Years 5 and 6 Use Blue Tooth and Have A Car Rally, Do The Green City Challenge and Get A Bug Out Of A Box.

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Jennifer Garlick

Dear Bloggers,

Last week was VERY busy for all stage 3 Lego Robotics Students.

The students who attended the Gifted and Talented Science Incursion continued their work using blue tooth and we had an interclass car rally. This involved programming a Master Robot to use blue tooth to control the Slave. Below is a picture of the students with their Master Bots getting them ready for the rally.

The slaves were the racing bots.

The audience were captivated…I love their smiles and enthusiasm.

Whilst this was happening two other students groups were carrying out the Green City Challenge and here is the video of them solving the problem of the old chimney stack on the factory and replacing it with a new one.

Still more was happening as the rest of the class was involved in the ‘Get The Bug Out of the Box Challenge’.

Using a light sensor only the children were required to get their Bug-Bots out of the box as quickly as possible. There were three different boxes and the Bugs started in different places in each and the winning team wrote separate programs for each box.

Thanks for calling by

Mrs Garlick

Remote Controlled Robots

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

Dear Bloggers,

4/5y, 5/6L and 5/6H designed, built and programmed remote controls for their robots.

The photos below show 4/5y practising for the up and coming ‘Robot obstacle Course’

Thanks for calling by

Mrs Garlick

Sometimes things really are ‘black and white’

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

Dear Bloggers,

This week stage 3 children were challenged to write a program that allowed their robots to progress and stop through a series of black lines.

To do this students had to add a light sensor and use the view menu on their robot to read the amount of light (%) reflected from the black and white surfacse. Using this knowledge they programmed their robots.

light sensor must be facing downwards

Using the light sensor in the view menu to measure and read the amount of reflected light.

See below the video of the robot in action

Video for windows

Video for Apple

Thanks for calling by

Mrs Garlick

Hit That Ball

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

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

5/6H fix the Dam

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

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

4/5Y Fix The Green City Dam

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

Dear Bloggers,

4/5Y were next to try and close the dam. Have a look at the photos and videos.

Video of 4/5 Y closing the dam for windows

45Y Dam closing video for apple

click the above link to view the video

Green City Challenge – 5/6L Fix The Dam

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Jennifer Garlick

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!!