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User:PhillipaDickens/Gymnastics, a sport once every four years?

Gymnastics is a sport of grace, elegance, beauty, strength and defying gravity. It is considered by some to be the 'ultimate sport' due to the seemingly inhuman skills performed. It is one of the most popular sports during the Summer Olympics, however it seems to not exist throughout the rest of the quadrennial. Is it that the Olympics is the only time when gymnasts compete? Or is it that politics get in the way of allowing the public to see when the athletes are competing? This article will look at both these questions, focusing on the most popular category of gymnastics, Women's Artistic Gymnastics, as well as comparing the public acknowledgment of the sport in America compared to Australia.

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The Evolution of Gymnastics
Gymnastics is one of the oldest sports known, having been one of the 43 events in the first modern Olympics in 1896, however it was different to the gymnastics seen in the Olympics today. It consisted of events such as ‘rope climb’ and ‘team high bar’. Only men were allowed to compete in these events. Women were permitted to compete in gymnastics for the first time in 1952 (http://www.maffra.gymnastics.org.au/pages/history.html). Gradually the sport evolved, and eventually the sport we know as gymnastics was created. However instead of the small little girls seen competing in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics today they were often older women who had been ballet dancers, as is the case of the most decorated Olympian Larissa Latynina of the Former Soviet Union (http://sports.jrank.org/pages/2737/Latynina-Larisa-An-Orphan-Seeking-Beauty.html). This was changed when Olga Korbut first competed in the 1972 Olympics, and was considered to be a little girl in comparison to her ‘women’ competitors. She was also performing more difficult skills than had ever been seen before. This was emphasized in 1976 when Nadia Comaneci competed. She is possibly one of the most famous gymnasts ever having earned the first perfect 10 in an Olympic competition. As gymnastics continued to evolve the skills got more difficult and the apparatus were adapted to suit this. The floor became sprung, rather than just being a piece of carpet on the ground, the uneven bars have been moved further apart to allow gymnasts to swing more freely between the two, the beam has been adapted to be softer for the gymnasts feet, and the vaulting horse has been removed in favor for the safer vaulting table. This allows for much more difficult skills to be competed, especially on floor.

Gymnastics Outside the Olympic Games
Gymnastics is one of the most popular sports in the Olympic games, however it appears that is the only time that it is popular. During the Olympics gymnastics is shown at prime time and has a very high viewing rate and tickets generally either sell out or almost sell out. The other three years however, most people don’t even acknowledge the sport exists. Do these athletes only compete once every four years? No. They are training and competing in major competitions quadrennial. Those who make it to the very top of their country will be competing each year at the World Championships. This competition should be considered as prestigious as the Olympic Games, however, to those outside the sport, and many in the sport, it is not. For many fans of gymnastics, it is difficult to view the World Championships while the athletes are competing, and many rely of bloggers to post updates in order to know what is happening. While there are a few sites that allow a live stream, such as Universal Sports, these generally have to be paid for, and are not available in all countries.

The effect of traditional media on the sport
By having the media focus so strongly on the Olympic Games, it has affected the sport of gymnastics. Athletes are now aiming to peak once every four years, rather than every year. While they are happy to win world championships, the main focus is to win an Olympic medal. In gymnastics, this causes many issues. There is an age rule for how old an athlete must be before being considered eligible to compete in a World Championships or Olympic Games. If they are not turning 16 in the year of the competition, they are unable to compete (Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, Technical Regulations 2011). For athletes who turn 16 in the year following the Olympic Games, this is incredibly difficult. By the way gymnastics is looked at today, the athletes are required to be in top form for the entire four year cycle. This increases the risk of injury and mental burn out for the young athletes. There are many arguments for abolishing the age rule, however if the World Championships were to become as publicly known, then the idea of being World Champion would be as appealing as being Olympic Champion.

The effect of social media on the sport
This view is expressed by many people, some of who have a fairly strong voice in the blog world of gymnastics. The Couch Gymnast, a self-confessed couch gymnastics fan, has an amazing knowledge of gymnastics, both as a fan, but also of the more technical side. While she may not have done the courses or training of the coaches, judges or athletes, she has done the research and has learnt about the sport through this and through watching the sport. This is one of the most important ways that the sport of gymnastics is promoted. In modern society, the Internet is the largest source of communication. If blogs are promoted correctly, the sport can get a boost in society, and may possibly mean that it is seen outside the Olympics. The FIG, the international governing body of gymnastics, have acknowledged this, allowing various bloggers to attend World Championships as media, and allowing them to either blog or post live Facebook updates during the competition. This has so far proven to be highly beneficial, with many international fans being satisfied with the coverage, however, many agree that live video would be much better. In Australia, fans were fortunate enough that if they had Foxtel coverage of the 2011 World Championships was available a few days after the event had taken place. While this is not the ideal timing, it is better than previous years, where there has been no coverage and fans have had to wait until others post the footage on various sites, or not see it at all.

Australian Gymnastics
Gymnastics in Australia is slowly becoming a more popular with registrations of athletes across all gymsports in excess of 120 000. This includes those athletes who are just starting out to those who are competing in the Senior International level. Of this 120 000 there are around 11 Senior International athletes. In a World Championships team there are 6 athletes who compete and two reserves. This is over half the total number of Senior International gymnasts currently competing in Australia. With the restrictions on numbers, it is important that in order for Australia to perform well and get the media recognition that is deserved, the top athletes have to remain healthy. This is a challenge as, due to the nature of gymnastics, injury is very common. Australia recently received a boost when Lauren Mitchell won gold in the floor exercise at world championships in 2010, and silver on the beam and floor exercise at the world championships in 2009. The boost that the sport received from this is similar to the one it received in 2005 when Monette Russo became Australia’s first female gymnast to medal at a World Championships where she placed 3rd. That World Championships was also a boost for gymnastics in the media in Australia as it was held in Melbourne. This competition received a lot of media attention, as did the competitions in 2009 and 2010. However, the team did not perform as well in the 2011 world championships, leaving the competition with no medals, and there was no media attention in Australia. They did however qualify a full team to the Olympic Games, which only eight countries were able to do.

American Gymnastics
American Gymnastics currently has 4.5 million registered athletes. Of these, 71% are female, and at the Visa Championships in 2011, 20 Senior International female athletes competed. In order to compete at the Visa Championships an athlete must either qualify or be selected. From this competition 18 athletes were selected to the national training squad, some through injury petition. With a 6 athlete team and two reserves, that leave over half the national training squad, ready to step in in case of injury, as well as many other athletes who did not qualify to the team. With this depth, America has placed within the top three at every World Championships or Olympic Games since the 2000 Olympics. With this success, gymnastics in America has become one of the most popular sports. They have a major international competition each year, the American Cup, and the Visa American Championships, one of the most prestigious competitions in America. Both these competitions are televised and receive large amounts of media coverage. In the USA gymnasts who are successful internationally often elect to become professional athletes. This means they are allowed to make money from the sport by accepting prize money from winning World Championships, American Cup, American Championships as well as taking endorsements from companies such as GK Elite, the most popular gymnastics leotard brand across the world. Some athletes have been known to promote brands such as Adidas, or even taco’s.

The Major Differences Between American and Australian Gymnastics
In America, companies much more readily invest on the product of gymnasts and their sport. They have realized that every girl wants to be like those girls. So graceful like ballerinas, yet so powerful and strong, like superwoman. Women want to have bodies like these athletes, lean, muscular and athletic. With these qualities, the athletes are highly marketable. Whether the company is selling leotards to other gymnasts or tacos to the general population, with people who are able to flip and look good while doing it, the companies have realized that they are able to utilize this in order to sell more products. Companies in Australia have not yet established this connection, and prefer to use the more mainstream athletes, such as cricketers or footballers, to promote their products. Whether this is because they wish to remain using more publicly known faces or have not realized the potential behind using gymnasts is unknown. If companies were to capitalize on gymnasts, then the athletes would be in the public eye much more, and would be as recognizable as the more mainstream sports athletes. This is the type of boost gymnastics in Australia requires so that people are aware of it outside the Olympic Games.

Conclusion
Gymnastics is a sport that is not recognized at any period other than when the athletes are successful at a World Championships or throughout the Olympic Games. If the governing body of gymnastics in Australia were to allow it to become a more commercial sport, then the sport would likely become more publicly known and the athletes more recognizable. This would help the sport be known as a sport throughout more than just the Olympic Games.


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 * Noam Chomsky (1957)
 *  Syntactic Structures

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User:Dcaldero8983/enes100

This is where my personal work for the course enes100 at howard community college are going to be stored.
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User:Dcaldero8983/enes100/poppit

Problem Statement
In a game full of many multiple chances of outcomes, there are only a few strategies for the game of Poppit to beat the game with at least 5 balloons or less without using any pins or weights and only the undo button. What strategies can be discovered?

Website
The poppit game can be accessed through google chrome (not firefox) http://poppit.pogo.com/hd/PoppitHD.html

Recordings and Results
I used many strategies to try to beat the game and have an outcome with at least 5 balloons. Out of 7 trials, only with one method did I manage to end with 5 balloons. That method is where you pop any balloons from bottom to top in groups of two's in order to create a possible pop of many more groups of balloons monitoring how the balloons would line up for the next pop. This outcome worked more than half of the times tried.

Conclusion
Poppit off first impressions seems quite easy but can turn out to be an addicting game where after so many trials ending in failure you try to make up a scheme where you in the end will be victorious. My strategy for this game after trying many ways to beat the game but only ending in defeat was simple. You eliminate options and you become savvy about the game and how it works. My strategy as listed above worked for me most of the time and the times when it didn't work i was close to beating the game ending up with a number close to 5 even though it was not 5.

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User:Baminnick/enes100

I am an engineering student in the course, ENES-100-501 at Howard Community College.

Here is my individual work on the different projects I've worked on:

Poppit

 * Individual Poppit Project

3D Scan

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Corn Starch

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User:Baminnick/enes100/poppit

The information below is regarding the poppit project:
 * Here is a link to the team page: Team Poppit Project

Problem Statement
There are a few methods that can lead the player to sufficiently beat the game Poppit, with only a few balloons remaining. What strategies are most effective at beating this game?

Task Summary
My main task in this project was to develop a method of organizing balloons, so that a strategy can be used to beat the game. The classification and identity of a balloon based on the color, location, and cluster type.

Organizing Balloons
To understand poppit, I developed several possibilities which can be used to classify balloons and then therefore logically proceed with popping the balloons. The most logical and defining method to organize and classify balloons is composed of groupings and location. Classifying a balloon how the balloon is defined under the main group and the sub group. The main group is what color balloon is being defined. This leads to the sub group which is defined by whether or not this single balloon is alone or in a cluster. After classifying the main group and sub group of the balloon, the next step to organizing this balloon is to identify its location. To identify a balloon's location, the column number and row numbers are used. In summation, a balloon is completely defined by its group and the location.

Data and Results
I used several methods to attempt to beat the game poppit. Each method was developed based on its different advantages and disadvantages it has with other methods. The different methods that I used are shown in the list below:

 * 1.  Pop balloons in large clusters first
 * 2.  Pop balloons in small clusters first
 * 3.  Bottom to top
 * 4.  Top to bottom
 * 5.  Left to right
 * 6.  Right to left
 * 7.  Pop darker colored balloons (blue, purple, and green) first
 * 8.  Pop lighter colored balloons (red and yellow) first

By interpreting the data it would appear that the most effective method is popping the lighter colored balloons first, and then proceeding to pop whatever remains. This method popped more balloons than other methods, but not 100% of the time. My data and results do not conclude that this is the strongest method. Other strategies can be used to beat this game effectively.

Analysis and Conclusion
By understanding the classification of a single balloon and relating its classification to other balloons, a method to popping the balloons may begin. Organizing the balloons before hand ensures an understanding of why so many balloons remain after a certain method is used. Therefore someone playing the game poppit can now differ the advantages and disadvantages of their methods clearly.

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User:MrFidaAliEngr/Mr. Fida Muhammad Baigcho

Mr. Fida Muhammad Baigcho: I would dedicate this page to Late Mr. Fida Muhammad Baigcho, my father as very few persons are able to know him. He was born at Thaqskong, Khaplu, Baltistan Pk. His date of birth is not available. Probably, he was born in 1920's. He was a religious muslim. He would say his prayers five times a day regularly and fast in the month of Ramazan. He would attend religious gatherings like Jum'a and Muharram mournings regularly his whole life. He never smoked nor used any other drugs. He came of a noble religious landlord family who never indulged themselves in sinful and criminal activities. He married seven ladies at different times by remaining loyal to one at one time. He came to Skardu during early 1950's and became one of the founding members of Veterinary Department in Baltistan. He managed a piece of land as cultivator at Gongmagrong, Sundus, Skardu where he constructed a small masjid for saying prayers. He served Veterinary Department at Sundus, Skardu and managed lands simultaneously his whole life. He also took part actively in the struggle to get rid of enslaving satanic forces during partioning of the Sub-continent. He passed away on 5th April, 2009 and buried at Sundus. May Allah rest the soul in eternal peace!

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Engineering Projects/Poppit

Idea
The game Poppit is an example html5, free, google application that is a game. The game's goal is to pop balloons, win prizes and score points. The goal is to write software that can play the game better than a person. "Better" is defined as not using the pushpin, or the weight. Can use UNDO. Here the goal is to count the number of balloons left. The ideal score is zero. The goal is not to replicate, record or maximize the poppit score. The goal is to play the game and figure out strategies (pop all horizontal balloon pairs in the top row first) and chunk them (Chunking is an artificial intelligence term), write functions to detect them in screen shots and then start combining the chunks in various ways. Don't think you need to know how to use the program in order to be part of this project.

SubSystems

 * /Re-creating/
 * /Chunks/
 * /Human Average/
 * /Math/

Colleges/Universities

 * /Howard Community College/

title: Engineering Projects/Poppit


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College

Howard Community College is starting this project in the fall of 2011.
 * /Fall2011/


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011

Name your project team on this page with the following naming convention: section (501, 550, 502) _ unique team name So for example your name could be 501_rabbits. 501 means the MW 11-1 section. Add it below the rabbits team link below. It would look like:
 * /501_EME/
 * /501_dragons/
 * /501_jdjengineers/
 * /501_jupiters/
 * /501_robots/
 * /501_superior/
 * /501_trees/
 * /501_boring/
 * /550_cjf/
 * /550_superior_4/
 * /550_prgm/
 * /550_fke/
 * /550_antneo/
 * /550_DE/
 * /502_ZNC/
 * /502_DBBM/
 * /502_HDM/
 * /502_TDM/
 * /502_TSAY/
 * /502_AZM/
 * /502_1+1=11/
 * /550_tj2/
 * /550_qpa/
 * /502_ABM/
 * /502_ZTRH/


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/501 EME

Problem Statement
In our process as a group we used statistics to try and figure out how to beat poppit. Using the human average by playing a series of games and recording data then comparing with-in our team.

Team Members
Put each team members name here with links to their personal page here. Real names do not have to be used.
 * User:CFurby/enes100/poppit
 * User:Ckpress/enes100/poppit
 * User:ARoberts/enes100/poppit

10/10 points 1sfoerster 17:52, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Summary
Using different methods:

1. Left to right

2. Right to left

3. Top to bottom

4. Bottom to top

5. Chunks

6. Doubles

7. Color elimination

 * Team Averages

CFurby avg: 22.3

ARoberts avg: 20.6

Ckpress avg: 27.1

team weekly reports.

Poster
No picture

Story
We were assigned the task of creating a program to pop all the balloons in the computer game | Poppit. So we decided it would be best to find our average number of balloons left over to see if popping all the balloons every game was feasible. We had each team member play the game using a variety of different techniques such as: Left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top, chunks, doubles, and color elimination. After an estimated 2 hours of play per teammate, our average number of balloons left over by teammate were: CFurby 22.3, ARoberts 20.6, and Ckpress 27.1. This information gave our team a 23.3 average number of balloons left over.

Decision List
We decided to use statistics to figure out the human average as and approach to how to reduce the left over balloons when playing poppit. Each of the three team members would play a set of twenty plus games and record he/she average. We approached the task by using many different methods. First method was popping the ballons from left to right. Second method was from Right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top, then in chunks, doubles, and finally color elimination.

Material List
There are no materials

Software List
Programs and softwares use were poppit and excel

Time
Time took was was around 2hrs per team member to play poppit and record data

Next Steps
Steps:

1. Come up with a problem statement

2. Figure out what we as a group will do to solve the problem

3. Used statistics to solve them problem

4. Assign individual task to each member of the group (play poppit, and record data)

5. Play poppit a set number of times

6. Record the left over balloons (after a set number of games)

7. Calculate the average

8. Compare with members in the group

9. Analyze and write feed back on what we have done


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/501 dragons

Copy the outline of the electronic sections of the team done information below:

Problem Statement
Figure out the typical or average startup configuration of balloons in terms of color and grouping.

Team Members
These are the team members of the Dragons!
 * Zchill
 * Dkromer1996
 * Mderrick4950

5/10 points .. back links don't work 1sfoerster 17:49, 7 September 2011 (UTC) can not grade user pages if the back links don't work 1sfoerster 17:53, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Summary
We gathered data of the start up screens in the game Poppit, and team weekly reports.

Poster
Put a graphic in wikimedia, include the graphic here or link to it here. The graphic should be suitable for creating a traditional project poster.

Story
Tell a story of the project. Describe how tasks were split up, what the obstacles were, what testing was done, what informal decisions were made, what assumptions were made, what the results were. This is a longer version of the summary with links to all the details collected associated with the project. These links could be to software, links to videos, links to project pages with pictures, etc. Think of the story as a summary of the team weekly reports on one long page rather than a short paragraph like the summary.

Decision List
Our only decision was to decide how we would go about finding our statistics. We decided to count all the balloons on the opening screen of Poppit, and divide them by color.

Material List
We only used our own computers with internet access to see the opening screens of Poppit. No other materials were needed or used for this project.

Software List
We used no software for this project.

Time
Time estimates and actual time consumed measurements helps justify salaries (grades). The only way to gain respect for estimated project time and costs is to practice.

Tutorials
Most projects consist of making instructions to jump start the next team, shrink the learning of tools and software to the minimum, advice on where to purchase materials, how to assemble, etc. Tutorials modified or created are described here with links.

Next Steps
The next steps would be to find averages of colors and balloons, and see if a statistics formula could be used.


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/501 jdjengineers

Copy the outline of the electronic sections of the team done information below:

Problem Statement
The goal for us was trying to pop up as many balloons as possible and see if it is mathematically possible to pop up all the balloons. Here are several problem statements we had. How many balloons for each color at the beginning and after a game? Do the amount of different color balloons affect the result? Does it matter that which way I start popping up the balloons? Is there any methods in Math and Statistics that I can use to calculate it? Can I just pop up all the balloons using logical thinking?

Team Members
Put each team members name here with links to their personal page here. Real names do not have to be used.
 * Joon Kim
 * James Morgan
 * Di Zhang

Summary
Put an overall, one paragraph summary here with links to the team weekly reports.

We spent two weeks to do the Chunk Poppit project. The goal of this project is to find out a solution to pop up as many balloons as possible or even pop up all the balloons. In order to achieve the goal, we did several tests trying to figure out a pattern. It included comparing the amount of each color balloons at the beginning and the end of a game; starting games from different directions, such as from the left, the right and the bottom and counting how many steps to go from the beginning to the end. We didn't get a good and helpful result from doing those tests. Then we tried to just play the game basing on our logical thinking. The main idea of doing this was trying to group up all the single color balloons as many as possible. By doing in this way, we got less balloons left than simply starting it from single direction. The best we got to was 2 balloons left. Then we asked one of the math professors and an online game expert for help. Professor Lang gave us more detail ideas to test it from math division. And he suggested us to do it using shifted graphs. However, we didn't have enough time to finish this project, but the suggestions gave us a better direction if somebody needs to continue doing it in the future. In the meanwhile, we asked the online game expert to help us playing the game. She spent about 3 days and 5 to 6 hours everyday to get all the balloons popped. She had the same concept as the way we were using logical thinking. The only difference was she spent more time on it and she undo the steps to be thoughtful. It proved that it is possible that all the balloons can be popped. It is just time consuming.

Poster
Put a graphic in wikimedia, include the graphic here or link to it here. The graphic should be suitable for creating a traditional project poster.

Story
The project is Chunk Poppit. The goal is to pop as many balloons as possible or even get all the balloons popped. We started with doing different tests. Through the tests, we hoped to find a pattern and corresponding relationship to pop the balloons. Joon Kim tested the relationship between the amount of different color balloons at the begining and the end of a game. James Morgan tested how many steps were cost to go from the beginning to the end. Di Zhang was responsible for starting from different directions. From the data, I couldn't find the relationship between the amount of different color balloons at the beginning and at the end. And the amount for each color balloons at the beginning doesn't have much different. They are all around 20 to 30 balloons for each color. Also, the test showed that doing from the bottom had less balloons left than doing from the left or the right. However, it would still have at least 15 to 30 balloons left doing from the bottom. It seems like simply popping from one direction didn't work.

Then we tried to play it basing on our logical thinking. We would start from the lower level. For instance, if we saw there was one red balloon by itself on top and there were some grouped red balloons at the bottom, we won't pop the grouped red balloons. we would wait for the group rise up and group up the single red balloon. When we tried to pop up the balloons in the middle, we would look at the lower levels, trying to pop the balloons which were grouped horizontally first because once we pop the balloons in the middle, the following balloons would rise which might cost horizontal grouped balloons separate.

The best result we can get from playing it basing on logical thinking was 4 left and 2 left.

Then we asked Professor Lang and an online game expert for help. Professor Lang showed great interest in it and gave us some great advices. He said,"You might analyze the colors in the top row and compare with colors in rows below to see what balloons you will need to have when they rise to the top. This could be done by doing a row-by-row comparison of colors to look for any patterns and what colors appear in which columns in each row. Analyze column-by-column to see what colors appear in each column. Perhaps some sort of correlation analysis, either one-dimensional or two-dimensional would help. You might apply the concept of shifts in a way similar to what you do with the graphs of functions." This suggestion is also about counting the color balloons. However, it had more details. That might be the reason why we couldn't find a relationship by counting colors before, because the method we used was too general. This might narrow down the possibilities. And the graph shifting model part was very interesting too. We need to do more research to actually put it to practical. Since we don't have enough time to do the project, we haven't figure out a good way to test it yet. So we didn't do it but it is a good direction to go if we want to continue it in the future.

Lorita Yau told me she played the game for three days, about 5 or 6 hours everyday, she finally got all the balloons popped. The pictures on the right are the proves. We saw how she did it. Basically, we had the same concept. She tried to get all the single color balloons grouped up. And she followed the rules I mentioned in the week 0 activities. The only difference was she was really patient and spent a lot of time to play one game. She tried to be really thoughtful from step to step and she undo the steps once she messed up. We don't know if undoing steps is agaist the rules, but it proved that it is possible to pop up all the balloons. It just required a lot of thinking and energy. It was a breakthrough for our team.

Decision List
1. The amount of different color balloons are given randomly, but each color balloons have approximately same amount.

2. Popping simply from one direction won't work.

3. Have to group up all the single same color balloons.

Material List
The material we used was computer and Pogo.com.

Software List
We didn't use any software.

Time
We spent almost two weeks to get to where we are at now. If we want to find a final solution for this project, we will probably consume at least 2 months.

Tutorials
Consulting math professor is nessacery. And doing large amount of tests in significant.

Next Steps
The next step will be analyzing the color balloons in each row and column and use shifted graph method to find out a pattern. You might analyze the colors in the top row and compare with colors in rows below to see what balloons you will need to have when they rise to the top. This could be done by doing a row-by-row comparison of colors to look for any patterns and what colors appear in which columns in each row. Analyze column-by-column to see what colors appear in each column. Perhaps some sort of correlation analysis, either one-dimensional or two-dimensional would help. You might apply the concept of shifts in a way similar to what you do with the graphs of functions.


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/501 jupiters

Problem Statement
Determine a way to play the game Poppit in such a way as to clear the screen of all balloons every time.

Team Members
This is a Poppit project team called Jupiter team pages 10/10 ... good job 1sfoerster 17:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * A. Yapici
 * N. Delaney
 * C. Diffendal

Summary
We began our process using a very simple mathematical hypothesis. When that failed to produce satisfactory results, we moved on to figuring out different ways to target single balloons. We eventually developed a strategy that consistently produces a satisfactory low score, but never managed to eliminate every balloon.

Story
Our initial strategy involved determining whether the number of each color of balloon was the same for each game, or if there was a pattern to determine how many balloons there were. Over the course of building statistics, we discovered that the number of each color of balloon appears to be random.

The next strategy we developed was to eliminate the largest groupings of balloons of the same color first, moving down toward the smaller groups. The average amount of balloons left at the end of the game for this method was 23. We then moved on to attempting to match single balloons to larger groups. We tried moving balloons from the bottom of the grid to the top, and from the top to the bottom. Between these two methods, working from the bottom up yielded better results. We also tried focusing on eliminating columns of balloons, both from the edges to the center, and the center to the edges. The lowest score yielded starting from the center was 3 balloons remaining, and the lowest score working from the edges was 8.

The strategy we determined to be most effective was to target single balloons. The method by which we attach single balloons to larger groups is to eliminate columns from the center of the grid to the edges, with a focus on eliminating balloons on the bottom of the grid.

Lastly,we have tried the programming language even though it was unsuccessful. We had all the data we needed and we worked on how could we put these data into Processing program and create a software? We used some examples some tutorial in the program to understand how it works.It was very challenging. In the end, we could not create a software to play against the Poppit.

Material List
In order to complete this project the only materials needed were a computer with Internet connection. Our Computation Notebooks were the only things needed to be purchased but it was class requirement so we already had them before the assignment started.

Software List

 * Google Chrome
 * Processing

Time
Our team was assigned to complete the project in a three week period with at least was 8 hours a week per team member. A total of 48 work hours was estimated to complete the project. At the end of the project we accumulated 25 hours of work invested into the project.


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Literature/1959/Gellner

Wikimedia

 * Ernest Gellner

title: Literature/1959/Gellner


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/501 superior

Problem Statement
There are a few methods that can lead the player to sufficiently beat the game Poppit, with only a few balloons remaining. What strategies are most effective at beating this game?

Team Members
Here is a list of links to the USER pages regarding their individual Poppit project pages.
 * Dcalder8983
 * Baminnick
 * Ablomme2125

Summary
Before developing a strategy to beat Poppit, we thought of ways to organize and classify the balloons. We discovered that the most popular method for organizing balloons was to define each balloon by their color, and then whether or not they were grouped in a cluster. This leads to the next step of the classification of a balloon, which is the balloon's location. A balloon's location can be defined by a simple grid system, where the columns and rows of balloons are different axes. After classifying a balloon, we next thought of strategies that can be used to beat Poppit. Several strategies were thought of and experimented on. The method which we thought was most popular was to pop the balloons from bottom to top. In addition to that, the player would have to look for groups of balloons that would lead to the grouping of more identical balloons that could be as well popped. Eliminating a group of two balloons would then raise the balloons up and the balloons would partner up with more similarly colored balloons, and finally ending up with little balloons remaining. Several strategies were thought of and experimented on. In summation, a method for organizing and classifying balloons was developed, and this lead to developing strategies that can now be properly defined and implemented in playing the Poppit game.

Poster
Using these pictures, the method of classifying and defining an individual balloon can be shown. The first step to this process is to develop the grid system, which is simply defined by the column and row numbers of the entire balloon population. Next is the classification stage of the balloon organization method. Since the classification of a balloon based on the color is whether or not it is clustered, we incorporated this into the strategy for beating the Poppit game. By understanding the Poppit game first, and then using the strategy to beat the game, our result was often sufficient.

We started off beginning the game as you can see through the screenshot there are 15 columns and 10 rows all filled with balloons. As the game was started, the balloons were popped accordingly from bottom to top in sets of groups of at least two similar balloons. This would eliminate groups and create a new set of groups and as you can see, the second screen shot shows a game half way played. All the balloons grouped at the bottom were popped and as more of the game was played we reached a point were there were only a few number of balloons left none grouped together that could be popped but the game was won for the most part.

Story
We began working on this project by deciding on what aspect of the project seemed to be the most appealing to us. After we decided to develop different strategies to beat the game, and then test which one was most efficient, we divided the tasks up. Dcaldero8983 was given the task to develop a way that would enable a player to win the game and also lead to the result of very few balloons from the large number of 150 balloons. Baminnick worked on organizing balloons using a classification and defining method. Ablomme2125 worked on understanding the methods the game uses to place the balloons on the screen. The main obstacle that occurred in this project was shared amongst the entire team, it was trying to understand the concept to complete their individual task and to incorporate into how it may reach the final goal. However a solution to this obstacle arrived by "jumping into" the game. By first playing the game, we were able to better understand how the game was to be played. After this we we began our individual tasks working to fulfill the main goal of the project. Once we recorded our findings related to our tasks, we came together as a team and developed a strategy to beat the game.

The results of our newly discovered strategy were conclusive. Since we were able to better understand how the Poppit game recreated different scenarios of balloons, we were easily led to the next step. The second step is the classification of a balloon. By recognizing a single balloon's color, location, and type of cluster; the significance of the balloon being popped at a certain time can be roughly calculated. This step then led to the third and final step, the strategy. The purpose of the strategy is to use the information from the first two stages to beat the game. By completing this procedure, we were able to beat the game more effectively then usual. Our procedure for beating the Poppit game is shown as a list below:

 * 1.  Obtain a general understanding of how the balloons are organized in Poppit
 * 2.  Classify and identify the balloon's based on their color, location, and cluster type.
 * 3.  Implement the strategy, while incorporating the information from the first two steps to beat the game.

Material and Software List
The overall purpose of this project was to become familiar with the engineering process, use wikiversity, and become familiar with working on a team consisting of classmates. The materials used in this project were to fulfill the overall purpose of this project and to develop a solution to the game Poppit. The materials used are:

 * A computer with google chrome
 * Engineering notebooks

Time
Time was spent similarly by each team member depending on their given task. Majority of the team's time was spent on understanding wikiversity, playing the Poppit game, and recording our individual observations in our notebooks and wikiversity pages.

Tutorials
To begin working on this project, you would need Google chrome browser and an engineering notebook to record your information on.

Next Steps
First, start by playing the Poppit game, and become familiar with how to beat the game. And then take it from a different approach. Begin recreating the game by understanding how the game produces the balloons, recognize any patterns within individual games, and how it is generally organized. To do this, the methods of classification and strategies we thought of and tested can be used to recreate the game.


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/501 trees

Problem Statement
NOTE: TEAM PAGE CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED (DivaEngineer)

"Anything you can do, I (a developed computer program) can do better" is the underlying theme in the purpose of this project.

As a collective class, we were tasked with the goal to design a program that would play the game "Poppit" and produce better results than that of a human being. The resulting factor being that the program would leave the least amount of un-popped balloons at the end of each game.

As a team, we were task with "Chunking", figuring out how the Poppit game actually works and possible strategies for leaving the least amount of un-popped balloons at the end of each game.

Team Members

 * DivaEngineer
 * gpforty2
 * asatya

5/10 non of the links to user space work, can not grade user pages 1sfoerster 18:17, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey Guys, you both need to link your User Pages. We received partial points (see prof. notes above) we can get this squared away in the next class DivaEngineer****

Summary
Put an overall, one paragraph summary here with links to the team weekly reports.

Team Weekly Reports
 * /Week 1 (Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 2011)/
 * /Week 2 (Sept. 5 - Sept. 9, 2011)/
 * /Week 3 (Sept. 12 - Sept. 16, 2011)/

Poster
Put a graphic in wikimedia, include the graphic here or link to it here. The graphic should be suitable for creating a traditional project poster.

Note: Include collage of games played

Story
Tell a story of the project. Describe how tasks were split up, what the obstacles were, what testing was done, what informal decisions were made, what assumptions were made, what the results were. This is a longer version of the summary with links to all the details collected associated with the project. These links could be to software, links to videos, links to project pages with pictures, etc. Think of the story as a summary of the team weekly reports on one long page rather than a short paragraph like the summary.

Decision List
List all formal decisions made with links to their documentation such as a decision tree or decision matrix.

Material List
Figuring out what to purchase, what to build, what everything costs is a huge part of engineering. Typically there is a list of materials in stock, materials that are ordered, materials that should be ordered next time there is money, materials that have not been fully justified. These issues are part of healthy management of the engineering lab but are associated with a particular college. The detail needs to be published in this "Done" form. However in the project root, just a list of materials is necessary.

Software List
Installing and learning different software packages is part of most engineering project just like the materials list.

Time
Time estimates and actual time consumed measurements helps justify salaries (grades). The only way to gain respect for estimated project time and costs is to practice.

Tutorials
Most projects consist of making instructions to jump start the next team, shrink the learning of tools and software to the minimum, advice on where to purchase materials, how to assemble, etc. Tutorials modified or created are described here with links.

Next Steps
If this is not filled out, the next team may have to repeat each of your steps just to figure out what the next step is. It is best to write this immediately at the end of the project while creating the summary, poster, presentation, and story.


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Literature/1977/Peirce

Wikimedia

 * Charles S. Peirce
 * Victoria, Lady Welby

Chronology

 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1903). What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance. John Benjamins.
 * Bréal, Michel (1897). Semantics: Studies in the Science of Meaning. Nina Cust, trans., J. P. Postgate, ed. (1900).
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation I," Mind 5: 24–37.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation II," Mind 5: 186–202.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1903). What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance. John Benjamins.
 * Bréal, Michel (1897). Semantics: Studies in the Science of Meaning. Nina Cust, trans., J. P. Postgate, ed. (1900).
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation I," Mind 5: 24–37.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation II," Mind 5: 186–202.

title: Literature/1977/Peirce


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User:MsCsEagleMath/Algebra2

Welcome to Algebra 2!! Extra credit: Go to Algebra 2 and click on the book on the left. Click on self check quizzes. Do the quiz that is equivalent to what section we are in. Send the results to Eunice.Cavalcanti@stlucieschools.org

title: User:MsCsEagleMath/Algebra2


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User:BobFK

Link to my: Engine page, Poppit page, Poppit Project page,  Engines Project Page.

Engineering student.

title: User:BobFK


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Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/501 robots

Copy the outline of the electronic sections of the team done information below:

Problem Statement
Is it possible to have no balloons left every single game?

Team Members

 * Chaagii
 * Fahad
 * andyn6361

10/10 points ... good job 1sfoerster 18:07, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Summary
After playing poppit several number of times. We decided it is best to start from one side and work to the other side. For example, you can start from right top corner. We also found it useful to isolate single colored balloons until a match was found later on. We were successfully able to get no balloons left in two games using the strategies above. team weekly reports.

Poster
The pictures above are the games we were successfully able to complete. HCC 04:10, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Story
Tell a story of the project. Describe how tasks were split up, what the obstacles were, what testing was done, what informal decisions were made, what assumptions were made, what the results were. This is a longer version of the summary with links to all the details collected associated with the project. These links could be to software, links to videos, links to project pages with pictures, etc. Think of the story as a summary of the team weekly reports on one long page rather than a short paragraph like the summary.

After working on Chunk Poppit project, we found out that is possible to get zero balloon. Our team members played almost 200 times and we got only 3 times zero balloons. HCC 05:22, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Decision List
After we played that game we agreed that starting from left or right side is best way to get succeed. HCC

Material List
Figuring out what to purchase, what to build, what everything costs is a huge part of engineering. Typically there is a list of materials in stock, materials that are ordered, materials that should be ordered next time there is money, materials that have not been fully justified. These issues are part of healthy management of the engineering lab but are associated with a particular college. The detail needs to be published in this "Done" form. However in the project root, just a list of materials is necessary.

Software List
Installing and learning different software packages is part of most engineering project just like the materials list.

Time
We spend a lot of times playing Chunk Poppit. Therefore, we realized that in order to pop all balloons we should spend at least 5-10 minutes to get zero balloon. HCC 03:57, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Tutorials
What we discovered is if you start poppit from left or right side, it is possible to get no balloon. however, it is impossible to finish balloon starting from middle In order to do that you should take care of the balloon, which has only colored balloon in column, so you can poppit later with same color balloon. HCC 04:07, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Next Steps
If this is not filled out, the next team may have to repeat each of your steps just to figure out what the next step is. It is best to write this immediately at the end of the project while creating the summary, poster, presentation, and story.


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User:1sfoerster/enes100

First three weeks of intro class:

 * Log into Canvas, Go over Syllabus, emphasize notebook
 * Do It First .. Respect, Reputation, go over reputations ... negative ones
 * Attitude
 * dilbert customers
 * video The Knack
 * video Engineering Mind Diversity
 * It is the worlds problem .. scaffolding double bind

Team Building Exercise in class .. randomly assign teams (3 o4 4).. ask to introduce themselves by responding to this Introduction form

Next class: Bring Notebook, read everything presented today, take the practice quizzes, send comments/arguments about the quiz questions to your instructor in canvas.

 * Notebooks
 * Write name on it
 * Start writing on page 5
 * Title, SignIn, GoingToDo, Doing, RANT
 * Reasons for writing in this notebook
 * Linking personal google drive to shared generic google drive
 * Engineering Problems .. video defining what an engineering problem is
 * Communication .. Slackers .. How to deal with slackers is #1 complaint of students in this course .. work hard .. turn into communicator
 * Frustration .. bootcamp .. more work than individual can handle .. have to work as a team

Weekend team formed through second random process that involves being with new people, not the same. Project 0 is assigned. Students are left alone to figure out who is going to work on what over the weekend.

Next Class: Create wiki id, create a portfolio user page linked to projects page with a weekly report on it. Do Canvas Assignment after reading wikibook sections ( Syllabus, Do it First, Attitude, Notebooks, Problems, Communication) of the wikibook covered. Work on project, write in your notebook, get ready for presentation next class with team mates.

 * Golden Ignorance .. Skit
 * Materials or Hands On Double Bind
 * Setup User page, team page, Link on instructors page
 * Design
 * General Project Documentation
 * CDIO
 * General Engineering Project CDIO implementation

 * Weekend Team Work Project 0 Presentations

 * Let teams self select .. opportunity to be in a third group of people

 * Second weekend Project 0 tasking conversation with instructor

For the next class, practice the quizzes for Golden Ignorance, Design, Project Documentation, Team Building. Over the weekend do Assignment #2 on canvas. Put your negotiated task on the instructors page, coordinate with your team so that your Team project page get's edited and the team is ready to present first class next week.

 * Project 0 documentation review
 * Project 0 Presentations
 * Project 1 Possibilities
 * Instructor creates project 1 on instructors user page
 * Students create project 1 on their wikiversity page and link to a new weekly report.
 * Students link this weekly report to their name on the instructors page
 * Students put their Project 1 Preferences at the top of their new weekly report

Instructor announces project 1 teams based upon preferences .. attendance so far .. and intangibles.

Then instructor introduces some scaffolding like arduino's, or how to use 3D printer, or how to use laser cuter, software on computers in the room review, or ... tools ... tours of facilities ... what ever is going to jump start most of the projects in the room.

Instructor spends time with each team making sure each individual has an individual task.

Project Documentation
 * Past project documentation is here.
 * Spring 2014 documentation is here.
 * Fall 2014 documentation is here.

Project Ideas I am accumulating are:
 * Leidenfrost water flowing up hill .. requires a milling machine .. will do when get new building
 * ../3DComboLock/
 * Vibrobot

National Math Museum in NY ranks these exhibits (teenagers voting)
 * square wheels riding on a track .. would get out on PI day
 * design in 3D and vote what to print next
 * light floor ... relationships among people ... space closest to you ..
 * make music by touching spheres which produce chords

title: User:1sfoerster/enes100


text:
User:ARoberts/enes100

Here is where I will place all my individual documentation for all ENES 100 projects. Fall 2011.
 * App Project
 * Engines project
 * Poppit project

title: User:ARoberts/enes100


text:
User:Jkim7610/enes100

Link back to team page jdjengineers

Here is where I will put all my individual documentations for all enes100 introduction to engineering projects fall 2011

title: User:Jkim7610/enes100


text:
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title: User talk:BobFK


text:
User:Ndelaney9295/ENES100

ENES100 - Introduction to Engineering Design is a course in which user Ndelaney9295 is currently enrolled.

Teams
User Ndelaney9295 is or has been a team member of the following (newest to oldest):
 * Creators
 * Lifters
 * Veteran Bacon
 * Jupiters

Projects
User Ndelaney9295 is working on or has worked on the following projects (newest to oldest):
 * Apps
 * Static Electricity
 * Ham Radio
 * Chunk Poppit

title: User:Ndelaney9295/ENES100


text:
User:1sfoerster/enes100/poppit

Link back to team superior

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
Typically the instructor picks teams. Students send the instructor their top 3 choices. The project choices are typically those found at Category:General_Engineering_Projects. The instructor tries to put students in the project of their choice. Put your top three choices here after they are used to assign you to this project. Create a link to the project root and to where your team will be working.

Write problem statement
Look through the existing problem statements. Find something not yet done on the project. Create a problem statement for it. Think of a new subsystem that needs to be built for the project. The goal is something simple, possible, for zero dollars.

Assign Task1
Tasks are typically done over the weekend. They are documented during the week, presented during the week and the next weekends work is negotiated during the week. Week 0 is the week that task 1 is negotiated. Record your individual task here. Plan on working on it during the weekend between week0 and week1.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Rationalize differences

Week1 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week1 and week2 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Rationalize differences

Week2 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.

title: User:1sfoerster/enes100/poppit


text:
User:Mderrick4950/enes100

This is where I will post all my work for the ENES-100 class for fall 2011.

Poppit
I figured out the problem statement and began gathering data towards the solution. My group wanted to figure out the average set up of Poppit, and figure out if there was a typical set up of the game. I found the following data:

Red- 33, 31 Purple- 31, 29 Green- 28, 36 Yellow- 35, 24 Blue- 23, 30

title: User:Mderrick4950/enes100


text:
User:ARoberts/enes100/poppit

Link to team EME

Problem statement
In our process as a group we used statistics to try and figure out how to beat poppit. Using the human average by playing a series of games and recording data then comparing with-in our team.

Summary
Using different methods:

1. Left to right

2. Right to left

3. Top to bottom

4. Bottom to top

5. Chunks

6. Doubles

7. Color elimination

Assign Task1
I played Poppit a total of 20 times in a variety of strategies to see which would be the most effective way at popping all the balloons. After my trial, my average for balloons left was 20.6 balloons which is far from a perfect score of 0 balloons left. Others in my group had about the same averages which means that we all usually had near the same amount of balloons left. We could not devise a strategy well enough to pop all balloons. I could not find a satisfactory way to pop all balloons nor could I make a program that would do the same.

title: User:ARoberts/enes100/poppit


text:
User:Andyn6361/enes100

Here is where I will put all of my individual documentations for enes-100 of fall 2011

title: User:Andyn6361/enes100


text:
User:Chaagii 0817/enes100/poppit

Here I am going to put all information for fall 2011 Link back to team robots

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
Typically the instructor picks teams. Students send the instructor their top 3 choices. The project choices are typically those found at Category:General_Engineering_Projects. The instructor tries to put students in the project of their choice. Put your top three choices here after they are used to assign you to this project. Create a link to the project root and to where your team will be working.

Write problem statement
Look through the existing problem statements. Find something not yet done on the project. Create a problem statement for it. Think of a new subsystem that needs to be built for the project. The goal is something simple, possible, for zero dollars.

Assign Task1
Tasks are typically done over the weekend. They are documented during the week, presented during the week and the next weekends work is negotiated during the week. Week 0 is the week that task 1 is negotiated. Record your individual task here. Plan on working on it during the weekend between week0 and week1.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Rationalize differences

Week1 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week1 and week2 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Rationalize differences

Week2 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.

title: User:Chaagii 0817/enes100/poppit


text:
User:Jkim7610

Poppit Project poppit team page

Engines Project : HEMI New engines project : BigBlock Hovercraft team : Hovercraft

This is where I discuss my Poppit project.

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
Typically the instructor picks teams. Students send the instructor their top 3 choices. The project choices are typically those found at Category:General_Engineering_Projects. The instructor tries to put students in the project of their choice. Put your top three choices here after they are used to assign you to this project. Create a link to the project root and to where your team will be working.

Write problem statement
Look through the existing problem statements. Find something not yet done on the project. Create a problem statement for it. Think of a new subsystem that needs to be built for the project. The goal is something simple, possible, for zero dollars.

Assign Task1
Tasks are typically done over the weekend. They are documented during the week, presented during the week and the next weekends work is negotiated during the week. Week 0 is the week that task 1 is negotiated. Record your individual task here. Plan on working on it during the weekend between week0 and week1.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Rationalize differences

Week1 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week1 and week2 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Rationalize differences

Week2 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.

title: User:Jkim7610


text:
User:Andyn6361/enes100/poppit

Link to Team robots

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
Typically the instructor picks teams. Students send the instructor their top 3 choices. The project choices are typically those found at Category:General_Engineering_Projects. The instructor tries to put students in the project of their choice. Put your top three choices here after they are used to assign you to this project. Create a link to the project root and to where your team will be working.

Write problem statement
Find a strategy to pop all of the balloons in the game Poppit.

Assign Task1
Task was to develop a strategy to pop all of the balloons in the game Poppit, play the game and record the remaining number of balloons after the game. Main strategy was to start at the top corners of the balloons and flip flop from either sides when stuck. Out of 30 playing trials, the lowest amount of remaining balloons in a game was 3.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Rationalize differences

Week1 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week1 and week2 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Rationalize differences

Week2 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.

title: User:Andyn6361/enes100/poppit


text:
User:Fissbusta/enes100/poppit

Link back to team robots

Give instructor top 3 project choice list
Typically the instructor picks teams. Students send the instructor their top 3 choices. The project choices are typically those found at Category:General_Engineering_Projects. The instructor tries to put students in the project of their choice. Put your top three choices here after they are used to assign you to this project. Create a link to the project root and to where your team will be working.

Write problem statement
Look through the existing problem statements. Find something not yet done on the project. Create a problem statement for it. Think of a new subsystem that needs to be built for the project. The goal is something simple, possible, for zero dollars.

Assign Task1
Tasks are typically done over the weekend. They are documented during the week, presented during the week and the next weekends work is negotiated during the week. Week 0 is the week that task 1 is negotiated. Record your individual task here. Plan on working on it during the weekend between week0 and week1.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Rationalize differences

Week1 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week1 and week2 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Rationalize differences

Week2 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task3
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week2 and week3 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week3 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task4
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the weekend between week3 and week4 of the project here.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Rationalize differences

Week4 Narrative
Upload photos to wikimedia. Upload video to youtube. Convert all spreadsheets, documents, and presentations to wiki format and create wiki subpage of your page for each of them. Link to them here in a narrative that tells a story. High light the problems (engineering problems) you had and how you solved them.

Week4 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:33, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
During this week you will perform the week0 activities of the next project.

title: User:Fissbusta/enes100/poppit


text:
Engineering Projects/Poppit/Howard Community College/Fall2011/501 Boring

Copy the outline of the electronic sections of the team done information below:

Problem Statement
Put the last negotiated problem statement with the instructor or client of the project here.

Team Members
Put each team members name here with links to their personal page here. Real names do not have to be used.
 * User:Drew_Dollas/enes100/poppit
 * User:Thanson2045/enes100/poppit
 * User:Hkang0839/enes100/poppit

Summary
Put an overall, one paragraph summary here with links to the team weekly reports.

Poster
Put a graphic in wikimedia, include the graphic here or link to it here. The graphic should be suitable for creating a traditional project poster.

Story
Tell a story of the project. Describe how tasks were split up, what the obstacles were, what testing was done, what informal decisions were made, what assumptions were made, what the results were. This is a longer version of the summary with links to all the details collected associated with the project. These links could be to software, links to videos, links to project pages with pictures, etc. Think of the story as a summary of the team weekly reports on one long page rather than a short paragraph like the summary.

Decision List
List all formal decisions made with links to their documentation such as a decision tree or decision matrix.

Material List
Figuring out what to purchase, what to build, what everything costs is a huge part of engineering. Typically there is a list of materials in stock, materials that are ordered, materials that should be ordered next time there is money, materials that have not been fully justified. These issues are part of healthy management of the engineering lab but are associated with a particular college. The detail needs to be published in this "Done" form. However in the project root, just a list of materials is necessary.

Software List
Installing and learning different software packages is part of most engineering project just like the materials list.

Time
Time estimates and actual time consumed measurements helps justify salaries (grades). The only way to gain respect for estimated project time and costs is to practice.

Tutorials
Most projects consist of making instructions to jump start the next team, shrink the learning of tools and software to the minimum, advice on where to purchase materials, how to assemble, etc. Tutorials modified or created are described here with links.

Next Steps
If this is not filled out, the next team may have to repeat each of your steps just to figure out what the next step is. It is best to write this immediately at the end of the project while creating the summary, poster, presentation, and story.


text:
User:Thanson2045

Student at Howard Community College.

title: User:Thanson2045