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Agenda/Meeting Minutes for Project Meet:
- 6:15-7pm knock doors in the community to survey to see which topic the team will settle on.
- Call note taker for the day: Ray
- Review survey, deciding on the final topic:
- ====Team Decided on Backyard Animals because there weren’t any stray dogs seen in this community per today survey
- Two topics for reference:
- —-1. Melody, Audrey, and Ray – Backyard Animal interaction
- Backyard Animal interaction- Problem-wild animals appear in the backyard. Could eat garden. Resources- wildlifeanimalcontrol.com, crittercontrol.com, community (where you live), animal shelter, plano.gov
- 2. –Derek, Austin, Anthony, Max – Animal Rights, stray dog? choose a relevant topic.
- Animal Rights problem-Lots of stray dogs. People get attacked. Stray dogs get gassed. Resources- peta.org, news, have to go to Dallas to find women that got bit by a stray dog?? Solution- Educate people how to take care of a dog. Inform public to adopt a new dog, not buy a puppy. Make them <3 you. Report stray dogs.
- Discuss the possible research and strategy for the topic chosen and assigning responsibilities:
- — Identify the problem – Melody and Ray (Each Write down the 10 people you knocked and asked, their address, possibly their number and/or email. Have they met wild animals. What kind of animals? Do they know how to handle them? What did they do? Are they interested in being notified about what we find.
- — Research 1 wildlifeanimalcontrol.com — Audrey (Animals for each season locally, what is the solution)
- — Research 2 crittercontrol.com — Anthony (Animals for each season locally, what is the solution)
- — Research 3 humanesociety.org — Max (Animals for each season locally, what is the solution)
- — Research 4 Animal Shelter — Derek (Contact local animal shelter and ask what animals they have, do they have any solution for the local wild animals, would they be interested in gathering data, how they helped the local people)
- — Research 5 Find a Pest Control (Specialists nearby) — Austin Ask them what they do with wild animals (Bunnies, Bobcats, Rats, Snake, Animals for each season locally, what is the solution)
- — Solution 1 Everyone come up with a solution after their task
- — Solution 2
- — Solution 3
- — sharing community 1
- — sharing community 2
- — sharing community 3
- Study Core Values and judging criteria
- Review Action Item on The Core Values Poster — Everyone needs to list three points under their section, improve the points
- Rules for good team behavior or rules that represent good core values:
- Listen to the speaker/coach
- pay attention
- don’t start a meaningless conversation
- don’t make noise
- ask for permission before leaving the table
- no talking while speaker is talking
- respect team members
- don’t do weird or stupid things
- don’t be distracting
- do your assigned work to the expectations
- do 5 pushups if failed to meet above
- Timeline review
- should move into research phase now, but since kids can’t decide on the topic and the common time, we wl delay 1 more wk .
- two weeks to identify the problem, two weeks to research the problem, two weeks to share with the community, and two weeks to do team building and core values.
Agenda for Robot Missions:
- Decide on the scrimmage and qualifier
- Review team shirt and costume and collect shirt size
- Check action item status
- Lawyer to report any rule updates
- Check the tips collected Sea Monsters’s website: http://www.masteringlegorobot.com
- Check the chassis motor assignment for the missions
- Check the identified myblocks specification
- Coach explains how to document your test runs in your notebook during the build session
- Each pair demonstrate the mission work so far and other team members provide the feedback (identify the myblocks needed for navigation)
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Project Action Items: (To Be Updated)
- Everyone review page 4-5 for core values poster and come up with ideas —— review again, Make sure we make a very great impression on the judges since they only see us them once. ——-Austin Find and post Last year’s Judging Sheet for core value and project and everyone study
- discovery-Audrey, integration-Derek, inclusion- Max, team name-Austin, Anthony-Cooperation, Ray- other core values judging categories, Melody already proactively did a draft, great! ——-Everyone needs to list three points under their section, improve the points——–Austin: Write a 1-minute song——–Ray: Come up with better Team Spirit and Respect examples
- Research Project
- — Identify the problem – Melody and Ray (Each Write down the 10 people you knocked and asked, their address, possibly their number and/or email. Have they met wild animals. What kind of animals? Do they know how to handle them? What did they do? Are they interested in being notified about what we find.
- — Research 1 wildlifeanimalcontrol.com — Audrey (Animals for each season locally, what is the solution)
- — Research 2 crittercontrol.com — Anthony (Animals for each season locally, what is the solution)
- — Research 3 humanesociety.org — Max (Animals for each season locally, what is the solution)
- — Research 4 Animal Shelter — Derek (Contact local animal shelter and ask what animals they have, do they have any solution for the local wild animals, would they be interested in gathering data, how they helped the local people)
- — Research 5 Find a Pest Control (Specialists nearby) — Austin Ask them what they do with wild animals (Bunnies, Bobcats, Rats, Snake, Animals for each season locally, what is the solution)
- — Solution 1 Everyone come up with a solution after their task
Robotic Action Items:
- Anthony update the myBlocks spec
- Everybody finish up the tips from the Sea Monsters
- Everybody update the chassis layout for motor assignment
- Derek needs to finish pit crew check
- Work on the attachments with the motor transformation
- Anthony and Derek to fill in behavior and control of special programs tab of design journal doc
Agenda/Meeting minutes Minionbots Meeting 5 – 10/1