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 my Introduction to Robotics class, I gave them the list of requirements that should be part of their CD to be submitted at the end of each project: the videos of the robot working during the trial and during the competition itself, the step by step construction of the robot, just like those shown in the training missions, the program file of the robot itself, and the poster they made which I already assume would include the names of all the creators.

For the step by step construction, it is recommended is that after the competition they detach their parts piece by piece and take pictures of each, then renumber them when they place it in the CD or the slide presentation file.

So far, only one of the groups has put up their invitation posters as of the deadline last Friday.

I also told them that as of this meeting they should already be collaborating with the other groups in seeing that all of their touch sensors and extensors are aligned. Apparently, the two and a half weeks given for this project is long compared to how fast they could actually build it. This will not be true for the more complicated succeeding ones, with branched tasks.

@@ In my Energy Conversion lecture class, their exam is this afternoon, with students already asking earlier about whether there will be an objective part to the exam, just like in the last lecture subject of most of them under me, Materials Science.

Again for the second assignment, it was only the regulars who submitted, for which it means they will have to write their third assignment (which they begged of the last supposed seatwork) to be extended in the submission.

So that means just by seeing who will be submitting the third assignment in their notebooks (if at all) then I will know who didn’t make the second homework.

@@ Because of the round of peer evaluation observations last week, I made it a point to have a whole period lecture in Computer Circuit Fundamentals last Friday.

We discussed multiple branch programming and the multiply statement, as well as having a recitation at the start, where, even though several of the students showed that they understood the concepts of all the topics before, that may have changed again with the new topic of eight to sixteen bit multiplication, and the more complex one sixteen to thirty two bit operations.

Session 1673 is still a complacent average achiever despite previous stumbling. Class dismissed.