Thursday, November 2, 2006

Once again, very little attendance. Next Monday we need to lay out all of the dates that we're going to be meeting and be clear. One team only had one kid there. I don't think the kids realize that the competition is so close.
Well, we mentors tried to do the best with the kids that we had. One team was pretty successful with the nanowire mission. The NXT team (rather, the one girl who came) moved on from the nanotip mission to the buckeyball mission. I had her work on the buckeyball dispenser artifice. The rest of the kids were tweaking their programs for their current missions and moving on to another one. I really hope that next Monday is a lot more productive than today was.
Also, I think that some of the kids aren't getting along. Some personalities are clashing, and I think that its a disciplinary issue on our part. Maybe we've been too relaxed, and the kids are getting too comfortable with us. Some of them are forgetting that we're the mentors, and we're supervising them. I really don't like being mean, but I will if I have to.

- Kyle Norquist