Coaching Questions Group 1

To help your group and the teachers prepare for the tutor meetings, we would like you to answer a few questions in between sessions. The following paragraphs list the questions for each of the weeks, please write you answers directly underneath the questions.

After the kick-off - Week 1

• What are you expecting to learn during the Robots course?

- Literature Research.

- Learning all the aspects of a similar project.

- Starting from scratch to discover something new.

• What kind of coaching do you expect?

- Only interfere when we are taking a really wrong turn or get stuck.

- Remind us of the things we forget to take into account.

• What kind of coaching would you prefer?

- Some knowledge about the contents of our project.

- Cut us off from a wrong direction early.

- Ask critical questions.

- Fast response with possible questions.

• What will the coaches expect of you?

- Steady progression following the planning.

- Keeping the wiki up to date.

- Carefully prepare the 20 minute meetings.

After the first tutor meeting - Week 2

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

- We did not prepare enough.

- Assess our ideas more critically.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

- We made a planning.

- We had an extra hour as a group to prepare for the meeting.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

- Literature research.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

- An extra hour together as a group.

After the second tutor meeting - Week 3

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

- We can now assume our autonomous robot works and exists. This helps us a lot in specifying our goal.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

- The goal shifted from the robot and the greenhouse to mainly the greenhouse and its specifics.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

- Divide the tasks more concretely. Learned to plan ahead better.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

- An extra meeting for determining questions and problems for the next week.

After the third tutor meeting - Week 4

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

- Make an even more concrete planning.

- The USE aspects can be useful for making a list of requirements.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

- We divided the USE aspects and for each of them wrote a list of what that specific group needs.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

- We made the Wiki more stuctured.

- We implemented the USE aspects in our project.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

- We contacted a professor from Wageningen.

- Planned an extra meeting on friday.

After the fourth tutor meeting - Week 5

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

After the fifth tutor meeting - Week 6

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

After the final presentation - Week 7

• What are the major steps of the project? Please list

• What is the most important thing you learned in this project? (e.g .about design or working in groups, etc)

• What do you wish you had spent more time on or done differently?

• What was the most enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why

• What was the least enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why