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Behavioral
With this being the week before the culminating competition, teams are working to complete all 3 phases of the project: a fully functioning prosthesis, the design notebook, and a trifold poster. It is much the same as a week ago in that teams are still using different strategies to work thru the design process to evaluate both their concepts and products. The Engineering & Science team has split up for convenience as some are here while others are in Pittsburgh for the Technology Student Association competition. The Lincoln H.S. team continues in their specific roles. Roxborough High discusses and works thru each part of their design, School of the Future makes some adjustments and practices for each skill required, and Edison High improvises to consider probable measurements for their prosthetic mistakenly left at the school.
Affective
The teams have core members who know each other well, have worked together on other projects for MESA and/or school, and generally like their team mates. However as time for the competition draws near, individual differences are introducing new challenges and causing concern for some. The E & S (Carver) team receives news that their partners didn’t fare well in Pittsburgh and decide to discover why on Tuesday and then make changes to their design. Lincoln’s team appears to nearly break up. One member has to leave just before completing the design notebook, the second team mate decides to go play his trumpet at a friend’s house, but the leader stays late, gets help from facilitators and has plans to come back on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Roxborough talks, draws, and laughs their way thru a series of small adjustments before deciding to come back Monday. The School of the Future likes their design and map out how and when to finish the trifold using their design notebook. Edison discovers just what they’ll have to do when they get their arm back, and then the member who declared himself responsible for leaving it decides to get it Monday when told the school may be open for janitors doing “spring cleaning”.
Cognitive
Today as frustration with design flaws, mistakes, and focus among members began to build, the merits of the Robotics Skills Academy were tested. This is a STEM pipeline to college, a seed program. Engineering Teams are our products. How well they can work together in order to demonstrate comprehension of the design process is the ultimate measure of our success. While each instructor present has thoughts on what could have been done differently, we are all excited to see our students work to show what they now know and excited that many are dedicated to winning MESA’s Prosthetic Arm Design Challenge based on this understanding.
With this being the week before the culminating competition, teams are working to complete all 3 phases of the project: a fully functioning prosthesis, the design notebook, and a trifold poster. It is much the same as a week ago in that teams are still using different strategies to work thru the design process to evaluate both their concepts and products. The Engineering & Science team has split up for convenience as some are here while others are in Pittsburgh for the Technology Student Association competition. The Lincoln H.S. team continues in their specific roles. Roxborough High discusses and works thru each part of their design, School of the Future makes some adjustments and practices for each skill required, and Edison High improvises to consider probable measurements for their prosthetic mistakenly left at the school.
Affective
The teams have core members who know each other well, have worked together on other projects for MESA and/or school, and generally like their team mates. However as time for the competition draws near, individual differences are introducing new challenges and causing concern for some. The E & S (Carver) team receives news that their partners didn’t fare well in Pittsburgh and decide to discover why on Tuesday and then make changes to their design. Lincoln’s team appears to nearly break up. One member has to leave just before completing the design notebook, the second team mate decides to go play his trumpet at a friend’s house, but the leader stays late, gets help from facilitators and has plans to come back on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Roxborough talks, draws, and laughs their way thru a series of small adjustments before deciding to come back Monday. The School of the Future likes their design and map out how and when to finish the trifold using their design notebook. Edison discovers just what they’ll have to do when they get their arm back, and then the member who declared himself responsible for leaving it decides to get it Monday when told the school may be open for janitors doing “spring cleaning”.
Cognitive
Today as frustration with design flaws, mistakes, and focus among members began to build, the merits of the Robotics Skills Academy were tested. This is a STEM pipeline to college, a seed program. Engineering Teams are our products. How well they can work together in order to demonstrate comprehension of the design process is the ultimate measure of our success. While each instructor present has thoughts on what could have been done differently, we are all excited to see our students work to show what they now know and excited that many are dedicated to winning MESA’s Prosthetic Arm Design Challenge based on this understanding.