Thank you all for your replies!
In summary:
Sumo
Mazes
dancing - me programming one dance to music and the students trying to copy my dance (program) and making their own
and everything mentioned below (see email below)
various line challenges
Anything that uses the sensors (like getting your robot to move when people clap)
Here's the last question:
I need to learn now how to use the blue tooth. I'm very intrigued about its possibilities.
Are there any good sites for that? Do I need a palm smart phone?
Thanks all!
Kathy
Kathy Molina
Science 6
Robotics - Horticulture 6-8
HB Woodlawn
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>>> "Swayne, Dominic - swaynedd" <[log in to unmask]> 3/7/2011 5:44 PM >>>
Kathy/All,
I've used Sumo wrestling as well - I make the students do all the building
and programming. If you explain the challenge and keep the matches short
you'll capture the audience. It is a fairly complex problem:
1. Move around but stay on the table
2. Look for the other robot
3. React to the other robot - AND - stay on the table
That said, there is a lot of research done by Resnick out of the MIT Media
Lab that says you need to make the challenge/activity relevant to the kids
doing the activity. If you have enough robots/kids give them a choice.
Some ideas:
1. Coordinated/choreographed dance routine with multiple robots
2. A theater/play
3. Musical instruments/band
4. A zoo/animal that looks and moves correctly
5. Remote control robots - using bluetooth
6. Solve a maze with unknown parameters
There's no reason you can't have all these go on simultaneously. The
programming concepts required are similar and can be as simple or complex
as they can accommodate. You don't need to be an expert in any of them to
facilitate the kids' learning.
Create a few challenges that will give them the skills they need to do the
challenge they want - most of these are covered in the tutorials included
with the Lego Educator tutorials.
You can do some pretty interesting artificial intelligence programming
that can get at very advanced and abstract programming concepts.
Nick
On 3/7/11 4:19 PM, "Kathy Molina" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Any other ideas besides sumo? Has anyone done a maze challenge? I agree.
>My kids really love sumo and get so into it.
>
>Kathy Molina
>Science 6
>Robotics - Horticulture 6-8
>HB Woodlawn
>703-228-6363
>
>GO BEARS! GO NAVY! GO BOWS!
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>>>> Baya Harry P. <[log in to unmask]> 3/7/2011 11:24 AM >>>
>I let the kids pick their own demonstration show with the robots. They
>do indeed love to have the robots fight each other. It's never looked
>particularly interesting to me, or to many spectators, but the kids
>really get into it. Last year one of the robots had two "fighting
>modes" and used a button to toggle from one to the other. When their
>robot was being pushed all around they pushed the button and it became
>the pusher. This was one of the big events of the day for the kids
>doing robots.
>
>Harry Baya
>Instructional Technologist
>Emory & Henry College
>276-944-6809
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>From: First Lego League in Virginia and DC
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brandy bergenstock
>Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 4:29 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [VADCFLL-L] Robotics camp using FLL
>
>My team is looking forward to doing a sumo contest in two weeks. You
>teach/learn about the light sensor and then you let the kids design a
>robot that can knock another robot out of a ring. The guide I'm using,
>"Educate NXT", has them learning why the robot is acting the way it does
>(i.e staying inside the black circle.). The teacher can allow the
>students to program the robot, or make a standard program and allow
>everyone to use that one. You can also revisit this idea at another time
>by adding, touch sensors and ultrasonic sensors to the mix and then
>letting them battle it out again. Tthe idea of robot battles is VERY
>attractive to the kids, so if it were me, I would find some time to fit
>it in the camp.
>Regards,
>Brandy
>
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>From: Michael Brown <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Sat, March 5, 2011 12:29:56 PM
>Subject: [VADCFLL-L] Robotics camp using FLL
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>Camp Occohannock on the bay is getting together a robotics camp for one
>week this summer. I have been asked to help out, we may be pulling in
>the FRC team 1893.
>
>So are there any ideas or course structure around a one week robotics
>camp?
>
>We have two NXT kits and parts, two or three PC's and one table and
>field set up. What else would you recommend for a week camp?
>
>http://www.ootbay.org/
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