Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The kids worked today. Right now, they should be working out programming bugs and working on who's going to be setting up the robot. However, I found a lot of kids just playing with legos. The legos really shouldn't even be out at this point any more. I want the kids to be totally done tomorrow, but I don't see this happening. Already a few kids are realizing that they're running out of time, and so they're thinking about coming in early on Saturday so that they can tune up their robots.
A lot of the kids keep running their programs and then after maybe twenty runs find that it doesn't do the task anymore, so they go and adjust the program. And then they run that program for awhile, and then the same thing keeps happening. I don't know yet if they realize that they're draining the batteries. Come competition, when we change out the batteries for fresh ones, I think they'll be in for a bad surprise. We'll ahve to talk about that tomorrow.

- Kyle Norquist