1/30/14 Mssion mastery is occurring! Some teams have mastered their first mission with an attachment that has been designed by the teams. It requires a lot of adjusting and planning to make this robot perform. Many rules to negotiate around and much tinkering of the robot (attachments too low/high, too much turning). I'm proud of all the teams for hanging in there and working through the design process!
10/17/13 Today, classes were given a sheet with all of the mission options, points and information. Teams were assigned one mission to master and to demonstrate it to the class. At the end of class, students were able to identify eight of the missions, understood how they worked and how they would be scored. We'll finish the rest when we come back from Conference Week.
10/10/13 Most teams are close to having their first version of the robot up and ready to drive around on the table. We've gone over two of the challenges, using the ipad to hover and show on overhead (giving everyone a bird's eye view of the table). We have more missions to introduce and the ipad scoring app has been shared. More details for teams to consider are coming this week. We talked about the rules (and loopholes).
10/3/13 5th grade has built most of the pieces seen in the video above and have started building Version 1.0 of their robot. Teams were very excited to dive in. Next week, we will continue to build and start organizing our mission strategies.
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A video showing how our Lego table will work:Resources for Lego Engineers:STEM CENTRIC Website: Intro to NXT, Move Blocks, Loops, Wait Blocks and Light Sensors. Great how-to videos!
Youtube video links to other teams that have attempted this: EXAMPLE 1 EXAMPLE 2 EXAMPLE 3 EXAMPLE 4 (not a live link yet) |