• Evaluated total bug submissions per student for the 1040 classes' extra credit
  • Contacted 1040 instructor about submissions
  • Wrote our progress report for the semester
 
  • Finished essays for and submitted Grace Hopper scholarship applications
  • Classified bugs and searches from Focus Group and 1040 students
  • Updated CSS for Bug Catcher
  • Reviewed and consolidated notes from the second focus group
  • Began redesigning the Hangbug game
 
  • Made final preparations for the focus group
  • Worked on the CSS for BugCatcher
  • Conducted our second focus group
 
  • Fixed The Bug Theater's mysql server
  • Helped organize and run a Bug Catcher competition for Girl Scouts
  • Booked room, sent out notice, and wrote more questions for second focus group
 
  • Fixed inconsistencies in the site's buttons
  • Analyzed data from the 1040 students' submissions
  • Began applications for Grace Hopper Scholarships
  • Wrote questions for second focus group session
 
  • Printed Bug Catcher code for peer review
  • Wrote new recommendations in C and PHP
  • Created a webpage to teach future researches how the Bug Theater site works
  • Began applications for graduate school
  • Met with Christa to talk about Bug Catcher competitions
  • Applied to attend OurCS in October
  • Created new problems for Bug Catcher
 
  • Submitted proposal to Grace Hopper Conference
  • Created more problems for Bug Catcher
  • Created a new section of the Bug Theater website for students to post and share advice about classes. A student can submit advice, which will then go on a waiting list to be approved by a researcher. Once it is approved the advice appears publicly. Public advice can be searched by class or instructor, or just browsed through.
  • Added page counters to track several different areas of the site. They can be viewed on the Staff Resources page. (Visits to any page in the dev folder will not be recorded.)
  • Wrote new recommendations in C and C++
 
  • Began writing submission for Grace Hopper Conference
  • Learned how Bug Catcher's problems and bugs are organized and run
  • Wrote a new problem for Bug Catcher
 
  • Tested Bug Catcher software again
  • Made several usability changes to the Bug Catcher software
  • Organized and conducted a Bug Catcher competition
  • Began analyzing data from competition
 
  • Contacted local teachers, facebook groups, homeschool groups, church groups, and boy scout troops about the Bug Catcher competition
  • Visited local high schools to hand out information about the competition

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    The CREU Bugflix Team:

    Lisa Reynolds
    Mallory Smith
    Nick Stradford
    Heather Wilson

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