Stage 3 and the Battle of the Sumo Bots

Dear Bloggers,

This week we had the grandfinals of the stage 3 Sumo-Bot challenge.

Students worked  in teams of two to design and build their Sumo-Bot Robots that:

  • had a downward facing light sensor and stayed within the black rectangle
  • Had a motorised offensive/defensive arm
  • had protective/ attacking non motorised structures
  • turned 180 degrees to start the battle.

Below are our class finalists

sumobots-128-of-29The grandfinals  were watched by all the students in Years 5 and 6…and it was very exciting and lots of fun.

Below is a video and lots of photos…enjoy.

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Mrs Garlick

Years 5 and 6 have the ‘Big Paper Plane Launch’ using the NXT launcher they made and modified.

Dear Bloggers,

Students in years 5 and 6 made NXT paper plane launchers. Many modifications and changes later the challenge was on to find a set of finalists who could use the device to launch the plane the greatest distance.

This is what the launcher looked like.

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The winners launched their plane 5.75m
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Thanks for calling by

Mrs Garlick

Years 5 and 6 Compete in the Regional Robodance on Saturday 30th July 2016

Dear Bloggers,

Last Saturday all students from Years 5 and 6 were invited to compete in the Sydney Regional Robodance  Competition at St Pius X College, Chatswood.  43 students and 15 teams from Gordon East Public School embarked upon the challenge of designing, programming and making robots that danced or performed to music. Below is what the judges were looking for.

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Drum roll………..It is with great pleasure that I announce the following 4 teams performed very well and will be representing Gordon East Public School in the NSW State Robocup Competition.

‘Simply Ammmazing’ with Alice, Meaghan and Mandana received third place prize overall and were the highest GEPS performing team. Well done girls.

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Here are some pictures of the girls and their  Bots in action.

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2nd highest Gordon East Public School performing team was the….The Disco Dancers….. with Grace and Risa.

Three lovely sequined ladies perched on the robots and carried out beautiful synchronised dancing keeping in  time with the music.

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untitled-0143rd Place from Gordon East Public School was ‘Crazy Blue’ with Genevieve, Eilidh and Annalisa. A lovely lady in feathers paraded on the robot and a clever robotic hand clapped her.

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There were three highly commended teams and Ms Simmonds and Mrs Garlick had the difficult task of choosing which one would progress to the State Competition. See for yourself how difficult our job was.

Jawz was a scary shark robot with menacing jaws that snapped open and closed.  The music was from the Jaws music and Alex and Helena did a fabulous job.shark-078

‘Salute’ with Teisha and Carolyn was very impressive as the robots saluted and danced around.Robodance regional 2016-150 Robodance regional 2016-147The ‘Nano Bots’ with Olivia and Claudia saw the girls dancing with their robots as their pirate ship robots navigated the seas of the dance floor. Tremendous job girls.Robodance regional 2016-111 Robodance regional 2016-110 Robodance regional 2016-109

Drum roll………………And the fourth team to represent GEPS at the State titles is………NANO BOTS.

Now let’s have a close look at all our wonderful GEPS competitors  as everyone did a great job and hopefully had lots of fun.

Mr Scruff was Aidan’s bot and he was helped on the day by Ben.  Mr Scruff had some snappy moves and performed well.

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The Hungry Hunters with Josie and Chloe (unfortunately Charlotte was unwell) were very creative and looked terrific as they sought food on the dance floor. Watch out for the guy with the spear!!!

untitled-019 untitled-018 untitled-017‘Dance Corp’ with Nick, Jack B and Darcy had a hovering robot that moved in an innovative way…wow

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‘Racetrack Rumble’ with Ben, Mitchell, Cheyanne and Nikka were a very resilient and hard working team.  In round 1 their racetrack came apart.  Not deterred they industriously fixed their props and had a great round 2 as their robot went around the track. Nika composed the music himself in ‘Garage Band’.  He is a boy of many talents.

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Charlie, Evan and Sebastian were ‘Smashing Sailors’ as their beautifully made boats floated synchronistically down the dance floor.  They even had an origami folded dragon head on the bow of one of the boats.  Fabulous work boys.

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‘Flying Piranhas’ with Leo and James had great under the sea props and the robots were very clever as they designed and built a crab and a sting ray. Ben was a fantastic helper on the day.

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Wow that was a long post but it really was a fantastic day full of so much fun and learning!  Thanks for calling by.

Kind regards

Mrs Garlick