Julien,
We're in a bit of a conundrum. Our student has put a lot of great effort into their project, made a lot of good progress, but there have been some significant problems.
It's looking like the student will probably not attain their primary goal, which would be okay by itself if the student was consistently working hard. However, the student was slow to start, slow for a week in the middle, and literally disappeared for the past two weeks only to show up two days ago. We have a detailed daily development log and have been interacting throughout but I would estimate they have "missed" about three weeks across the entire program timeframe and have worked outstanding for the remainder of time.
Do we reward the substantial hard effort or punish the delinquency instances? I'll have something more definitive by the end of the day, but any feedback would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Sean