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.

The jiggling robot competition was today, but not in the way that I had originally planned.

First of all, it was supposed to be at 8am, in the performance venue of the Integrated School building. It was only a day or two before that I was informed by the physical facilities head that Bro. Kenneth, for some reason (maybe because the work of the graphics artist sucked anyway) had taken down his exhibit at the central lobby and instead allowed for me to hold my robot competition there.

To accommodate both of them, I just had two demonstrations scheduled.

Unfortunately, some of the groups, who had gotten used to working on their robot out of class time (especially the day before the deadline) and so they had not finished their robot by the previous meeting.

Part of the problem was, they could not work in the lab at that time because of the open lab we had scheduled for the entire afternoon.

They could not be working on their robot at one corner while guests walked beside them.

They even suggested taking out the kits and working in some nearby classroom, but this of course went against the suggested policy of them already working on the choreography as the deadline neared.

Besides, they needed the computers for their programming, and I wasn't going to lend them the installer cd and a transmission tower.

Good for them, the engineering assembly chair said that the kindergarten teachers told him they could not send their students to watch the robot competition at 8am, so that might as well be cancelled.

So that's what I told the students, that they had the 8am class anyway to finish their work, since their "performance time" was 11am.

Two of them were still working up to the deadline of 1030am though, so they get no plus there.

One of them though, gets higher points for ingenious use of motors (only two were allowed per group) in making the arms move as well as the head.

Another group (the one Ephraim is part of) used one motor to make the eyes rotate as well as the tail of their dancing dog.

Session 1735 will highlight this one achievement out of several failures to pass. Class dismissed.