In today's meeting, we worked on a skit showing the idea for our Project, getting everyone involved. We worked on Jigs to position the robot at the start, and discussed strategies for completing more missions, and the posters.
First, and most importantly: Our Regionals Competition is scheduled for Saturday November 16, 9 AM - 12 PM at Edwards Middle School in South Windsor. So the team can practice their presentations, I’d like to request that everyone get there a half hour early so we can run through each step right before we begin.
This means that we have only one additional meeting, next Saturday, to complete everything. That means that work must be completed in advance, at home, if we are to do well in competition. The team did very well (3rd place) with the robotics at the scrimmage, but we can improve a lot more, and have the Project and Core values to complete as well.
Before next Saturday, we have assignments for each student:
Jakshi and Zoharin will work on completing the Project poster. Here’s a link for writing text, if that helps:
Jakshi and Zoharin, please also assign each person on the team a part of the poster to read (in advance), and be prepared to explain to judges. At the next meeting you will all practice doing the short play we practiced today, then giving your explanation of the poster - each person needs a part to do, and should be prepared to explain that section before coming to team meeting next week. So, Jakshi and Zoharin please email the other team members with an assignment for a bit of the poster to be ready to explain.
Hansini and Sreehan will work on completing the Core Values poster. Here’s a link to the text:
The main tasks to do for this are to:
1) Make a “Core Values” title
2) print photographs of the team members (we still lack photos of Hansini and Zoharin). You can also find photos of our practice sessions here:
which you could print out (color is preferable, to look nice, if you can manage), and paste on the poster. I
3) If you know how, provide judges with QR codes for links to these videos of the team practices:
Making QR codes is easy. Here's one for this blog:
I just went here:
https://www.qr-code-generator.com
And pasted in the URL for the website or file I wanted to share. here's another QR code for the video of you all doing a team-building exercise lifting the lego person up onto the table without speaking:
You can put these QR codes on the poster for Core Values to help judges see your work as a team in action.
4) Paste everything onto the poster so it looks nice
I just went here:
https://www.qr-code-generator.com
And pasted in the URL for the website or file I wanted to share. here's another QR code for the video of you all doing a team-building exercise lifting the lego person up onto the table without speaking:
You can put these QR codes on the poster for Core Values to help judges see your work as a team in action.
4) Paste everything onto the poster so it looks nice
5) Assign each person a bit of the Core values, email everyone with a list of who should be prepared (by the start of next meeting) to present each section. That way we are ready to efficiently practice our presentations.
Miriam and I will work on robot programming, and Jigs. I expect we will work on this from 1 PM to 3 PM tomorrow (Sunday) so if anyone wishes to join us, you are welcome to do so. We will assemble a table listing each robot mission, the program to use, which jig to use, the points it is worth, the robot arm attachment / position, and who will do it.
Miriam and I will also print and bind a color version of our Design Summary:
Again, each student should be ready to tell the judges about one section of this, so please read in advance and be ready to explain:
Miriam: Robot Facts & Fun
Sreehan: Strategy
Hansini: Design Process
Jakshi: Mechanical Design
Zoharin: Programming
You don’t need to memorize the text. Just be ready to say a couple sentences, and answer questions, assuming you have a copy of the report with you.
We also built a spreadsheet summarizing the robot mission components:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MrmQKUcIU-r2Inb44Gym-uOOcvN_6szaK2p1b6aeLQk/edit?usp=sharing
Some more movies of the team
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17WC6hJTScF0kz0_ExmiU05HDmeU9RjI_
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M6_ooK9K0zSGR-4kh4QJG0YfIh00BDgR
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bpb-vR_PgaJo8I4uCTwZjx2kIpswauk-
We also built a spreadsheet summarizing the robot mission components:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MrmQKUcIU-r2Inb44Gym-uOOcvN_6szaK2p1b6aeLQk/edit?usp=sharing
Some more movies of the team
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17WC6hJTScF0kz0_ExmiU05HDmeU9RjI_
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M6_ooK9K0zSGR-4kh4QJG0YfIh00BDgR
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bpb-vR_PgaJo8I4uCTwZjx2kIpswauk-
