Holiday Mentors Build Season Discussion

December 18, 2006

Today’s Discussion

• Items that needed improvement from last year

• Potential Ideas• Mentor Determined Subteams• Detailed Schedule

• Schedule & Assignments

Improvement Needs

• Some students didn’t get to work on robot items, even though they wanted to

• Not enough mentors to help mentor robot items

• Spent too much time prototyping/building things not used

• Not enough time for programming• Not enough communication• Others?

Students didn’t get to work on robot items

• Create Pre-Determined Subteams• Mentors Pre-Assigned, get to select

students• At least 1 Experienced student• At least 1 CAD student• At least 1 New Student

Not enough mentors to help mentor robot items

• We have many new mentors this year

• Would like to have at least 2 mentors per subteam

• Mentors can switch off or fill in for eachother

Too much time prototyping & building things not used

• Leadership Team Creating Day to Day Schedule

• Will stick to Build Process better (PDR, CDR, milestones, etc)

• Better up front robot design (determine which sensors)

Not enough time for Programming

• Tighter Schedule• More Milestones• More focus on Sensors

Not Enough Communication• Integration Team Meeting (like subteam

leaders meeting)• Twice a week• 1 person from each subteam• Detailed reports & schedule updates

• Leaders will put tasks & upcoming milestones on board

• MS Project Schedule will be updated daily

• Possible thermometers?

Schedule PossibilitiesParallel Track 2-3

Prototypes of Each System

• Allows Room for Design Failure

• Smaller Groups (more hands on)

• Longer to get to Final Design 1/16

Select Robot “Design” 1/9

• Faster time to production

• Get in Pre-select groups faster

• No spending time on things not used

• Highest Potential for Design Failure

Finish Robot by the end of Week 4? Or Week 5?

Other Concerns?

• Any other concerns from last year?• Any new mentor concerns?

Your Schedule

• When ARE you available?• When are you NOT available?• What would you like to be involved

in?