We had an extremely productive day today. We solved three robot missions on the game board, and are quickly getting a better idea of how to drive the robot. We have more progress to make, especially learning how to use sensors that help guide the robot more precisely. But even without the sensors, we have succeeded at measuring distances, estimating angles, and programming with 'dead reckoning'.
We have four meetings left before the competition season begins. That's not much time. It is essential that the students make progress on parts of the team tasks at home during the week, otherwise we will not be ready to compete in a month. Each student was sent home with an assignment: either to develop ideas for text and graphics for the Project, or for the Core Values. We need to make a poster for each of these. Your student should have a draft version of their poster done BEFORE we meet next week. Then everyone will comment on the text and graphics ideas, we will do a round of revision or further research, then we will get the posters finished two to three weeks from now. Please be sure to have your kid work on their poster assignment. I gave each student some information of what is expected for this, that can be used for ideas. Feel free to email me if you need additional details or feedback. I will be checking in mid-week to ask for a progress report. We cannot compete unless students make progress on this mid-week.
I will send around a video by email of a successful robot mission
For future reference, here are instructions for building various features onto the robot base.
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