NEIT2008-5A



from Robin Newman RoboExpo

Pico Cricket -good kit for lower grades. Icon based Not strong on vehicle stuff or moving things. Hope.

Mindstorms What is your goal. programming. building. Build simple things so kids can focus on sensors.

Logo blocks-no longer supported.

Lego provides blueprints Follow blueprints. Simple Machines.

Build greenhouse (Karen)p

Visit Hope at Spence and Ellen Baru

Logo foundation Vision education Robo cup

Wellsley college http://www.wellesley.edu/Physics/robots/studio.html

stager.org/lego

NSSYL Hardware & software

1 kit ($250) per 2 students. NSSYL

not from the session but useful info i collected from the listserv a few weeks earlier....don

Summary of Robotics in other Independent Schools:

1. Is robotics taught by your science or technology faculty or both?

2. Do you enter local, national or International competitions? Which ones?

3. Do you offer an after school in robotics? is it free? if not what is the cost per student? If so, is it related to curriculum? Do you enter competitions?

4. At what grade do you introduce robotics into your curriculum?

5. What program(s) and platforms do you use to teach robotics?

6. Do you have and/or what is the scope and sequence for your robotics program ?

7. Do you have a separate robotics budget? figure?

Demographics: 13 schools replied; Spence, Marymount, Nightingale Bamford, Hewitt, and Greenwich Academy, Collegiate, St. Bernards, Staten Island Academy, Rye Country Day, Saddle River, Churchill, Poly Prep, Columbia Grammar and Prep,

two one one-to-one laptop schools replied.

Girls –5 Boys- 2 Co-Ed-6 K-12 –12 K-8 –1

Competitions: 5 out of 13 enter competitions (local only).

After school offerings:

6 schools, PolyPrep (pay 200$ per student) and St. Bernards (free) and Churchill (free) and Collegiate (pay) and Hewitt (pay). Greenwich Academy (pay) CGP cancelled their afterschool offering but there was a fee.

Programs used in order of popularity: Mindstorms LogoBlocks (now problematic with Leopard operating system) Microworlds Robotics Robo Lab Super Cricket Super Logo

Budget: 10 schools use the Tech budget, 1 the science budget. 1 the after school budget, I school undetermined

Scope and sequence:

Rye Country day 6th and 7th and 8th grade Sadle River no Marymount 3rd, 7th and 12th grade elective Nightingale Bamford 3rd and 7th Spence 3rd and 7th PolyPrep 3rd Churchill 5th Hewitt 9th St. Bernards 5th thru 8th Collegiate- Lower school Staten island Academy Middle and Upper school elective Greenwich Academy 7th Columbia Grammar and Prep – program defunct