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Current Assignments:

5/31 Cylinder Irrigation Engineering Challenge

5/11 Start a scratch project of YOUR CHOICE. (Must be school appropriate.) Start with a simple concept and build on it. Build one action at a time. Get your code to do one thing, then code a second thing, then a third thing, then a fourth thing, etc. You will be graded on knowing what the code does in your program. You will have to explain the parts I ask about. If you don't know, the part I ask, you will earn no credit. If you don't know what the code does, you borrowed it. You will only earn credit for code you understand.

Tank Tutorials

Here is an idea if you can't think of one: Dragons and Butterflies

Here is another idea: Space Shuttle Rescue Rescue a spacewalking astronaut from an alien ship.

5/10 Center-Pivot Irrigation Engineering Challenge You took notes on how to do this. Do the calculations and turn them in. WORK ON A SCRATCH PROGRAM TO SHOW ME WHEN FINISHED WITH THE CALCULATION.

Snake1 4/29

Robo 500 Level 1

Labyrinth Challenge

T 100 180 270 110 - Due 3/1 using the mandatory format

Turns 90 10 - Due 2/26 using the mandatory format

Determine Turn Circle Circumference - Due 2/24 Redo of Feb 19 with a mandatory format.

Calculating Turn Lesson

__Feb 23__ - 90 and 10 degree Turn Calculations. Feb 19 - Determine the exact Turn Circle Circumference of the Robot. Feb 17 - Finish putting the Labyrinth challenge on your wiki. Feb 11th - Have 2nd and 3rd turn solutions on your Labyrinth page. Feb 9th -Have solution to the first turn on your Labyrinth page. Feb 5th - Cropped screen shot of at least one turn showing a marker. Feb 3rd -Wikispace Pages Setup

From January 20th to the 29th Students will build skills using a virtual robot. Students will program a virtual robot to complete as many challenges as they can. This experience and exploration is necessary for students to develop a base of skills from which to work. Through this students will learn their way around the programming software and virtual robot software before we added another level of complexity. On Feb 2nd students will introduced to using a Wiki. On Feb 3rd students will start a Robotics Notebook on a Wiki where students will show the fruits of their labor. Student grades will come from their work posted on their Wiki. Assignments will be given each day. Students will use their work from assignments titled with dates to complete assignments with larger word titles. Assignments with titles have mandatory formats.

STEM Robotics is a skills and project based course. Learning skills and completing projects doesn't produce weekly grades. There is no textbook or page numbers. Grades are due when skills are learned and projects are completed. Grades occur when big chunks when projects or challenges are completed and this rate is determined by how fast the group learns. There is a bit of trial and error (iteration) in this type of learning. To facilitate this, grades come in clumps rather than even intervals. Students who don't work consistently end up with a lot of bad grades all at once. Students who don't work until they have earned an "F" in the grade book will really put themselves behind.

Future assignments being developed: Labyrinth Robo 500 Level 1

[|Middle School Resources Scratch] Quick G-Code Challenges Doomsday Clock Cryptocurrency

**Robot Control Programming:** http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/previews/nxt_products/robotics_eng_vol_1/preview/content/projects/hallbot/forward/wheeldist/index.htm http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/previews/nxt_products/robotics_eng_vol_1/preview/content/projects/hallbot/turn/index.htm http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/previews/nxt_products/robotics_eng_vol_1/preview/content/projects/hallbot/turn/measureturn/index.htm

Check this out: https://code.org/starwars

Scratch Programming Toolbox
2015 Assignments.

Editing Sites

Self Taught Robotics

http://www.engineergirl.org/what_engineers_do/WhatTheyDo/16999.aspx

Worm Brain LEGO Robot

Welcome to Mr. Cottrell's STEM Class's Website
•In this class you will be part of a team. •Your team will be programming a robot to make it do things. •You will learn how to program robots by reading slides and watching videos. •Questions will lead you through the material and check if you are understanding it.

Behavior Expectations: 1. Do the Right Thing! (follow directions and procedures) 2. Take care of yourself (build your future and stay safe) 3. Take care of others (respect them and their stuff) 4. Take care of the place (and it’s stuff) 5. Give Your Personal Best! (start by staying on task)

Behavior Consequences: •Verbal warnings•Demerits •Parent communication •Referral to the Principal

Warning: a few demerit earning behaviors •Horseplay •Teasing •Talking out •Being out of your seat (especially at the bell) •Entering the backroom.

Procedures: •Tardiness is being outside the door when the bell rings. •Enter the classroom quietly and immediately go to your seat. •Materials Managers will get robots and parts as needed by signing them out and back in. Immediately after being seated: 1. Find the day's assignment on the classes wiki page. 2. Log into your wiki. 3. Open the Robotics Engineering lesson you are working on. 4. Open the LEGO programming software.

Internet Use: •The class’s wiki, your wiki, and the online grades are the only sites you can visit unless directed otherwise. •Going to other websites will earn a demerit. •The Internet will be used for class purposes only.

Culminating Robotics Projects
Free Version of the LEGO Robotic-G software: [|Component Design Ideas]

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Robot C information

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