April 25, 2011
The LEGO robotics project challenged us as a group to regularly construct a workable robot that could complete the assigned tasks at hand. The actual tasks were challenging and diverse. The group typically had one week to 1) Build the Robot 2) Program the robot and 3) record and document group activity in form of a blog.
The group dynamics at times proved to be incredibly successful and other times proved to be very destructive. Our group was incredibly diverse with skills and academic levels. We struggled to define tasks early on and it led to difficulties in later weeks. Group members spent 15+ hrs on programming for a single challenge and therefore wished not to work on the programming the following week. As a group we could not recognize the difficulties within our group until the project started to fail.
As a group we failed in one task and barely completed two others. Although at the end of the four weeks the entirety of the group members felt quite accomplished the amount of effort spent my all of the group members was not equal.
Overall, the project led to mostly frustration and in the end it was difficult for us as a group to address the direct purpose of the LEGO Robotics Project. In the future, we would have appreciated more of a structure to the assignments that would allow us to better analyze the projects at hand. It would allow us to get less frustrated and better focus on the purpose.
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