72F831068EFB4FF6AD1E8FFD0077103F"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/30/2006 8:19:18 PM"	"1 hour"	"1h - Class."	"Class went OK.  It didn't seem to have much to it - most of the time we were waiting to get registered on TWiki.  Interactions with teammates went OK, everybody was there for class."
March_28_Tuesday:"06BEB995DE9A4E39A33648B581757F14"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/30/2006 8:21:04 PM"	"1 hour"	".5 hr - chance meeting with 2 teammates, discussion of Beyond Botball .5 hr - think it over, decide that after all a theme robot might not be a great idea."	"Nothing in particular.  We were talking about how neat it would be if we had a Beyond Botball robot that was themed as a pirate ship.  Although it'd be fun to do, it wouldn't be particularly useful.  If we can do it after we get all the functionality, it'll be good."
March_29_Wednesday:"162E0F63D3084B38A537BD941F161E7C"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/30/2006 8:23:36 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"Met with teammate to talk about the projects - 30 min"	"Nothing in particular interesting.  We've been able to talk pretty freely, but there's not really that much to discuss right now."
March_30_Thursday:"9DACEFD467FA4DFFADDFE20B384E0D59"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/31/2006 9:56:12 AM"	"0.5 hour"	".5 hrs - Brief discussion about robotics with teammate.  He is still convinced we should have a pirate ship robot."	"There were no major problems with the discussion - I suppose we were mostly discussing how viable it would be to build a pirate ship - or at least have our robot look like one - despite what its functionality is supposed to be."
March_31_through_April_2_Friday:"219DB7E35B19441CA3C5447E2CA0A99C"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/4/2006 1:49:14 AM"	"0.5 hour"	"1/2 hour - discussed botball team approach with a teammate on the longer assignment."	"We agreed on the basics relatively quickly, and discussed how we could approach the problem.  We decided to discuss it again later after a while."
March_6_Monday:"AAACAB29B2244465A18974971529AD38"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/6/2006 9:07:32 PM"	"2.5 hours"	"50 minutes - Class 30 minutes - Browse through Botball web site 60 minutes - Team meeting for assignments"	"I probably spent longer than I needed browsing the web site, but I was expecting a bit more data. Our team meeting was admittedly pretty inefficient, too - we met online rather than in person and I think we could've done it a good deal faster. Curt ran the online meeting, Mike was absent.  We generally divided up the work & proofread the result.  I learned it's a good idea to check ahead to see what a good meeting time is, because one team member was asleep when the meeting started."
March_7_Tuesday:"B431ED12CDA24F06982B4DE42001C017"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/8/2006 1:34:13 AM"	"1 hour"	"50 minutes - Attended class."	"A minor problem was deciding which team member would learn about which concept / type of equipment.  Since nobody expressed any preference, we simply went by the order in which we were seated. I learned about the cross-bracing - it's relatively simple, and a good way to make a set of blocks structurally sound. The jigsaw-puzzle method of learning concepts was pretty simple and didn't involve too much time - as long as there are enough experts to go around, I think it works well."
March_8_Wednesday:"DC299B9C4769456BB4952975FBA94209"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/9/2006 1:37:27 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
March_9_Thursday:"23CFAEF0CB534038A09571D65FBB40D9"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"3/10/2006 12:31:04 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"50 minutes - class 30 minutes - discussed robotics at lunch"	"No particular problems. The "team exercise" we did was a bit odd, but it actually worked out pretty well.  I was surprised at how it worked to convey a positive spirit. When we finished the jigsaw puzzle exercise, it mostly worked out pretty well.  I got a good feeling for what most every piece of equipment does (except "other sensors" - our team member doing that part was absent).  I think it worked out pretty well."
May_10_Wednesday:"2F76B215341142A1B13A7D73888C5CFF"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/15/2006 2:17:47 PM"	"7 hours"	"2.5 hrs - working on paper, thinking about paper 3.5 hrs - working on Botball robot .5 hrs - discussion with teammates"	"Botball robot work went pretty slowly, but this is to be expected.  Only one team member at a time could work on the robot at a time, so we had some issues with getting work done quickly.  By this time we had a good idea of how much work we'd have to do - unfortunately, it still turned out to be an underestimation."
May_11_Thursday:"B3036D67F7BD4F939797772A298C916E"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/15/2006 2:20:40 PM"	"5 hours"	"1 hr - class 4 hrs - work on botball robot and team discussion"	"Class was the usual, more work on the robot.  We decided during the time afterward that we needed to use two motors, since our 'bot couldn't go over the PVC pipe reliably.  This took a little while to do, since we're not using the LEGO motors (I think all the working ones were taken)."
May_12_through_May_14_Friday:"3FDAEBEBA48644C5B28450245B5B14BC"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/16/2006 9:00:16 PM"	"12 hours"	"Fri, 5 hrs - work on Botball 'bot. Saturday, 5 hrs - travel / work / participate in Botball. Weekend, misc. - think about & work on paper."	"Work on the bot was pretty normal, although one of our teammates couldn't work on it on Friday and wasn't there Saturday for the tournament because he was elsewhere. The Botball event itself went pretty well, although it seemed somewhat unorganized.  I was one of the students who got to get the Beyond Botball baskets only to find that they hadn't been made yet. The tournament was really neat, although Beyond Botball obviously left a bit to be desired.  I can't believe our team won with the showing we had. The HS / MS students, on the other hand, had amazing bots and they also worked pretty well together."
May_15_Monday:"0FD8439A613B47FE9482B69FAF07D9D9"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/19/2006 7:28:15 AM"	"2 hours"	"1 hr - Class 1 hr - Work on paper project"	"We decided for our paper project that we would each do some parts, then trade off & revise / build on each other's sections.  I think it's going to work out pretty well as long as we can finish it in time."
May_16_Tuesday:"67C8517536EA473EAE976410D3B63CC7"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/19/2006 7:29:20 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"1 hr - thinking about paper .5 hr - working on paper"	"My teammate didn't want to meet until Wednesday, so I did a bit more work on my part."
May_17_Wednesday:"1A0973B376B840258F10F97FD4A18187"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/19/2006 7:35:51 AM"	"1.5 hours"	"1.5 hr - think about / work on the paper"	"I think I had just about finished what I was hoping for by the end of the day.  This is around the time I found out I had a lot of other assignments and my actual work in Robotics lagged a bit while I tried to catch up."
May_18_Thursday:"2C157262C4724982B918298F09F18889"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/19/2006 8:21:02 AM"	"2.5 hours"	"1 hr - class 1.5 hr - meeting with partner"	"We had a meeting today to figure out what we were going to do for the rest of the paper.  I got the impression my partner was really busy, which I could certainly see since he's a senior."
May_19_through_May_21_Friday:"E215E6A0BBE4487295F01FF021D1D081"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/19/2006 8:38:30 AM"	"2.5 hours"	"(note the above is an estimate) Worked on the paper, finished up reflections."	"Nothing yet!  Work on the paper is set to finish later on today."
May_1_Monday:"A6E0BD115AFC4AEB8CB0983280DB4E88"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/4/2006 2:00:27 AM"	"2 hours"	"1 hr - in-class time 1 hr - thinking, planning"	"Class time was as usual.  We figured shortly thereafter that we probably couldn't use our initial two-bot plan and decided to work more on Wednesday.  The paper shouldn't be too hard, so I'm not too worried about that.  One of the more interesting things in class was seeing what people wrote down for their password.  It had to have some meaning or another to the writer, because they had to think it up."
May_2_Tuesday:"8302C6C39AC34F49A6E904413555A846"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/4/2006 2:01:41 AM"	"0.5 hour"	".5 hr - discussing design"	"Spent some time talking with a teammate about the design of our 'bot.  We've been thinking about going with our really really basic 'bot, but we're not sure whether the rest of the team will go along with that particular design type."
May_3_Wednesday:"739BB0070BD54070A08A87C3F547F8C7"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/4/2006 2:03:42 AM"	"3.5 hours"	"3.5 hours - Robotics team meeting."	"We spent quite some time in the CS lab implementing our concept.  Some of the time was spent discussing whether or not particular designs would work, some talking about the class, et cetera.  We know we can get *a* design done for the competition, but especially with our motor-obtaining issues it won't be easy to make a good one."
May_4_Thursday:"5443D8D03C1C4CCBBE0026D0664C6118"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/7/2006 11:38:36 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"1 hr - class-time  .5 hr - discussing robotics progress with teammates"	"Class time went pretty well, but I don't think we had nearly enough time to get anything meaningful done on the robot after the organizational part at the beginning. We're getting to the point of simplifying our design - drastically - for the BB competition.  We heard that some teams didn't even have anything working for the competition and we'd like to prevent that from happening to us."
May_5_through_May_7_Friday:"B0999149EDFA4B6C95A1BF7DDF566EA5"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/9/2006 6:59:50 PM"	"5 hours"	"1h - Robotics paper meeting with partner 3.5h - looking up info for paper & thinking about how to organize the paper."	"We decided to get a preliminary outline-ish thing together for each topic before putting it together and starting the more teamwork-intense session of finally writing the paper out and revising it."
May_8_Monday:"068F03C71FE9444BB41E1283CFB6C574"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/9/2006 7:01:19 PM"	"3 hours"	"1h - class meeting. 2h - thinking about what we need to do from here on out & about the class"	"Class went okay, but we still need to have a major meeting Wednesday to get this stuff done.  We're taking a more team-central approach instead of splitting up into pairs, since we need to integrate everything as soon as possible."
May_9_Tuesday:"6941A216A2B04206A289BC3AAE5DA63D"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"5/15/2006 2:14:07 PM"	"2 hours"	"1.5 hrs - work on paper .5 hrs - discussion with teammates"	"Not much to say here about teamwork.  I found out that technical papers about walking robots are pretty hard to find."
April_17_Monday:"05D2890F187C4CE38A33FE247AD3C78D"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/20/2006 4:21:40 PM"	"2 hours"	"1 Hr - Class meeting time 1 Hr - Work on organizing & dividing up the list of IC commands so a teammate and I can work on example code"	"Class time was a brief overview of Extreme Programming, an introduction to the actual building & programming phase of the class, and some free time. There wasn't enough time to actually switch with my partner, though - there was no particularly good stopping point."
April_18_Tuesday:"5E186C5D450E4843A089FD32F6E6DF6D"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/20/2006 4:24:26 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"1.5 hrs - Work on the list of examples & programming commands for our team's botball website"	"This was individual work - mostly because there isn't that much a second person can do when the work is making examples.  There weren't any major problems - it's all fairly straightforward."
April_19_Wednesday:"9CF8B67DAB164A8DA5EB83C53BB7F3B6"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/20/2006 4:27:41 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"1 hr - finish up my portion of the commands for the botball website .5 hr - discuss commands with the teammate I'm working with on the commands page"	"I'm glad it's over, since most of it was 'busy work'.  I hope my examples are easy to understand - although I'm not sure if I'll ever find out.  As long as somebody finds them helpful, I'll be happy."
April_20_Thursday:"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."
April_21_through_April_23_Friday:"5C91F2F0FFE64B268E72A5B73749EF7B"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/25/2006 1:48:22 AM"	"0.5 hour"	"Talked with teammates about robotics assignments, where the project is going, etc."	"No special problems or interesting situations.  XP seems to be going okay, so no complaints there.  I think we're progressing well, but we'll see soon enough."
April_24_Monday:"F700163B7CCB43E2B0F521AFF586108B"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/25/2006 4:13:05 PM"	"1.5 hours"	"1 hr - class time to work on 'bot .5 hr - thinking if there might be a better way to do the  motor connections"	"Well, class time went pretty well and I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do Thursday.  We just need to figure out how to get the motors to attach and work well.  I don't think there's an easy way to do that, which is sort of strange, but I think we'll be able to figure it out regardless.  Hopefully there will be no teammate issues - we haven't had any so far!"
April_25_Tuesday:"A7ECDB4E38354E929AF8FB1F09E6ADF9"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/27/2006 4:29:36 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"Discussing Robotics work with teammates - evidently we're going to have some problems with the motor hooking up to the actual legos."	"We haven't yet addressed the motor problem - that will probably wait until Thursday at least."
April_26_Wednesday:"3ABBBFB307E547A89962E4A7B0B24207"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/27/2006 4:28:13 PM"	"0 hours"	""	""
April_27_Thursday:"EBC8E8D26EA547D89E46A3FB714AEA2E"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/28/2006 7:58:35 AM"	"1 hour"	"Spent one hour in class working on the robot."	"Unfortunately, we didn't get as much done as we would've liked, because apparently there aren't enough (LEGO) motors to go around.  We're doing pretty well otherwise, but there's no way to test - and no way to finish what we've got - without motors that will work."
April_28_through_April_30_Friday:"A6714798B8C14F5A83ECE986E33CD2D3"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/30/2006 9:53:02 PM"	"0.5 hour"	"30 min - brief discussion with teammate about current direction."	"My major concern at this point is that we're simply not going to finish in time for the competition on Saturday.  I think we'll be able to put something together, but the problem is just whether it will be any good at this point, particularly with our motor issues.  A program is no problem - I think the major issue is when we put it all together into the main robot."
April_3_Monday:"D3D41A77B9EA420083267C9512E3DE5B"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/5/2006 9:24:29 PM"	"1 hour"	"1 hour - class"	"We learned in class about Extreme Programming, which was discussed briefly in Software Requirements class Fall quarter.  It'll be interesting to see how it works with the Beyond Botball challenge. We also were introduced to the challenge, which I'd read about before - now we just have to figure out how to "keep it simple" with a competitor to account for."
April_4_Tuesday:"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."
April_5_Wednesday:"440856EE1DE345B89A84A473D737B5FB"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/17/2006 1:05:34 AM"	"0 hours"	""	""
April_6_Thursday:"279F3740056B4A958C4E3A37977065C3"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/17/2006 1:04:52 AM"	"1 hour"	"1 hr - meeting to call Centerville HS."	"We actually only answered one question while I was there - most of the time we were trying to get in contact with them!"
April_7_through_April_16_includes_all_of_spring_break_Friday:"12A0C0B0DD804E21961C6F5546510962"	"Halvorson, Christopher"	"halvorcr"	"4/17/2006 1:03:08 AM"	"1 hour"	"1 hr - thought about what to do for our website."	"Nothing major - thinking about how to lay out the website once we get something good put together."