Meeting+6

=Recap of meeting #6 (Friday 11/5)=

In attendance: Bonnie, Charlotte, Garrett, Noah, Peyton, Brenda, Elijah, Mingjuan and Florian.

The focus of our meeting was to get started on the missions!

First we spoke about the schedule from now til the tournament on Jan 8th 2011. Looking at the calendar and taking various holidays the kids realized that we have only 6 more meetings! The kids' reaction was: we need to meet more often. I agree. Brenda has graciously agreed to take on the challenge to find a time and place that will work for everyone. With that renewed sense of determination the kids broke into teams and started working.

First we had to finish the 3 robots with identical designs (so each team can work independently), Evan and Charlotte were missing pieces to finish, so Brenda was kind enough to go back home and get all the boxes we borrowed from Chapman. With that available they were able to finish.

Everyone started working on the missions they picked from the 6 they had selected: Noah and Garrett selected the heart patch and pace maker. Bonnie and Peyton went for the patent (aka the arm) and eyes Charlotte and Evan chose the white cells and team missions.

In less than 2 hours the teams each developed an attachment designed to solve 2 missions at the same time! Now that's what I call impressive! They then started working on writing down on paper how to program the robots. We will start in Ernest next week and see how the attachment and strategies will work for real!

During snack time, Mingjuan asked the kids to make sure to research the our project topic, the bionic arm. Mingjuan will post a page that recaps the specifics.

See you all next week!