Project Objectives and Milestones for Quarter.
Presentations of the Interactive MESA project were given to parents, students
and teachers
during a number of MESA events during the 1997/98 academic year.
On April 4, we launched the Interactive MESA Egg Drop Competition web page, along with the Egg Drop Design Studio. The MESA Day competitions were highlighted in the April 13, 1998 issue of the Engineering News with title: MESA DAY 98: MESA Cracks the Mystery of Engineering for Young Students.
On MESA Day, the students egg drop containers were weighed and measured. Digital images of the students were also taken and used to construct student home pages and thumbnail images for use in SpeakEasy. After the actual preliminary competitions, the students used the Interactive MESA Web site at: http://best.me/~mesa/cheer/design/design_w.html to go through an egg drop simulation, view their web pages and use the SpeakEasy system.
The milestones associated with launching the egg drop MESA Day competition were met.
Problems and Obstacles.
The computer facilities currently available at the target MESA schools are not readily
accessible to our MESA students. The classroom computer under the direction of
our teacher at Madison Middle School is not yet connected to Internet.
Programmatic Changes.
Given the problems with computer and Internet access at target MESA schools we
have had to focus on the UCB preliminary MESA competition to give students
access to our web site. We plan to follow up with the students who participated
on an individual basis and work with them to identify appropriate access for them.
Evaluation Data Collected.
Pre-questionnaires were given out.
Reports, Documents, Publications, or Other Work Produced.
Interactive MESA Design Studio at:
http://best.me/~mesa/cheer/design/design_w.html
Interactive MESA Resource Center at: http://best.me/~mesa/cheer/links/links.html
Interactive MESA Preliminary Competition Winners at: http://best.me.berkeley.edu/~aagogino/IU/winners.jr.html
Interactive MESA Student Web pages at: http://best.me.berkeley.edu/~aagogino/IU/students.html Engineering News article MESA DAY 98: MESA Cracks the Mystery of Engineering for Young Students.
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