Monday, October 30, 2006

Today we had a couple mentors missing, but that didn't stop the kids from working hard. Drivetrain got right on task, and I'm proud to say that all teams are finished with their drivetrains. Now we're teaching them programming and we're going to have drivetrain begin collaborating with arm to get those robots completed. The NXT kids are at a little disadvantage because there's a new programming language for the NXT that the mentors will have to learn, so I'm planning on taking some time to learn the new program so that I'll be able to answer their questions. Oh, and another thing. I'm planning on showing how an encoder works to some of the kids. I really hate dead reckoning and I really really want one team to for once use some sensors.
Today was mostly stress free, I'm glad to say. The kids worked well, which made my job easy. They also didn't seem to realize that we were missing a couple mentors. I'm happy that this year's kids aren't as roudy as last year's. I'm getting a little anxious now though, because some of my assignments are building up and lego is taking time out of my schedule when I could be taking AP Euro notes or English homework. But I guess we all have to deal with these kinds of things.

- Kyle Norquist