Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

In the second session of my Introduction to Robotics classes for the third week of the third term, I gave them back their quiz results.

Then I asked them to return them to me, because I told them that from my experience having most of them as students in the past two terms, that they often lose their quizzes and other requirements that I give back, so that they don’t have them anymore when we compute for their pre-final grade.

Maybe, when I offer to give them the scores of their term-long requirements, I would deduct a point or two or ten, just to make them look for the paper if they want to get their actual score to be used in their computation.

So only those who have their original test papers with them or with me can get them from those documents. The rest will have to rely on my intentionally faulty and student-disadvantaged records if they are too lazy to produce their old papers.

There were some groups who were asking if they should still continue with the training missions or if it was okay with them to skip some.

I said it was now up to them. I only wanted them to learn the basics which was why I threatened them with the quiz, but from now on, whatever they learn from the pro challenges or get on the websites will be to their own advantage as extra knowledge when we get to the competitions, and they can make their robots perform some tricks that their classmates cannot.

I already told them what their second challenge will be, which is to have their robot get out of the maze as quickly as possible, given that I will put it down in exactly the same point.

I am planning to ask them to pass their robot on the last day of the competition so that there would be no last minute tinkering, then there will be a public viewing where the whole school, even the grade school and high school, can witness their works.

Their first project, of course, is to test their separate creativities modifying some of the pro-challenge robots listed in the training, coming up with their own proposals of how they are going to make those robots “better” and more spectacular.

Session 961 lost its test paper. Class dismissed.