10/4 Meeting Agenda

This week will be primarily robot design and building.

Summary and Agenda

Announcements to transition to new meeting structure:

* Added a second meeting – Sundays from 3-4:30, starting 10/14
* Added 2 stations for design and building
* Removed the electrical and wheel parts – ask coaches for the box if you need it
* We’ll have a sample schedule ready before the next meeting. All projects need small goals to meet the big one. The group will look it over and change it as necessary.
* We’re buying another robot! Need to establish rules for changing the robot chassis.

New meeting structure:
* Summary of last meeting
* Agenda for this meeting
* Engineering secrets, ~ 10 minutes
* Groups of 2 (or 3) Work at 4 stations, rotating every 15 or 20 minutes
* Each group summarizes their work during this meeting ~ 10 minutes (2 minutes each)
* Remind the group of any commitments

Agenda:

Mrs. Naughton – update on project

Engineering secrets: Learning from others – experts: how to design
Requirements - what is needed, at what cost and by when?
Concept Design - what basic strategy do we have?
Detailed Design - taking the concept ideas to a working robot
- robot (mechanical) design
- smarts (software) design
Testing - Does it do what we thought?
- if not, what can we improve?
- May need to “tweak” concept or details

Group work. Since we have so much information to show this week, we will only swap from robot testing and design one time. Mrs. Emge may also have some programming information at one station instead of design.
1. Joey & Andrew table/computer
2. Michael table/computer
3. Sam & Danny design*
4. Paul & Patrick design*
5. Alex & Nate design *
*Those not designated as table/computer can use 3rd computer for programming or join Mrs. Emge learning about programming

Summary

Commitments ?