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

Last week I assigned my Introduction to Robotics classes to make robots that would be good for demonstrations to graduating high school students during college recruitment.

As I mentioned in a previous entry, I gave the students a new project for the next two weeks.

Unfortunately, the registrar’s office and the recruitment officers have another appointment at another school tomorrow, and they want to bring the same robots as last week with them, since they saw how much the students responded to them.

So I had the choice of whether or not I should tell my class to stop what they’re doing and rebuild the same easy creations they made the week before, stopping their momentum on the current project. After all, the robots to be used for demonstration had a bigger responsibility this time around because the recruitment isn’t the type where the students are all herded into the auditorium for them to listen to several schools and their pitches.

It is, instead, the type where each participating school has a small booth in a hall or a gymnasium, and it’s up to them how to jazz up their booth to be able to attract the students to get flyers from them and actually apply in the school.

We could have several computer monitors in the booth displaying different aspects of campus life, including the robot competitions the students have, but the recruitment team believes the impact of actually having robots present is different.

Another option I have is just to have a few of the groups stop their construction for now, and just resume them the day after the recruitment. All they have to do is to document their construction so far, and hey would have only lost one meeting.

In exchange I could give them a small bonus for the small delay in completing the current project, and the need to have a more extensive make up session than usual.

There are, already, a few groups who constantly work beyond our class hours on their robots, during the times I have other subjects handled in the lab.

Thankfully they only occupy one table, so they don’t dominate the room rather than my regular students.

More on this drama as it unfolds.

Session 1699 lives for bonuses rather than passing through achievement. Class dismissed.