Hit That Ball

Dear Bloggers,

One of the Stage 3 students’ activities was to build a robot with a swinging arm.  The robot had a light sensor and was programmed to hit a ball with its arm.  But things became more challenging as the robots were programmed to hit the red ball and beep and reverse away from the red one.  Fast workers determined how to program the following combinations: hit the blue ball and not the red, hit either ball and finally to refuse to hit any ball.  The class then became creative and designed games using their sporting robot.  ‘Knocking Over Lego People Bowling’ was a popular game.

Have a look at the photos below.

Sorry I am moving around in time with my posts but I am trying to backtrack and include some posts about work the children completed before the blog was created.  I promise once I am caught up that I will be posting chronologically.

 

Please call by again

Mrs Garlick

Green City Videos from other schools

Dear Bloggers,

Other schools have completed the Green City Challenge and here are some of the videos which I have carefully checked from the inter net.  Have a watch if you are interested.

overview of all the Challenges

Raising solar panel onto roof

Deploying the new smokestack the hard way

All challenges at level 1

Kind regards

Jenny Garlick

 

5/6H fix the Dam

Dear Bloggers,

5/6H did a wonderful job of fixing the Green City Dam.  Have a look for yourself.

The videos below show the most successful fixing of the dam.  This robot closed the dam, released and caught the energy brick and almost returned to base.  The next video shows the class effort.

 

The best dam closers (wmv file)

Best dam closer mp4

Best dam closer mov

 

video of 56H closing dam (wmv file) 

 5/6H close the dam for MAC

Thanks for calling by

Mrs Garlick

 

 

 

 

 

Green City Challenge – 5/6L Fix The Dam

Dear Bloggers,

Today 5/6L started the Green City Challenge.  The Green City is environmental utopia where everything is powered by clean energy and is self sustaining.  That is it will be when 6 major challenges are completed.

The first is to fix the hole in the dam.

The students, working in pairs, created their own solutions to built and program their robots to fix the dam.  When the robots pushed the ‘plug’ into the hole in the dam a green energy brick was released.  Students then returned their robots and energy brick to the base area.

This is an aerial view looking down onto the dam.

 

Here is the dam from front on.  The grey post in the middle of the water has to be pushed into the hole in the bridge.  This moves the black rod which inturn releases the energy brick.

 

The yellow brick in the front left hand side of the picture is the energy brick that has been released.

Here is the video of their work – please click link below

Video 5/6L fix the mighty dam for windows

Video 5/6L Fix the Green City Dam for Mac

See the photos below of the wonderful job the students did.  Please double click on a photo that you like to see the full size version.  Unfortunately the square thumbnails cropped some of the previews in unfortunate ways (eg partial chopping off of heads) but rest assured the whole photo is there when you double click on it.

We had had lots of fun and learnt alot!!

 

Mrs Garlick