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mulletJeb · 01-21-2004, 05:17 PM

I'm sorry to go off-topic but I was wondering if you all might offer some insight.

My Computer Science 4 (high school) class is designed to be a volunteer service. We have a team of programmers, and we're working on project requests from local businesses and organizations. The teams have broken down into smaller groups and are working on their respective projects. The problem is that we have until June, and there's really no motivation to do work. There are also a few people that are having difficulty in this unstructured environment.
There is one person in charge of management; his duties include diplomacy of sorts with the companies and asking everyone for status reports. So it hasn't been very effective... This is class made up of high school seniors, less than 10 in total. Our teacher is taking a hands-off approach to this, but I think his intent was to get this as close to a real life situation as possible.

Any advice would be appreciated, or feel free to ignore this if it's too off-topic.

01-21-2004, 05:17 PM	#14 (permalink)
mulletJeb Insane	I'm sorry to go off-topic but I was wondering if you all might offer some insight. My Computer Science 4 (high school) class is designed to be a volunteer service. We have a team of programmers, and we're working on project requests from local businesses and organizations. The teams have broken down into smaller groups and are working on their respective projects. The problem is that we have until June, and there's really no motivation to do work. There are also a few people that are having difficulty in this unstructured environment. There is one person in charge of management; his duties include diplomacy of sorts with the companies and asking everyone for status reports. So it hasn't been very effective... This is class made up of high school seniors, less than 10 in total. Our teacher is taking a hands-off approach to this, but I think his intent was to get this as close to a real life situation as possible. Any advice would be appreciated, or feel free to ignore this if it's too off-topic.