Closing the Loop

This is the project's final reflection. You reflected inside every Test → Reflect → Iterate loop; now step back from the entire quarter and decide what carries forward.

A team that missed targets on Field Test Day but can clearly diagnose why demonstrates the same competency as a team that hit all three. Misses are valuable material here, not something to minimize.

A team that hit all three targets doesn't get to skip real reflection either — your model's actual limitations are still worth surfacing, win or lose.

Build

Prepare a short presentation or written defense — check with your instructor which format — covering all four of these:

1. Your Independent Variable

Which one you chose, and why — reference your actual Session 14–15 reasoning, not a retroactive justification that sounds better now.

2. What Your Data Showed

Summarize your calibration model from Sessions 20–22, and how it changed after Sessions 23–24's iteration.

3. Your Field Test Day Performance

State your results honestly, misses included. For any miss, give a specific diagnosis — a model limitation at the edge of your usable range, field conditions, inconsistent execution — not a vague "we were off."

4. Your Notebook's Evolution

Submit your full notebook, showing the model's evolution from your first Session 14–15 entry through today — not just a polished final summary.

Checkpoint

Before you present or submit, confirm:

• Your IV explanation references your actual original reasoning, not a rewritten version
• Every miss (if any) has a specific, named cause — not a vague explanation
• Your notebook is complete from Sessions 14–15 through today, not just a final-state summary

Reflection

Answer these on your own. Reflections are individual, even when the rest of the session was team work.

1. If you ran this entire project again from Session 14, what's the one thing you'd do differently, knowing what you know now?
2. Next quarter you'll design and build an arcade cabinet for a real client, on a CNC router. Which habit from this project do you most want to carry into it — and which one do you most need to leave behind?

Submit

Submit your presentation or written defense, and your complete design notebook.

Project Complete