Operation Polar Eye

Which of the following statements better describes this project?

• A team of engineers and scientists, all with different strengths and skills are gathered to plan an expedition in an extreme environment. They will need to figure out how to make technology work in ways that it has not been used before.

• One leader is in charge of the expedition. The leader has a plan and knows how everything works. The leader chooses members to go with them, and they are all given clear instructions.

One goal of the program is to learn about polar bear behavior, but the primary goal is to

• Take temperature and weather measurements  to better understand the weather in the arctic.

• Track the formation of sea ice that is necessary for polar bears to be able to hunt.

This team of engineers and scientists are from Escondido, California. along with the technological challenges of their project, they will need to deal with other things they are not used to including

• weather that is 100 degrees colder than Escondido.

• working as a team.

The team spent months making a custom drone with lots of equipment and sensors that they tested ind flew in Escondido. what was the first major problem in the field?

• They forgot to bring it.

• It wouldn't fly.

How did they deal with the setback when their drone would not fly?

• They went home and cried in their soup.

• They spend 14 hours overnight working on fixing it.

Once the team fixed the problems with their drone, what other problems did they face?

• Intense winds and freezing temperatures.

• They ran out of ramen noodles.

Everything up there is white. It must be really hard for a drone pilot to properly scan an area on the ground. How did the drone overcome this problem.

• They just practiced a lot and repositioned the drone if it blew off course.

• The flight path was preprogrammed in, so they did not have to worry about human error during flight, and the drone just followed a flight path.

Which of the following best describes the reaction of team members at the end of the project?

• They were always confident the whole time, knowing that their training and knowledge prepared them. They were never afraid of making mistakes  because they worked hard to figure out everything in advance.

• They were happy, surprised and even relieved that everything had worked out. They did everything they said they were going to do, but there were always challenges to overcome and risks along the way. They were proud of what they had accomplished.