Bellevue Boot Camp June 22nd- 26th
Day 5
We thank you so much for having your child attend our Robotics Boot Camp. I'm sure your child learned something new about robotics and programming. It was a privilege for us to work with them.
The students really enjoyed the last day of camp when they had to work on the SUMO Challenge. They were very excited and many of them wanted to continue the competition. Pictures and videos from the camp are on our website (http://snoqualmierobotics.weebly.com/camp-2015.html).
The students really enjoyed the last day of camp when they had to work on the SUMO Challenge. They were very excited and many of them wanted to continue the competition. Pictures and videos from the camp are on our website (http://snoqualmierobotics.weebly.com/camp-2015.html).
Day 4
Today we discussed having consistent, accurate, and predictable programs using robot reliability. The students also did a maze/sumo robot attachment challenge.
We started off learning about robot reliability and why it is so important in programs. We demonstrated a couple of reliability techniques with examples. We watched couple of videos of FLL teams and analyzed how these techniques were used to achieve high scores.
We then started with the maze challenge. It was an exciting and challenging exercise for the students. The students used both action and flow commands, which were practiced over the last couple days.
The younger group of students consisting of; Darween, Thiruchelvam, and Senukka found a creative way to complete the challenge successfully with a simplistic approach. They were the first team to finish the challenge! Kudos kids!
At the end of the day the teams started their work on attachments for their robot in preparation for the SUMO challenge tomorrow.
We are excited to see their progress and looking forward to their work on SUMO Challenge tomorrow!
Friends and families are welcome to come tomorrow around 1:45 to see the students' SUMO Robots in a bracket-style competition. If you can't make it, no worries we will post pictures and videos on our website, http://snoqualmierobotics.weebly.com/.
Go team!
-Hari and Manjesh
We started off learning about robot reliability and why it is so important in programs. We demonstrated a couple of reliability techniques with examples. We watched couple of videos of FLL teams and analyzed how these techniques were used to achieve high scores.
We then started with the maze challenge. It was an exciting and challenging exercise for the students. The students used both action and flow commands, which were practiced over the last couple days.
The younger group of students consisting of; Darween, Thiruchelvam, and Senukka found a creative way to complete the challenge successfully with a simplistic approach. They were the first team to finish the challenge! Kudos kids!
At the end of the day the teams started their work on attachments for their robot in preparation for the SUMO challenge tomorrow.
We are excited to see their progress and looking forward to their work on SUMO Challenge tomorrow!
Friends and families are welcome to come tomorrow around 1:45 to see the students' SUMO Robots in a bracket-style competition. If you can't make it, no worries we will post pictures and videos on our website, http://snoqualmierobotics.weebly.com/.
Go team!
-Hari and Manjesh
Day 3
We are halfway done with our 5 day boot camp!
We felt good about the progress the students made yesterday. They were able to work on some of the core programming skills that are needed in First Lego League (FLL).
The younger group was the first one to finish their switch block program with no help so good job guys and keep up the great work!
We started the day diving into some of our flow command challenges. We started with a loop program where the students had to make their robot go around a box as many times as possible. Our second program was using the switch block making the robot display a certain thing depending on the button pressed.
The last exercise for the day was a variation of the “follow the line” program. This was a interesting challenge for the kids as they had to use a specific count on the loop so that it would stop in time to do a turn.
Today the students are now ready to begin their work on the 2 big projects of the camp, the maze and SUMO Robot. They will be working together in a group to complete both of these tasks so please remind them to be on their best behavior.
-Hari and Manjesh
We felt good about the progress the students made yesterday. They were able to work on some of the core programming skills that are needed in First Lego League (FLL).
The younger group was the first one to finish their switch block program with no help so good job guys and keep up the great work!
We started the day diving into some of our flow command challenges. We started with a loop program where the students had to make their robot go around a box as many times as possible. Our second program was using the switch block making the robot display a certain thing depending on the button pressed.
The last exercise for the day was a variation of the “follow the line” program. This was a interesting challenge for the kids as they had to use a specific count on the loop so that it would stop in time to do a turn.
Today the students are now ready to begin their work on the 2 big projects of the camp, the maze and SUMO Robot. They will be working together in a group to complete both of these tasks so please remind them to be on their best behavior.
-Hari and Manjesh
Day 2
We started the day with a team building exercise to teach the students the core values of FLL namely gracious professionalism and coopertition. The exercise, “passing the ball to all members of the team in a fastest way possible”, provided an opportunity for the students to work together and communicate with each other as well as find innovative solutions.
We gave the students couple of programming exercises. One of which included the jelly sandwich challenge showing the importance of understanding and executing the steps procedurally. Move exercises gave more hands on experience in programming the Robot.
Last exercise for the day was the infamous “follow the line” program which was a challenging but accomplishable. For this program the students had to use their knowledge of the flow controls and sensors which we had thought them yesterday and today.
We feel as if today we taught more things to the kids but we had lost the attention of some of the students closer to the end. We will make sure the kids are on track and do not get into arguments. Please remind them that FLL and Robotics is team sport.
We are excited to continue teaching the kids and have them take on some entertaining challenges such as Maze Challenge and SUMO Robot Challenge as their final project.
-Hari and Manjesh
We gave the students couple of programming exercises. One of which included the jelly sandwich challenge showing the importance of understanding and executing the steps procedurally. Move exercises gave more hands on experience in programming the Robot.
Last exercise for the day was the infamous “follow the line” program which was a challenging but accomplishable. For this program the students had to use their knowledge of the flow controls and sensors which we had thought them yesterday and today.
We feel as if today we taught more things to the kids but we had lost the attention of some of the students closer to the end. We will make sure the kids are on track and do not get into arguments. Please remind them that FLL and Robotics is team sport.
We are excited to continue teaching the kids and have them take on some entertaining challenges such as Maze Challenge and SUMO Robot Challenge as their final project.
-Hari and Manjesh
Day 1
Today we had our very first robotics class. Today’s session was longer than our usual Robotics boot camp.
We started the day with an overview of Lego EV3 main control unit. We explained the ev3 controls and motors/sensors. We talked about the action blocks in the EV3 programming software. These are the basic building programming commands in using EV3 for Robotics.
The majority of our time was spent creating the robot. The robot is a fairly simple design but difficult since we did not have all the pieces. Through some hard work and assistance both intermediate groups were able to complete their robot.
Tomorrow we will start the programming session with an intro do pseudo code. We intend to do some exercises and time permitting we will start to work on Drag Race.
We are excited to teach the kids more about the software and do some challenges. If you have any feedback please let us know.
-Hari and Manjesh
We started the day with an overview of Lego EV3 main control unit. We explained the ev3 controls and motors/sensors. We talked about the action blocks in the EV3 programming software. These are the basic building programming commands in using EV3 for Robotics.
The majority of our time was spent creating the robot. The robot is a fairly simple design but difficult since we did not have all the pieces. Through some hard work and assistance both intermediate groups were able to complete their robot.
Tomorrow we will start the programming session with an intro do pseudo code. We intend to do some exercises and time permitting we will start to work on Drag Race.
We are excited to teach the kids more about the software and do some challenges. If you have any feedback please let us know.
-Hari and Manjesh