Coaching Questions Group 5
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 your answers directly underneath the questions.
After the kick-off - Week 1
- What are you expecting to learn during the Robots course?
(1) Ways the knowledge obtained previously can be used in solving a real-world robots problem.
(2) Working on a project having less prescription than usual.
(3) Professional skills starting from communication and ending with presenting and academic writing.
- What kind of coaching do you expect?
(1) Meeting once in a week to answer the questions the team has collected during the last week
(2) Following the team's progress in order to give a critical view on the condition of the work
- What kind of coaching would you prefer?
(1) Meeting once in a week to answer the questions the team has collected during the last week
(2) Following the team's progress in order to give a critical view on the condition of the work
(3) Answering crucial questions through the email during the weekdays.
- What will the coaches expect of you?
(1) Submitting all the deliverables before the deadline.
(2) Each member being present for the meeting and in time
(3) If there are any circumstances for a team member not to be present, then the coaches have to be informed as early as possible.
(4) Being communicative.
(5) Academic writing and talking.
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 learned that when a project is presented to either to teacher or employer, all the details, assumptions and specifications must be clearly defined beforehand
- How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
After the meeting we defined all the aspects of our project more clearly and set more precise goal.
- What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
We identify the technologies we use for accomplishing our goal and describe in detail the sick behavior of the animals. By doing so we learned how to better find and extract useful information from papers. Additional to that, we had to do a lot of brainstorming, which helped us to develop our ideas and combine our ideas together.
- What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
We discussed if we satisfied all the remarks we got from the last meeting. After that we tried to compress all the new information so that we can present it during the meeting more efficiently.
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?
One of the most interesting thing is that for a really good piece of advice it is recommended to get in contact with people in the field of study. That’s why it was recommended for us to contact Ms. Lenny van Erp from Den Bosch.
- How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
The feedback was positive on our idea, but we still have to narrow down the scope. To be precise why the cameras have certain angles, why our choices are good. We already met and discussed all technical details and we expect to have a meeting somewhere next week with Ms Lenny van Erp. We already contacted her and she invited us over for a meeting in Den Bosch or via Skype.
- What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
We discussed the requirements and constraints for our project, we will meet with the expert in the field and we started to think about the simulation environment.
- What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
We established the work per person for the current week, divided task, talked about the idea and what needed to be in each part such that we can all follow the same flow of the project. Also, we are preparing to talk with Ms van Erp somewhere 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?
- 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