Coaching Questions Group 13

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?

User centric design process. Combining 5 different studies into one group. Creating something out of our own mind. Problem solving. Keeping up with a self-made planning.

• What kind of coaching do you expect?

Critical coaching, warning when our group diverts too much from the goal or when important things are missed. The coach helps guide the project but has no addition to the content of the project.

• What kind of coaching would you prefer?

Similar to the answer at 2.

• What will the coaches expect of you?

Working independent of the coach. Taking our own responsibility. Good communication within the group and teamwork. Motivated to perform. If things are going wrong the coach will be contacted.

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?

Try to make our problem more concrete, less general, dont make our problem too big.

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

We tried to focus more on a specific problem instead of a general idea, even tried to make the problem too specific, as the feedback suggested.

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

Thought about new, more specific ideas for our project. We have three options but we are not sure this ideas are specific enough. It is also important that the prototype can really help blind people in their daily life.

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

Made a couple of ideas to present to the tutors, hoping they will be specific enough. Also contacted the tutors to ask for feedback.

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?

• 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 third tutor meeting - Week 4

• 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 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