Senior Project, the Holiday

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you over the break with your senior project?


Over the break, as part of my senior project the robotics club and i met periodically to work on our robot for our next qualifying tournament. We met on December 29th for 4 hours and worked with the group on fixing our robot for the next tournament. I also had a meeting with them on January 3rd and we did basically the same things and the most recent meeting was January the 5th where we have a working model of our robot that is a large improvement over our previous robot. We have the Qualifying tournament on January the 11th but i will not be able to attend. Our next meeting to completely finish all of our work as well as the qualifying stuff will be on Wednesday January 8th.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

There were many important things i learned from our meetings together with the team. In reference to my EQ, What is most important in winning a FIRST Tech Challenge, i usually observe the group and participate when i need to during our robotics meetings. In reality, what im learning in this team with our robotics group, are life skills that may extend beyond just high school and this group. Its us as a team, focusing our efforts and our skills and downfalls to complete a project from start to finish. I also analyzed the winning teams at the first competition we had. I saw robots modeled like a miniature moving tank and other robots that were quick and agile. I looked for what made them great and what made them win. What i saw was cooperation from all parts of the team from the fundraisers to the mechanical assembly kids all the way to the programmers. That was important.

3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

I would talk to a mentor or a coach from one of the winning teams. Maybe get their perspective and idea on why they think they won. It would be helpful not only to my senior project but to my team as well.