Take team member attendance: All

Agenda/Meeting Minutes for Project Meet:

  •  Call note taker for the day: Audrey
  •  Everyone share summer animal research see if anything we may find useful for this year.
    •  –everyone shared
  •  Review action item from last meet: Everyone share his/her ideas/preliminary research on any identified problem, how and where to research and which community to share  (following wl be updated)
    • –Max: Problem- Bats need to find shelter faster  Resources- websites Solution- Make bat boxes  Community-  Q.D.
    •         – Problem – Birds’ food is declining (bugs are being killed)   Resources- online, books, magazines
    • –Anthony: Problem-  Pigs don’t have a good place to live, and when they are ready for slaughter they are in bad conditions   Resources- books, peta.org, animal shelter   Community- ?
    • –Austin: Problem- When humans and cows interact, cows get stressed out and get sick  Resources- websites  Community- ?
    •          – Problem – Bobcats are adapting to human environment  Resources- plano.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=777  Community- N/A
    • –Derek: Problem- People force earth worms into a bins Research- websites Community- ?
    •          – Problem – worms on lawns (the worm poop helps weeds grow)  Resources- Oxford website, landscapejuice.com  Community- soccer players
    • –Audrey: Problem- When people use pesticides on their plants it harms the bees Resources- sos-bees.org/causes/, book Community- pesticide companies
    • –Ray: Problems- Some people develop diseases, and they are using monkeys as a test subject. They are also scaring monkeys.  Research- websites Community- Online with animal lovers
    •           – Problem – wild animals in backyards  Resources- Humane Society, wildlifeanimalcontrol.com, Critter Control   Community- neighborhood
    • –Melody: Problem- Some people don’t like interacting with dogs  Resources- Online and books  Community: ?
    •           – Problem – rabbits are eating plants but it’s hard to keep them away  Resources- planogardenclub.org  Community- gardeners
  • Members who’s work mostly met requirement: Anthony, Austin and Ray.
  •  Discuss trying to narrow down to 2 choices and possible research strategy.
    •  –Melody, Audrey, and Ray – Backyard Animal interaction
    • –Derek, Austin, Anthony, Max – Animal Rights, choose a relevant topic.
  •  Rules for good team behavior or rules that represent good core values
    •  –run out of time, next wk
  • Timeline review
    • maybe 1-2 wk behind schedule, but should still fit overall schedule
    • 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:

  1. Lawyer to report any rule updates
  2. Review and discuss the strategy for each mission based on the strategy document
  3. Summarize the chassis requirements
  4. Assign research action for the mission strategy/mechanism

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Project Action Items:

  1. Anthony – Further identify one or two relevant topics (under the Animal Rights topic since no readily available “pig” related community to research on), use Peta.org, coach mentioned a few related topics which can be chosen from and lead the Animal rights group to do the 1st round research, need to visit/tele-interview at least one contact and line up all research resource and sharing communities. (Research again using at least three different resources and write them down,  also you need one real resource that isn’t online, and we can interact with such as organization, or real professionals, or parties are interested in this topic. Please review Project Challenge  again, especially p10-12!)
  2. Ray — lead the Backyard Animal group to do the 1st round research, same like the above requirement.
  3. Find two rules for good team behavior or rules that represent good core values, and consider consequence for misbehaving on team meetings.

Robotic Action Items:

  1. Austin and Derek will build the chassis with 4 big motors and sensors
  2. Use motor control to test your attachments
  3. Austin will draw the final chassis design from the team meeting, everyone should add the mission reference for the motor
  4. Anthony copy master program from old project

Minionbots Meeting 3 – 9/17/2016

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