Peninsula School Tech Challenge journal

This journal was composed almost completely on my Sony CLIE (PDA). Most of the time, I wrote the entries during or right after meetings. I then transferred the memos into HTML pages. This journal makes references to some things unique to Peninsula School, like "Going to Science," or the "Science Room." This means the science room at our school during the 1-hour period of free time we get that we can spend at a subject specific classroom. The journal entries are organized by date and grouped into brainstorming, design, and "build, test & modify," the periods outlined in the Insider's Guide.

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Eric Brian Jamie Tevis
Brainstorming:
1/6/03 Our first day
1/7/03 Still getting started
1/8/03 Brainstorming
1/9/03 Getting more serious
1/13/03 I was sick
1/14/03 Just Tevis and Eric Brainstorming
1/16/03 Catch-up, voting on ideas
1/19/03 Just Tevis and Eric Brainstorming
1/25/03 Info Clinic
Restart Brainstorming
1/27/03 First "Official" day, planning
1/30/03 No meeting
2/3/03 Power issues
2/4/03 Present and Compare ideas
2/9/03 First meeting at Brian's
Design:
2/10/03 Close to decision on design
2/15/03 Workshop
2/15/03 Special: Prototyping
2/22/03 More prototyping (with Jamie)
2/24/03 More planning/overhead
2/25/03 Confrontation
1/26/03 More detailed designing
2/27/03 Arguing, not much progress
3/3/03 Planning, decision
3/4/03 Meeting at Brian's
3/11/03 Meeting: Jamie, Tevis, Brian
build, test & modify:
3/12/03 Brian and I broke ground
3/13/03 Team sync-up
3/18/03 Construction, cut out seccond plate
3/21/03 Construction, Brian/Eric
3/25/03 Rounding up Components, weight issue
3/28/03 Emotional blow-up, pressure released
4/3/03 Excuse for nothing happening
4/4/03 Jamie, Eric building backup
4/5/03 Brian, Eric, serious construction
4/7/03 Brian, Eric, some construction
4/8/03 Whole team at Brian's, stagnation
4/13/03 Jamie came over, backup work
4/16/03 Backup work
4/17/03 Finished journal
4/18/03 I built the control box
4/19/03 Jamie, Eric, backup work. Didn't make it to trial
4/21/03 Linda grilled us
4/22/03 Hard work, mostly on clamps
4/23/03 Almost finished clamps
4/24/03 Progress
4/25/03 Last ditch attempt at finishing
4/26/03 More last ditch attempts at finishing. No entry, just photos.