Project "How to Make A Blog" Blog

So, the team has decided to create a blog about how to build a blog, in support of the FLL project.  I think this will be an excellent experience for the team, since it is difficult to tell people how to do something if you can't do it yourself. 

The blog will be located at http://patriotpanthers.blogspot.com/, and account and login information will be sent via e-mail.  In order to build the blog, the team will have to write blog posts about the various topics they learn about along the way.  Some of these topics can be

• How to create a blog for children under the age of 13 (Dhruv)
• How to ask parents for permission/assistance to create a blog (Jonas)
• How to create a website (John)
• How to create an account with a blogging/website service (Chow-Fong)
• How to limit access to the blog -- Who can read?
• How to handle comments -- cyberbullying, who can comment
• How to include pictures in a blog post
• How to include widgets and other features on the blog (like the countdown timer on the team blog)

As the team develops the blog, other topics and ideas for blog posts may present themselves.  We have some volunteers for making some of the posts above, but everyone on the team will be able to contribute a blog post on the topic of their choice.

Ideally, it would be nice to present this to one or two of the Technology classes at school.  Certainly, the team will need a way to present it to the judges at the FLL competition in January.

The Team Project

The team project has evolved into "How to improve our classmates learning to create a blog or website." We discussed the evolving team project at the last meeting, and there were some homework assignments given out that will need to be presented at the next meeting on 12/5:

       Purposes/reasons for creating a blog or website -- Payton, Pranit

       How to ask parents permission for creating a blog -- Jonas, John

       Where to create a blog account and how to limit access -- Chow-Fong

       How to present this to classmates/FLL Competition -- Dhruv (Gabrielle?)

If you have ideas on any area not assigned to you, feel free to offer them to the team.  Please don't feel the need to wait until the next meeting to discuss your ideas, but present them here in the comments.

Team Name, #2

OK, NCS4

At the last team meeting, the recommendation was that the team be named the Patriot Panthers.  Please consider this name, leave comments on it, and be prepared to decide on this the next time we are all together.  Thanks.

Team Name

What do you want for your team name?  The Old Dogz? (Actually, that one is taken.)  The Dapper Dons?  The Seven Samurai?

Post your ideas and comments on the team name below!

Progress Report

 The Team has a new robot design, constructed by Dhruv, which is more compact, more sturdy, and more stable, and should be more maneuverable around the board.  Attached to the front of the robot is a "plow" attachment made by Chow-Fong and Gabrielle, to help with the Changing Conditions mission (15 points) and perhaps other missions as well. 

 

Also, courtesy of Gabrielle, we have a platform model for the Apprenticeship mission, for which the team will get 20 points just for bringing this model to the competition.  Also, with the help of Pranit and Dhruv, Gabrielle was able to use the robot to push the model into the proper position on the game board, bringing another 15 points to the team.  Well Done!

 

FLL World Class Robot

A reminder to the team that this is the current robot design.  I think this is good to get the team started planning missions, but as coach I am concerned that the design is a little too large for easy maneuvering around the board, and there are few points of attachment available for tools to accomplish missions.  If there are any comments or suggestions, feel free to add them here.

Team FLL Project

Team

For the project, we need to address the following mission statement:

We are creating something that allows someone (younger, older, same age, etc.) to learn something better -- easier or more fun or more effective.

The team has already decided that "something" is "how to build a website," but we can still decide if we want to teach everyone or a small group of people.  The project starts with the World Class question:  How could we improve the way someone learns how to build a website?  We still can narrow down the "someone" if you want; also, remember that "improve" can be any or all of "easier, more fun, or more effective."  Feel free to post questions, comments, and discussion on this topic below.

NCS4 World Class Team Site

This is the new Team NCS4 collaboration site.  I hope to use this as an additional means to communicate with the team, and also allow the team to communicate and work with each other in between team meetings.

Check out the timer, and notice that we only have 71 days until our qualifying tournament!