Game Creation with Robots (elective)
Game Creation with Robots combines the student's interest and knowledge of gaming with programming, creativity, calculation, written expression and problem solving. For one semester, students are challenged to learn how to program two different robots to interact with a specific game board.
The first robot is the Finch, which has become familiar in our school. The students must learn how to program the Finch's functions and then conceptualize a game, complete with a created computer program (Snap!), game board and a game sheet (rules, regulations, how to play, scoring. etc). Over several weeks, the students work in teams to evolve their concept into a reality. Projects are then tested by peers and evaluations submitted. The teams then take this information and iterate their game and game sheet prior to final submission. The idea is to have a collection of well designed and challenging games for our student body to experience at their leisure.
After successful completion of this project, students then move onto the Lego MindStorm robot. With this project, students must learn how to program the brick (EV3) and then design an appropriate robot to interact with the established FLL (First Lego League) board, completing a certain number of tasks. The idea is to introduce a wider demographic of students to the EV3 and the FLL board in an effort to strengthen our FLL robotics team (fall activity).
The first robot is the Finch, which has become familiar in our school. The students must learn how to program the Finch's functions and then conceptualize a game, complete with a created computer program (Snap!), game board and a game sheet (rules, regulations, how to play, scoring. etc). Over several weeks, the students work in teams to evolve their concept into a reality. Projects are then tested by peers and evaluations submitted. The teams then take this information and iterate their game and game sheet prior to final submission. The idea is to have a collection of well designed and challenging games for our student body to experience at their leisure.
After successful completion of this project, students then move onto the Lego MindStorm robot. With this project, students must learn how to program the brick (EV3) and then design an appropriate robot to interact with the established FLL (First Lego League) board, completing a certain number of tasks. The idea is to introduce a wider demographic of students to the EV3 and the FLL board in an effort to strengthen our FLL robotics team (fall activity).
