Survey Results

From Practice Workshop

The Practice workshop was help in s104 for two class periods. The class consisted of the honors group, who do not know a lot about computers. There were 17 students. We used the results of this survey to prepare for the real workshop, which will be held at McAuley High School.

 

On a Scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best) please rate the following questions:

1)    How much did you enjoy this workshop?

       

10

10

7

6

5

9

8

9

9

8

7

7

5

7

7

8

4

 

Average:  7.4

 

Comments:

  • It was very interesting and educational
  • It was fun the first couple of times you programmed the robot, but then it got boring
  • Very different concept integrating the idea of lego.

  • It was interesting and creative.

  • It seemed really interesting at times, but there were a lot of problems with getting the robots to work.

 

2)  How well was the workshop presented?

 

7

10 7
7 5 9
8 9 7
7 8 8
7 5 8
7 7/6

Average:  7.4

 

Comments:

  • Some improvements would be more demonstrations of the different types of things the robots do and perhaps more projects to do
  • You had an articulate explanation.  Simple instructions.
  • It was hard to hear what you were saying.  It was easy to figure out what to do on the program.
  • Presenters were well prepared, informative, and knowledgeable about the material.
  • It was enjoyable.
  • Instructions were fairly clear

 

3)  How interesting was this workshop?

 

10

10 8
5 5 8
9 9 10
8 7 7
7 6 7
7 4

 

Average:  7.5

 

Comments:

  • It was interesting to see how the robots were programmed.
  • It was kind of boring.
  • Shows different uses/application from robots.
  • Very
  • It got boring on the second day but that was more because I was tired (unrelated reasons).
  • It was kind of easy once it was presented and it didn't hold my attention because of that.

 

4)  What did you like best about this workshop?

 

  • Being able to experiment with programming.
  • I liked programming the robots in general.  I really liked the sensors.
  • I liked playing with the robot.  It was interesting.
  • When the robots did what we wanted.
  • The idea it was done with legos.
  • The robots were cool.
  • Robots were fun to play with.
  • It allowed me to learn how to program a simple robot.
  • I liked programming the robots.
  • I enjoyed designing "moves" for the robot.
  • I liked the hands on aspect of working with robots.
  • The neat things you can actually do with legos.
  • Making the robots dance.
  • Just seeing the computer download programs to the robot.
  • Learned how to do it.
  • I thought the idea of it was fun, and I like legos and robots.

 

5)  What did you like least about this workshop?

 

  • I think we need to do more sensor programming.
  • I was disappointed when things didn't work.
  • When they didn't work.
  • The robots would sometimes not work.
  • Not enough robots.
  • Timing was bad.
  • Most of the robots or computers didn't work at first.
  • I wish there were different robots so we could see what they do.
  • We really didn't get a chance to do complex and interesting stuff with the robots.
  • When I wasn't working with the robots, just watching others was a little tedious.
  • Technical difficulties.
  • Trying to get the robot to work.
  • The wheels that kept falling off.
  • Too easy.
  • It was boring because we did very few things in a long amount of time.

6)  Were the instructors helpful?

  • Yes
  • Yes, very much
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes, if there were any problems they knew how to fix them.
  • Sometimes
  • Sometimes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Two of the girls were
  • Yes, the instructors were very helpful

 

7)  Would you have attended this workshop by choice?

 

  • Yes, it was very interesting
  • Yes, if it is a good time
  • Probably not
  • Most likely not
  • No
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes if it were better timed
  • If I had the time, yes
  • No, but because of lack of time
  • Perhaps
  • It is not something I would have done on my own, but I was excited when I heard that our class was attending
  • Probably
  • Maybe
  • No
  • No
  • I would have attended.

 

8)  Any suggestions or improvements

 

  • Perhaps working with different types of options the robots can do (mechanical arm, etc.)
  • Have music and we can coordinate the robots to music
  • Have different kinds of robots
  • More robots
  • There should be more robots and different varieties.
  • I would have liked to work individually, but I can see how that could eat up the budget.
  • I would have liked to see the instructors do more complex things with the robots
  • Keep working hard
  • More organization
  • More challenges to make the robots do
  • Change style of robots.
  • I think that if you show people how to do more things with the robots it would keep them more interested.  Also, if we could have actually made the robots from legos it would have been really cool.