Robotics Club


Robotics Club

I have been volunteering at a local elementary school for their Robotics Club. They build and drive robots from Vex IQ, a combination of lego-like pieces and motors, gears, tractor tracks. Recently we went to a competition of 30 teams, at least 6 schools, most were middle schools, but our students from 3rd,4th and 5th grade. Our class wore blue.

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Our fearless leader (the teacher)

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The competition is run on a field with blocks, catch baskets and obstacles.

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And our kids having fun competing. They did pretty well. 2 teams of 2 students from different schools worked together to score points moving block around by remote control. Each student drives for 1/2 of the 60 second time limit.

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Another trial is for pre-programming of the robot to run the course and score points.

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Always some last minute tweaks, but the coaches (teacher) and advisors can only kibitz.

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Some of the middle school robots were quite elaborate.

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