Another great EXP class tonight! Thanks @Lauren_Harter
Sorry for the super long post but I really enjoyed our discussion and I wanted to post some of the info here.
TLDR: I discuss the Engineering Notebook that I started with my class today. I talked about how I modified an activity in Activities Discussion and some Other stuff. 
Engineering Notebook:
I will start a new post with info about the engineering notebook we are doing in my class, but I will post a couple pictures of the few pages we have done so far here…
- My class started this notebook today. They are very fresh to robotics/engineering so I am doing a more directed lesson than I normally would. I am having them copy what I do into their own notebooks. I plan to have them start adding their own unique information/data/format in the very new future.
- Used a very simple composition notebook.
- Title Page
- Illustrating how to denote a blank page.
- Table of contents page with a couple extra for room to grow.
- Definitions pages (more of a “school” type thing than an engineering notebook thing) with room to grow as we run into new terms as a class.
- Up and Over game overview page with info from Up and Over | VEX Education
Activities Discussion:
We also had some discussion on activities - VEX EXP Activities | VEX Education
I shared how I used/modified the BaseBot Driver activity to help my students choose the best driver for the my modified Freeze Tag competition.
My modification was to setup buckyballs on the field as an obstacle. The drivers would need to start in one corner and time how long it took them to get to the other corner without hitting any of the balls. They would do this three times and record the data. The next driver in the team would do the same. Then they would change the drive control to something else (i.e. tank/right-arcade/split-arcade) and do the whole process over again. This would allow them to use that data to decide who was the best driver on the team.
Here is the post about the final competition and how I modified it:
Other stuff:
@Nancy_Mejias-Melende here is a picture of the back of an EXP field tile that I was talking about:
You can see how the low-profile nuts fit so that you can drive a screw in from the top.
