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Re: Build a robot in an afternoon
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Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:31:37 GMT
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I did a little competition in 3 hours with my FLL team:
Circle containing 5-7 cans (some light, some heavy, some thin+tall, some
fat+short)
Robot starts in 8"x8" green box outside the circle.
Robot must enter the circle and push as many cans out of the circle as
possible
in 2 minutes. Robot may leave the circle ONLY to turn around and return
to the circle.
I would think this is very doable with no previous prep if you:
Provide a basic framework for the robot
Provide a simple template for the program or provide adult programming
mentors for each
team.
This is based on the Pitsco-Dacta "TEAM Challenge" curriculum.
-Peter
"Bob Turnbull" <rrturnbull@home.com> wrote in message
news:G2pqL2.4tB@lugnet.com...
> For a "Take Your Kids To Work Day", we are looking at providing an • afternoon
> of Lego Mindstorms for Grade 9 students (age 14-15). We should have about • 50
> kids which we are looking to split into 5 groups. Within each group we • want to
> have some kids working on a Web site and the rest on their robot (so we'll
> have 5 separate kits).
>
> We've got about 2.5 to 3 hours with the kids and are trying to think of • the
> best way to at least capture their attention and give them some insight • into
> what programming can do (we build software at my workplace)...After • providing
> a template to them (something basic that can make a robot move forward and
> maybe turn), we would let them try to alter it via both extra blocks and • extra
> programming (providing them with some basic commands).
>
> The robot concepts we've been toying with are Sumo bots, bots that run an
> "obstacle course" and bots that follow a track. We'd hopefully finish up • with
> some sort of contest.
>
> Has anyone put together something like this before? Our main concern is • that we
> just don't have much time with them in order to build something • interesting.
> Any other thoughts about the type of robots we can have them build and • how to
> determine a winner at the end?
>
> Thanks for any tips...
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