Over the past three weeks, students had the opportunity to work with Mr. Newman on Robotics. A couple of students shared their experience:
We started robotics by building our robot, that means that we attached wires, sensors, and lots of intricate parts. To accomplish our end goal we had to adjust and persevere when things didn't work how we wanted them to. It took us an entire time to finish but it was worth it in the end. We had to find all of the pieces we needed and everything had to be built very specifically or it wouldn't work properly.
Once we were done building our bot, we moved on to learning how to code with it. In our groups we used Mindstorm and iPads to code our bots. We explored the different things we could do with the bots and the coding. We experimented with face expressions, noises, and even sensors that would do different things depending on what you wanted it to do.
For example if you had a yellow sheet of paper and we would code the robot to stop at the yellow, or it could spin or even go backwards. Mr. Newman taught us to make our bots spin and even stop when it got too close to something it could also move either forward or backwards.
Then we sadly had to take apart our robots but we had a fun experience doing it and we learned a lot from it.
-Written by Juliet and McKenzie
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