Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Kids seemed on task today. I talked with the researchers a little and it looks like the presentations will be pretty good. They just needt to cut down on the amount of text they have on their slide shows and focus on talking more. The RCX teams looked like they did a lot today. One group was trying to get their robot to do three missions in one program. They can get pretty far, but I don't think its very safe. What if the get stuck all the way on the other side of the field? We get penalties every time we have to pick up the robot.
The NXT group had a lot of progress today. James had them doing programming, and they have the fabric tester mission programed, but haven't tested it all the way through, because the NXT ran out of batteries.
Overall, a very productive day. Hopefully tomorrow is the same.
Lego robotics is great, but I'm getting tired of it. I think sometimes that I'd rather go home and do my other homework, but then I remember when I was in lego, and the fun I had when I went to lego Land. I want these kids to have the same opportunity and have as much fun as when I did. I'll try to do everything I can to not only get these kids to win, but enjoy it as much as when I was in their position.

- Kyle Norquist