It is now the end of the ninth week of this summer research program. This summer research project is beginning to fully wrap up. Badges on the XO environment is coming along very nicely. We are very close to being able to fully realize the goal we had with badges but due to complications with the technology we had available to work with some of the grander ideas we had cannot be finished within just this summer. However our goal to have something that runs and stores open badges on the XO is well within our reach at this point. All the work with the code that I’ve elected to take on at this point was fully wrapped up this week. This week, with a lot of frustration, I merged in all of the changes I had made on my own branch into the main develop branch. There were a lot of frustrating conflicts that I had to figure out ways to work around so that the two sets of changes could work together. Then my time was spent preparing the equipment we needed in for the day at the camp where we were teaching sixth graders about programming. Then after the camp I participated in the hack-a-thon to catch up to where we needed to be on the project.

The next week we are working on wrapping up and putting the finishing touches on the badges and Lemonade Stand. Then we are putting together and rehearsing our presentations showing what we have done.