Bowl Project

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Bowl Project

• Team members
• Kenny Bailey
• Rich Charts
• Chad Loewenstine
• Phil Zink

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Bowl Project

• The Bowl project consists of the Quiz Bowl, Spell
  Bowl, and Math Bowl currently.
• The projects involved focus on learning through
  competition.

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Spell Bowl

• Spelling competition in which students write down
  the spellings after they are spoken and used in
  context.
• The competition consists of 8 rounds of 7 words.
• KES competes at grade levels 4-5 with teams of
  8-10 students.
• Our goal is to help students prepare for the
  annual competition.

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How Spell Bowl Works
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This is Shay
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The Spell Bowl Simulator

• A web based Java applet.
• Uses MySQL database software.
• Audio created with ATT Natural Speaking
  Engine.
• Plays an audio file of the word and accompanying
  sentence.
• Student inputs spelling.
• Student spelling versus correct spelling
  displayed immediately.
• Total results displayed at end of last round

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Roadblocks

• Problems with available hardware
• Security with Java and Databases

Whats Next?

• Extended Statistics
• Improved GUI
• Login/Authentication
• Web page Options

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Quiz Bowl

• Quiz Bowl is an 8 player buzzer system
• Students can compete with each other in teams or
  individually
• Teacher can control time to answer and when
  buttons are active.

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Quiz Bowl

• The Quiz Bowl is currently being repaired and
  redesigned.
• New features are being added also to improve the
  user experience.

Franks Ass!
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Future Projects

• Math Bowl
• Similar to Spell Bowl
• Online multiple choice math quiz

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Questions