Transcript Duties of Team Members

Duties of Team Members
Designer
Engineer
Writer
Camera-Person
Designer
• Leadership Issues
– Communication
• Establish roles of other members of team
• Lead discussions to solve problems
• Incorporate best ideas of every member of team
– Project Design
• Establish limits (with input from team) of project
• Establish problems to be solved by
– Engineers
– Writer
– Camera Person
Designer Page 2
• Set deadlines with input from team
• Establish test parameters for project
– Skills necessary
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Understanding of math and science needed
Ability to make decisions
Ability to get others to arrive at a consensus
Ability to reduce to project to a set of clear and concise
steps
• Ability to help maintain a creative, exciting, and focused
atmosphere of the group
Engineer(s)
• Leadership Issues
– Communication
• Explain to other members of team the issues of
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Computer programming
Mathematics
Materials choices
Limitations of the above
• Work with other members of team to arrive at a design
that is doable according to the limits of programs and
materials
Engineers Page 2
– Project issues
• Establish a list of problems
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What components to use? (Materials)
What is the input of the project?
What is the outcome?
What tools (programs, motors, cameras, sensing devices) are
available to solve problem?
• Working with input from other members of team, help
establish a sequence of procedures
• Input information into programs to control object
• Construct with help of other team members the object
Engineers Page 3
– Skills necessary
• Sufficient mathematics to understand what is needed
to program robot
• Sufficient computer skills to create a program to control
robot
• Communication skills to work with other members of
team
• Ability to visualize final product
• Willingness to create a step-by-step approach to
problem solving
• Ability to SOLVE PROBLEMS
Writer
• Leadership Issues
– Organization of multiple points of view into a
coherent picture (very important)
– Observation of all facets of a project
– Project issues
• Your words give meaning and focus to project
• Your organization will aid Designer and Engineers to
communicate with each other
• Your questions should ground project and help give it
focus
Writer Page 2
– Project Duties
• Take notes of all meetings of the team
• Be a word smith to find language that eases points of
conflict between other members of the team
• Establish deadlines for the final presentation
• Establish the limits of the final presentation
• Working with the camera person from the first minutes,
establish sufficient documentation for the final
presentation
Writer Page 3
– Skills
• Ability to observe accurately
• Ability to record observations with a little bias as
possible
• Ability to take technical issues and organize them into a
coherent, concise, and delightful explanation
• Ability to understand the issues in
mathematics/Science/Engineering of team
• Ability to ORGANIZE the final presentation
Camera Person
• Leadership Issues
– Communication
• Explain to the team the limits of the camera
• Establish camera positions for the team as it works
• Remind the team that your pictures will make or break
the quality of the final presentation
• Ask questions so that you can capture with camera the
most important aspects of the project
Camera Person Page 2
– Project Issues
• Main problem: find out from the other team members
what is important to film
• Establish camera positions so that you are in position to
capture important moments with the team
• Establish a shooting schedule so that your team has
sufficient evidence for final presentation
• Learn the camera and its strengths/limitations
• Work very closely with the Writer so that you maintain
a consensus of what needs to be done
Camera Person Page 3
– Skills
• Ability to understand the issues of the project: math,
science, communication
• Ability to work closely with the Designer and Writer to
create the final presentation
• Ability to frame pictures in the camera
• Ability to control and understand what can be done
with the camera
• Ability with writer to take the clips captured and edit
them (this is the difficult one)
Issues of Final Presentation
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Audience
Format
Script
Pictures/Clips
Descriptions of the activities of team
Listing of accomplishments of team
Issues of Final Presentation 2
• Practical Issues
– Who speaks?
– Timeline of activities
– Main points of presentation?
– What visuals: pictures, clips (video)?
– Time limit of Presentation