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Robotics - M. Sherry presider D. Held notes Vex - logical programming - high school level -- long time spent just building even before the programing. iRobot 6th grade - Lego Robotics First Tech Challenge Clawbot - mechanical arms, capture cylinders - blog about experiences [|School of the Holy Child Student Robotics Video Blog].

School of the Holy Child 6th Grade Robotics Curriculum using Mindstorms NXT
 * Students use Carnegie Mellon's NXT Video Trainer as the "teacher". Teacher walks around class with guided skill sheets as students go through the Video Trainer projects.
 * 6th Grade Projects from video Trainer: Vacuum Challenge (touch sensor and loop block), Walled Maze Challenge (ultrasonic sensor), Intersections Challenge (light sensor), Automated Sentry 2 Challenge (Switch block), Line Following Challenge, Grand Challenge.
 * 7th Grade Projects
 * Grand Challenge Review
 * Clawbot Challenge (Students make alterations to the basic robot. They must add a third motor that functions as an arm. The robot is placed in a circle outlined with black tape. Four cylinders are placed in the circle. The robot is placed in the center of the circle. It must turn until it sees a cylinder, move until it is within the arm's reach, have the arm grab the cylinder and then move the cylinder outside the black circle, release the cylinder, return to the center of the circle and then repeat.)
 * Doggie Challenge: After completing the datahubs instructional videos on the Carnegie Mellon NXT Robotics Engineering Vol. 1 and 2, students must program the dog so that the dog follows the dog walker. When the walker goes too far ahead of the dog, the dog then barks and then speeds up until it's back within it's preferred distance from the dog walker.
 * Coal Mining Robot: There is a T-shaped "tunnel" that is recreated on the robotics table, where one side of the T is longer than the other. The coal-mining robot is built according to the CMU Robotics Engineering Vol. 1 and 2 building instructions. The robot must go to the top of the "T" tunnel, stop and turn its head left and right, calculate the distance each side of the tunnel and then move in the direction of the shorter tunnel. Teacher then changes the tunnel so that the other side is the shorter tunnel, proving the code therefore is using datahubs rather than just a move block to turn.
 * Gear Train Challenge - Lift a Book!: Teacher demonstrates the difference between having a larger gear on the motor vs a smaller gear. Discussion about gear ratios. Real world discussion about where gears are in the world and the difference between being built for speed vs. power. Then students must design a stable gear train (no building instructions) that lifts as heavy a load of books as possible within the class period.
 * Lego Green City in Trimester 3. Students create their own robots to meet as many of the 7 challenges of Green City. No building instructions!
 * [|School of the Holy Child Student Robotics Video Blog].: 7th Grade students maintain a weekly video blog of their robot's weekly progress. Videos uploaded to a HC Robotics channel and then embed the video into blogger.
 * Contact Michelle Sherry for any questions regarding Holy Child's MS robotics program.

Casterbot Lego model - move to competition - Can out - pushing out cans NXT Programs

robot.browning.edu

cs2n.org [|Quirkbot] on kickstarter

Bio-Mimicry???

[|Sphero: gosphero.com/education]

hummingbird used to build robots

[|sparki easy robot for everyone]$150

develop a mars rover

dash and dot --- makewonder.com camera sensor not cheap

wedo intro to robotics for younger kids 2nd and 3rd grade - good intro to NXT

arduino robot -

e.nable - 3d printing prosthetics https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102497715636887179986?cfem=1

Lego Robotics Education Support: https://education.lego.com/en-us/lesi/support

Seaperch - Government Grants for Underwater Robots http://www.seaperch.org/news?article_id=416

Notes from Julia Wilson: Blog recording progress of robots

Holy child class: 6th grade Lego robots, high school Lego tech challenge - Poughkeepsie day school irobot

green city challenge https://education.lego.com/en-us/lesi/support/product-support/green-city/green-city-challenge-set/building-instructions

http://www.finchrobot.com/

Casterbot http://www.nxtprograms.com/castor_bot/steps.html

NXT Video trainer through Carnegie Mellon

Vex? For high schoolers http://www.vexrobotics.com/vex/products/programming/

FRC massive robot challenge, amazing program but time space and money - this is the Javits center

Cs2n.org - free way to get on to NXT video trainer

http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/content/lego/curriculum/nvt2_index.htm

You spend a lot of time at first just building - don't take the Legos apart

http://www.gosphero.com - some coding - drag and drop (MacroLab) or text based (OrbBasic)

Hummingbird more crafting than robotics http://www.hummingbirdkit.com/faqs#nonkit

http://arcbotics.com/products/sparki/ sparki robot you can have them program in arduino

http://www.finchrobot.com - younger version of hummingbird

Snap circuit kits- worth more than expensive littlebits kits that don't really teach circuits

https://www.makewonder.com/robots/dashanddot robots for younger kids, works with iPads

We do is good for teaching simple machines https://education.lego.com/en-us/lesi/support/product-support/wedo/wedo-base-set-9580/building-instructions

Lily pads http://lilypadarduino.org/?page_id=192

from Andrew Abate (aabate@riverdale.edu) Anyone interested in creating a lego robothon where student teams design robots to complete challenges?