Second draft of Schedule

See below for the second version of the schedule. The main changes have been highlighted.

Please note that you are required to attend the training on Monday 24th March. If you do not show up for the training with out advising me, I will reassign your shifts to those who are clamouring to do more!!

Those who I am aware will not be at training are:

Clifford, Chris
Johnson, Andrew
Faulkner, Alan John
Owen-Hill , Alexander J
Droubi, Mohamad Ghazi

Anyone else who cannot make the training please contact me by email.

Can those who I have assigned to help with the move and setup on Friday and Saturday please contact me by email to confirm that they are still available.

Further details as to the times and locations for Friday 21, Saturday 22nd and Mondays training session will be posted on Tuesday!  I am also hoping to provide some background information on some of the exhibits here too.  So please check back regularily.

Clovenstone Primary 5 Evaluate EISF Activities

We invited children from a P5 class of a local school to come the University yesterday to see some of the activities which we set up in the Mech Eng Crush Area.  It was a lively event and we learnt alot.  The kids were kind enough to fill in a few questionaires for us. 

Here are the results:

Fourteen children attend the event. Of those who gave us their gender 45% were male and 55% female.

They all (100%) thought the event was good.

Most (71%) thought the science was neither too easy or too hard, with 21% (3) thinking that it was too easy, and 7% (1) thinking it was too hard.

Most (57%) thought the language was neither too easy or too hard, with 14% (2) thinking it was too easy and 29% (4) thinking it was too hard.

Words used to describe the event were:

fun, cool, good
fun, cool, very good
fun, exciting
happy, exciting, fun
robot talking, exciting, fun
good, happy, exciting
interesting, happy
fun, zook, cream egg
fun, exciting, extrodinary
good, fun, exlant
cool fun exciting
robot talking, computer spiders running fast, cream eggs glue

The children enjoyed the activities, and most picked more then one (and sometimes all) of the activities as their favorites. The distribution of favorite activities is shown in Figure 1.

  Figure 1. Favorite Activities

Reasons for their choices were:

because it was good fun
doing the zook
because I liked everything about this
I enjoyed all of them
I liked talking robot because it told jokes
because they were fun
because they were brillant plus they wre all fun and splodge was my best one
I enjoyed these because they were fun
design them
I liked splodge because we got to use the pen and we got to write the first letter of our name
because it was very fun

The distribution of activities that they enjoyed the least is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2.  Least Favorite Activities

The reasons given were:

Mixing it up

they were too hard to understand
because I did not understand
because it was very yucky
I didn’t understand

Zooks

made me sike (sic)
because it was too hard
I liked It because it was kind of fun, but not as fun as mixing it up, splodge

Sensing with Light

they were too hard to understand
made me dizzy
because it hurt your eyes when you wear the glasses

Splodge

it was hard

Overall suggested improvements included:

more activities
more activities
have more science stuff
more time
having more things we can try
having more things we can try
more things for us to do
to have toy dolphins in the sensing of light
use glasses that don’t hurt

Other things they wanted us to know:

that its interesting

First Draft of the Schedule!

Hello to all the 2008 Cyberneers!

Here’s the first draft of the schedule.  (click on the image to get a full sized view).  I am working on the basis that you will be working full days.  If there’s a number beside your name you are scheduled to work that day.  I haven’t sorted the get-in or get-out schedule yet.  If there’s an ‘a’ beside your name that means I think you are available for this.  Let me know if I am wrong, or if the scheduling means you won’t be available. Code is

1. Splodge and the Magnficanet Milling Machine
2. Design-a-Zook
3. Sensing with Light
4. Mixing it up
5. Pi and Roland

Oh and (e) means evening of Wednesday 26th.