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Robot Game and Project describes the Project, the Robot Game and how to build the table, along with some judging information. This is a good place to start if you're curious.
- The Project (research on Natural Disasters)
- Robot Game (a 2.5 minute challenge with over 20 missions to be solved by building and programming a robot)
- FLL Core Values
- FLL 2013 Nature`s Fury - Robot Game Missions EN This 8.5 minute video goes over all the challenges. Watch this with your child, let them explain it.
- Ask kids about what they did at practice.
- How are they solving this problem?
- Why are they doing something this particular way?
- What's been challenging?
- What's been hard?
- What did they get wrong or fail at (we learn from mistakes, it's the best kind of learning, it's important for kids to know it's okay to fail as long as they use that to shape their next try)
- It's important to get them to answer in more than one or two word replies. A big portion of our scores at competition comes from interacting with the judges
- Help us to find us experts we might talk to about Natural Disasters (reservists that might help with natural disasters, first responders, NOAA, FEMA, etc)
- T-Shirts. We have T-Shirts from last year that we didn't use. We're hoping to get one of the kid's design and maybe create an iron before the competition. It would be great if someone could take on that project.
- Robot Game Updates
- 2013 NATURE'S FURY Challenge
- FLL Core Values
- Project FAQ
- Team Profile Sheet this is from 2012, will update when available.
- Combined Rubrics How we are judged on all aspects except the Robot Game.
- When: November 9, 2014 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Where: Osbourne Park High School 8909 Euclid Avenue * Manassas VA 20111
- Resources:
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:35 | Core Values | Room 1503 |
| 10:04 | Research | Room 1113 |
| 10:32 | Practice | Table Eng/Math |
| 11:11 | Round 1 | Table Eng/Math |
| 12:00 | Robot Design | Room 1047 |
| 1:10 | Round 2 | Table Sci/Tech |
| 1:35 | Round 3 | Table Sci/Tech |
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10:18 | Research | Room 113 |
| 10:39 | Practice | Table Newton/Einstein |
| 11:04 | Round 1 | Table Sci/Tech |
| 11:18 | Core Values | Room 1502 |
| 12:00 | Robot Design | Room 1048 |
| 1:16 | Round 2 | Table Newton/Einstein |
| 1:59 | Round 3 | Table Sci/Tech |
Plan:
As we approach the competition it would be great to have as many parents attend as possible. We'd like to have the teams be able to demonstrate their knowledge of the robot, thinking for various design decisions, explain the programming and strategy for missions to as many people as possible for practice.
- Research project updates
- Practice judging
Plan:
- Game strategies
- Research Project solution
Actual:
Robodolphins:
- Research project work with help from Mrs. Bishop and Mrs. Schoolcraft
- Decided on a community (Ocean City, MD)
- Decided on a problem (Lack of shelter and supplies due to flooding)
- Decided on a solution (Create a survival kit wish essential supplies that can be staged for Tsunami or Flooding)
- Continued work on first mission, getting robot to safe zone at end of match (we're working on attachments to carry pets, supplies and a person to base with us for extra points)
Dolphinbots:
- Team building exercises with Mrs. Vongsouvane
- Work on programming missions
Plan:
- Game strategies
- Research Project Discussion
Actual:
Robodolphins:
- went over more of the mechanics of movement for programming, will finally program in earnest next week
- some mission strategy
Dolphinbots:
- started to program the bot
- tested on the mat
Plan:
- Finish robot building
- Introduction to dead reckoning with robots (e.g. go this far forward, turn this much left, go forward this far, etc)
- Introduction to programming (maybe Pi, certainly how to get accurate distances)
- Game strategies
Actually:
Robodolphins:
- had to fix the robot their coach broke with his face on the way to practice.
- went through a root cause analysis to help them decide what the actual problem is.
Dolphinbots:
- worked on finishing the robot
- rotated through centers to work on building, strategy and the project.
We'll have to rotate the kids through various activities after team building because there's only so many hands that can effectively get on the robot at one time. We need to get the robot built so we can start learning how to program and then start tackling these missions.
Plan:
- Team building (all)
- Start building basic robot
- introduction to programming.
Actually:
- Team building (everyone held hands and had to get a hula hoop from one side of the line to the other)
- Started building the basic robot. We chose a new design for the robot, mainly because it took Mr. Schoolcraft an hour to build on his own and it's split up into 6 modules which makes it easier to divide the work up among the kids. 1 module is pretty lengthy though, it's the third motor with gears, a couple light sensors, and tie ins to the other motors. That needs to get finished and hopefully we can start programming next week.
- Didn't get any programming done.
- Mr. Lamb came in and spoke with both teams separately to talk about natural disasters. He covered types of disasters, what kind of aid needs to get in place and how to get that aid there.
- Every student should come to practice next week with:
- a specific community that could be effected by the natural disaster the team chose (Dolphinbots: Blizzard, Robodolphins: Tsunami)
- a problem (with some research to back it up), you can find more information starting on page 2 of the 2013 FLL Challenge, Nature's Fury
- the start of a solution
- Design a T-Shirt for the team (optional)
- Talk to the kids about their robot, ask them what they built, what they thought etc.
- Watch the YouTube videos from the September 23, 2013 meeting if you haven't already.
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We'll have to rotate the kids through various activities after team building because there's only so many hands that can effectively get on the robot at one time. We need to get the robot built so we can start learning how to program and then start tackling these missions.
Plan:
- Team building (all)
- Start building basic robot
- Game strategy session (Viewing current game video, reviewing rules, viewing a few teams from last year, etc)
Actually:
- Team Buildling (Using 5 decks of cards and not the boxes, build the tallest house of cards in 10 minutes. Can not bend/tape or otherwise damage cards.)
- Watched several YouTube Videos:
- WATCH FLL 2013 Nature`s Fury - Robot Game Missions EN This is all the missions that are available to solve in the 2 1/2 minute challenge.
- I wanted to show the kids how other teams have solved other problems in the past, and specifically call out certain things (the bullets under each video link)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsRm_6mNp40
- sensors (line following)
- multiple missions before returning to base
- using the wall to make sure you're straight
- delivery "devices"
- swapping out attachments
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsRm_6mNp40
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hha7VbNpg4g
- huge robot
- takes apart pieces as it goes
- delivery devices
- multiple missions at a time
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-JgcFt7zj0
- competitions are LOUD
- only 2 people at the table
- catapult for bowling
- time keeper
- gracious professionalism (how?)
- scoring review
- Split into our teams and started to build or work on the engineering notebooks.
Plan:
- Meet the teams & coaches.
- Team building.
- Intro to FLL.
- Overview of robot challenge.
Actually:
- Did what we set out to do :)
- Due: 9/30/2013 Brainstorm at least 5 ideas about communities and natural disasters for the research project. The following resources may be helpful:
- Nature's Fury FLL 2013 This is the Project (and Robot Game) official challenge. It includes a list of acceptable Natural Disasters to use (pg 3)
- Nature's Fury Topic Guide has a bunch of resources to use including whom you might be able to talk to and why.
- Here are some maps of Active natural disasters: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/disaster-relief
- [Optional] - Due: 10/07/2013 Create a T-Shirt design for your Team or OBES Robotics.
- Watch one or two of the youtube video's we watched at practice with your kid.
- The one explaining the missions is 8 minutes long, but it's probably the most important. Ask them to describe some of the missions and tell you why they're there. e.g. The house on stilts to protect from flooding, or, Bringing supplies to staging/safe areas.
- The other ones are all between 3 & 4 minutes long, they show how some of the best teams do. The point isn't to compare us to them, but to show how many people solve problems different and give them some ideas to use when they start building their own robot. Pick one of the videos and a bullet point or two and ask them to point it out to you.
Plan:
- Finish up whatever missions we have
- Finalize our project
- Practice judging
Last practice, competition tomorrow.
Plan:
- Finish up whatever missions we have
- Drill missions, timing, score sheets