For the last week of November and moving forward, we've added an extra session each week. Instead of just meeting on Wednesdays right after school, we will be meeting on both Wednesdays and Thursdays. There is a lot to get done with the competition coming up fast.
We broke out on Wednesday and Thursday of this week into groups and had various people working on different missions. One of the missions is close, with the group that has been focusing and working on things. Focus is definitely an issue, as we have a lot of kids and it's difficult to get them all on task at the same time. We've had some parents coming in to help with crowd control a bit, which has been good.
We did have some of them working on a new mission, which functions kind of like the big mallet and bell at a carnival, where you hit the target with the mallet or sledgehammer and it makes the weight go up and hit the bell, except it's a spaceship that has to go high enough to get into orbit. It's a fun one to work on, although to me it seems more error-prone. I assigned one of the team to be in charge of thinking about risk vs. reward and the likelihood of something working or not working to help us focus on the things we know we can accomplish and get some points out of. Not that we shouldn't try hard things, but we want to get some points.
We did confirm the name Digicorns. I guess they're all set on that, so there we go.
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