Savita,

Sorry, but my last try wasn't finished and didn't have the link.

This is my team's website -> http://www.cougarrobot.com/  You might take a
look at "Slide deck from our 2010 Advanced Programming Workshop" on the
front page.  My kids present an all day (8 hour) workshop that goes through
all of the stuff on the slides.  It's pretty focused on NXT-G programming
and design for competition in FLL.  The workshop format is pretty much 1 or
2 slides then do an exercise, repeat (all day long).  By the end of the day
the kids have a bunch of "tools" in their kits that are useful for
accomplishing competition oriented tasks and a couple of sets of principles
and strategies that can keep them focused on doing the right things.

Jamie Diamond
coach, Cougar LEGO Robotics Team
Columbus Ohio.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Savita Sethi <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>  Thanx Brandy. The timing of this could not have been better. My team is
> still continuing to meet on the incomplete missions and also come up with a
> better robot design and also do missions with a better programming style.
> Some of this is also based on Lessons learned.
> Yesterday during our class, some of them were having difficulties writing a
> line follow program.
> So if any of you can share with us the links on either basic programming or
> a better programming style or a good robot design etc., that will really
> help.
> I don't want the kids to copy or download programs from net only to have
> their missions work.
> Thanks for all the help.
> Savita
> Bricketeers
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:12:28 -0800
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [VADCFLL-L] measured turns
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> I made this sheet today because I work with kids from varying degrees of
> mathematical backgrounds.  They were not getting the lesson plan devised by
> either the Educate NXT curriculum or the C.M. robotics engineering vol 1.
> So I created a sheet that I hope plainly list the step involved in figuring
> out how to make calculated, measured turns.
>  It does not include a lesson plan for the worksheet, but that is pretty
> easy-
>  Get your kids to create an attachment for the edu-bot that will hold a
> marker in place over the middle of a wheel.
>  Get them to create a program that will allow the robot to spin/pivot in a
> full circle. (Marker is over the outside wheel spinning. Only one motor
> should be running so the robot circles around it's one inside wheel.)
> Once you do that, you will have all the parts you need to run a course and
> make measured turns using the worksheet I created.
>    A version of this lesson is in the Educate NXT, but in the author's
> obvious superior math skills, he failed to include the equation on HOW to
> find the distance traveled by the wheel, which you need to know in order to
> convert into rotations.  The Carnegie Mellon included it, and did a good job
> of stopping the videos so I could talk about what was happening, but many
> kids didn't understand WHY it was happening. The worksheet they created
> didn't have steps, which my student forgot instantaneous to shutting off the
> video that explained it, so I spent this morning trying to make one up
> myself.  Hope it helps someone else as well!
> If the attachment doens't come through, please email me and I will send it
> to you.
>  Regards,
> Brandy
>
>
> ------------------------------
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit
> https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave
> the list".
> VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ADMIN-L. Visit
> https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-admin-l.html to subscribe.
> ------------------------------
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit
> https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave
> the list".
> VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ADMIN-L. Visit
> https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-admin-l.html to subscribe.
>

-- To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list".

-- VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ADMIN-L. Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-admin-l.html to subscribe.