Cadre Camp Reflection 2

Today we programed a computer maze using scratch as the project editor. we were shown very rapidly how to use it, and then paired off into twos to create our own. we were given two hours and then had to stop…but I did not stop because my partner and I was not finished and everyone else was. In the afternoon we met together with our groups form yesterday and were instructed to build a lego robot that was suppose to transport a lego man through an obstacle course. We worked on the robot for about two and a half hours and my brain felt totally fried. Our robot had to catch the lego man, drive up a ramp, an then shoot the man down a ramp. 

The programing activity was extremely hard for me. I have never done anything with computer programming before and either had my partner, which made things a little frustrating. The group across from us kept understanding the programming and every time they would figure something out they would get extremely excited, which made me even more frustrated. When we were suppose to stop and travel around to each table to play other groups games, ours was not finished and I stayed seated to frantically try to finish our maze. When we started to build the robot i started building the base and connecting the wheels to the base. Sometimes it was frustrating, but mostly had a lot of fun! The time flew by, and before I knew it two and a half hours had passed.

Reacting the way that I did to the programming exercise was mostly due to my brain being extremely worn out an tired. When I get really tired mentally, I tend to get frustrated really easily and want to take things into my own hands. I always resort to trying to do it myself because I think I can figure it out more efficiently myself, which is not always the case. I kept working on the maze instead of stoping when I was suppose to because I can get very competitive and I felt embarrassed that our group's was the only maze unfinished. I really enjoyed the lego assignment because after feeling defeated about the unsuccessful maze, I am excellent at building and being crafty. At first no one was listening to me, so I started working on the base myself, and then the rest of the group started to build off of what I made. At the end of the day, our collaboration made a very impressive robot, but I could not have done it alone!