Monday, October 16, 2006

The lego kids are doing really well. I'm glad because they're enthusiastic. Because we're running out of time (only one more month before competition!) I tried to have the drivetrain kids start building as soon as possible. But I didn't want them touching the legos before they had an idea of what they were building, so I had them brainstorm a little before I gave them the kits.
On a more serious note, we collected the grades today. Overall, we were pretty pleased. However, there were a couple of kids that were in the red zone. Paul and Solomon wrote up a contract for the kids to get signed, and they had to agree to bringing their grades up to an acceptable level within two weeks. Hopefully this won't be a problem and we won't have to cut anyone.
With the competition so soon, I'll need to get the drivetrain kids working really hard. I'm planning on showing them a basic chassis so that they'll have something to base their designs off of, because I saw a few goofing off and just fiddling with the legos. Perhaps I'll go over the goals and what exactly they're supposed to be doing just to clarify things.

- Kyle Norquist