Minutes- July 11
In Attendance: Prof. Tejada, Lizz, Irina, Kate, Francesca, Michael, Eric, Mirza
Absent: Chelsea
1:30pm
– Teachers from Los Alisos came to talk to us
- Student Introductions
- Teacher introductions
- Reggie Snyder
- Introduction to robotics using Lego Mindstorms
- Project lead the way- introductory robotics, using vex and robot c
- Coach robotics competition team for Lego Mindstorms
- Most important experiences for kids- think of a goal for your robot and try to figure it out- having control
- Kids work in teams, largest group was 6, average was 4, sometimes worked in pairs
- Tasks are divided up by the kids- team manager, material specialist, programming specialist
- Understood that everyone is a builder, everyone builds, everyone contributes to programming, and everyone contributes to the programming
- Use the robots to teach science and math concepts such as
- Forces of motion
- Friction
- Types of energy
- What types of math do you need to determine wheel rotation
- How much weight can the robot carry and still go the same speed
- Taught how to use a pseudo-code, and then used drag and drop programming for lego-mindstorm
- This year teaching robot c, to prepare for 8th grade where they use robot c
- Reggie Snyder
3:20pm
– Scribbler Demonstration to teachers
3:30pm
– Everyone doing their own work
3:50pm
– Everyone needs to record observations from last week including:
- Date
- Person
- Demo
- What they said
- What they did
- What you did
- What you think about emotional state/ why?
4:00pm
– Demo at noon in front of the bookstore
– Supplies needed in general
- Posters
- Flyers
- Nametags
- Information cards
– Team Scribbler – Leader: Francesca
- Pong
- 4 robots
- Power strips
- Twister
- Poster
– Team Pleo – Leader: Irina
- 7 robots?
- Collars
- Name cards
- Survey
- Film it
- website
4:45pm
– Supplies from the car came! Crafts!
5:10
– Watch your batteries