Feb 21 2005
No School Due to President's Day

Feb 22 2005
Mr. Spiegel and Students discussed the time frame of the competition, and what we needed to get done in the amount of time we had.

Groups broke off into sections and started working on their assignments.

Progress:
Construction: Anna organized all the Lego pieces, then the team worked with the Lego pieces, starting building more claws for the robot.

Programming: worked with the construction team.

Web Team: Continuing the Web Page, nearly done.

Communications Team: Complied a schedule for the group to meet out of school time.

Feb 23. 2005
Katherine, Luther, and Victor were at school, working with a new mentor, Mark. They continued constructing the robot with Mark's help. They were very productive. The small group was extremely attentive, and listened to Mark closely.

The rest of the group went to High Tech Fair in Del Mar. At the high tech fair hosted by SDSA, the students had a better understanding of what they needed to do through the displays at the fair.

Feb 24, 2005
Team made good progress today. Mr. Spiegel sat down with us, and discussed that we did not have much time left until the competition. We made a time frame, and made meeting dates so that we could work with our Raytheon mentors who were willing to help us.

PROGRESS:
CONSTRUCTION TEAM - worked on the robot, continued building it.

PROGRAMMING TEAM - researched, and tested out the pieces, and how they would program it.

WEB TEAM - Anna uploaded the pictures, continued finishing the website, and blogged for the week.

CONSTRUCTION TEAM - conversed to see how they would be able to reach the community better.


Rough Time Frame:
Everyone break off into little sects and work on various parts of the Robot. Then we will combine it.
Finish the Robot by March. 4 2005

The programming team starts working with the robot from March 4 - 11 2005.

From March 11 - 18, the whole team tests out the robot, and fix any bugs.

March 19, Day of the Competition.

*New GOAL* get the robot to move (since this is our first year. We don't expect to win, but moving it would be a great start for next year.)

Feb 25, 2005

Advisory

Jeremie Santos, Ms. McHugh, Arthur Torres came in and worked with the group. They discussed the new and improved story board. New Game strategy that would help make things easier for the groups.

Programming team HOMEWORK: Learn tutorials about C - base, C++, Java and C #. Look for how to create Loops, Arrays, Basics, call functions.

Construction team goal: Finish robot by WEDNESDAY!!! MARCH 2 2005!

Story board people: List what we need to do (ex: Open close claws, motor moves, moves 5 inches etc.)

Need: Computer access JUST for programming.
 

LUNCH
Arthur, Jeremie, and Ms. McHugh stayed with John and Anna to discuss where we were, and what we needed to do.

what we need to do: Stagger time, set goals to push ourselves

FINISH CONSTRUCTION BOT BY
Wednesday march 2, 2005

Discussion on :
-Servos, How do they work and how we can use them.
-Sensors - what sensors do we have? how can they be useful to us?
-Programming - What do we program? How can we learn to program in a short time? what do we need to learn?
- Photo sensors - how that works and how it effects our robot.

Per 3
Mentor, Arthur Torres along with students John G, Anna, Katherine, German and Victor stayed to worked on the robot, and revise the strategic methods, redo the story board - in stages, What the robot needs to do.

- Arthur German, Victor, John G and Katherine talked about construction of the robot    
- Height
- where game boy will go
- using pistons
- recharging handy board
- sweeper
- different sensors
     camera extensions.


-Anna worked on the webpage and blogs