Reviewed the official APESS 2026 programme against the app as shipped.
The structure held up; several published facts and one scoring bug did not.
Fixes a real scoring defect: AddReview (what judges read) still carried
pre-pivot layer titles - "Reasoning policy", "Action contract", "Failure
modes", "AI-native redesign" - so judges scored "Skills" under the heading
"Reasoning policy". Root cause was two duplicated title lists that drifted
after the domain-node reshape, so both surfaces now render from a single
ADD_LAYERS constant and cannot diverge again.
Also removes dead classifier telemetry from the graded artifact: the ADD
printed "N frames - N nominal - N anomalous - N critical", but nothing has
called recordEvent since the simulator was deleted, so those counters were
permanently zero - and the vocabulary predates the pivot.
Corrects the schedule. The app advertised the lecture at 14:00, inside the
hackathon block; the programme puts it at 10:45-12:15 as a separate morning
session, with the hackathon 14:00-19:00. Moving it out recovers an hour,
which the new timings spend on the sensor work rather than setup.
Reframes the session around designing for failure, per the workshop premise
and the school's "proactive resilient systems" theme:
L3 becomes Policies & failure - which way each failure fails, with the
governing rule that a fail-safe must never quietly report "nominal"
L4 becomes where each decision runs - the degradation path, cloud to
on-board to fully offline, not just the happy path
L5 gains what the loop does when a cycle fails - stale reads, missed
ticks, partial data
Students arrive having spent a week on their own sensor work with these
boards, so the hands-on now points the agent at hardware they already
wired (discover the bus, read it, act on a threshold) instead of only
scrolling text, and the framing invites the domain they are already
measuring. The domain stays free-text.
Adds backup-uno-q.sh: boards are reflashed on the day and a week of
student work is irreplaceable. Denylist rather than allowlist, because we
cannot know where a given team put their data; verifies the archive is
readable and non-trivial before reporting success. Deliberately keeps the
App Lab examples dir - stock, but exactly what someone would edit in place.
Verified end to end: byte-identical restore of a real sketch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
