May 25th thru 29th Monday: no school Memorial Day Tuesday-Friday: continue programming
June 1 thru 5th Monday and Tuesday: exam review Wednesday: exam Thursday and Friday: disassemble robots, clean and inventory
June 8th Monday: 1/2 day Pride
May 18th thru 22nd Students continue to learn code for robots. They will also learn how their robot uses sensors to manipulate their environment.
May 11th thru 15th Programming robots to use sensors and react to their environment.
May 4th thru 8th This week, students will program robots to move thru a maze.
April 27th thru May 1st
This week, students will finish Battle Bots and begin learning to program robots to sense their environment and move autonomously.
April 20th thru 24th This week students will be completing their Power contests and will be moving into battle mode. I expect we will be doing battle bots by Thursday!
April 13th thru 17th This week students will engineer their bots for power. The team that can drag the most weight six feet wins the first contest. The team that wins the Tug-O-War wins contest two.
March 30 thru April 3 This week students continue to build and test and modify their Dragbots. Wednesday is the final day to establish a time for the 30 foot narrow runway! Good Luck!
March 23 through 27
Battle Bot Competitions
Competition #1 Dragster Bot Design, construct and program a robot with your team that when you push the ignition button fires straight down the track and through the finish line as quickly as possible. Use knowledge learned about gear ratio's and compound gears to make this happen.
March 16 thru 20
Continue Protobot setup and remote programming....
begin BattleBot competitions with education regarding Power vs Speed gear make-up.
March 9 thru 13
Monday-Friday: continue what we started last week In small groups, do the following in order; inventory parts, build wheel assembly, attach motors, program motors(forward, backward, turns, with USB attached and without) ....after these steps have been followed see instructor for additional instructions
March 2 thru 6 Monday-Friday: In small groups, do the following in order; inventory parts, build wheel assembly, attach motors, program motors(forward, backward, turns, with USB attached and without) ....after these steps have been followed see instructor for additional instructions
February 23 thru 27 Youtube Autodesk Project now due Tuesday!
Wednesday thru Friday: Break down robot, organize part kit, begin reassembly.
January 12th thru 16th Monday: review centroids and practice Tuesday: practice test centroids Wednesday: exam(centroids) Thursday: shortened class 1:13-1:50, cleaning and organizing Friday: no class, half day
January 5th thru 9th Monday-Friday: Find the Centroid Unit, powerpoint presentation and notetaking exercise, practice, real life examples, assessment is anticipated for Friday
December 15th thru 19th Monday-Friday: Complete and Test Final bridge, put article together, Autodesk Inventor learning
December 8 thru 12th
Monday-Friday: Complete and Test Final Spaghetti Bridges
all due by Friday!
December 1st thru 5th Monday-Friday: Continue building second bridge they are due next week! You should improve on first attempt by learning from your first bridge.
November 24-28 Monday and Tuesday: continue final spaghetti bridge Wednesday: half day...no class...Enjoy your break!
November 17-21 Monday-Friday: Spaghetti Bridge Project-finish 1st build this week and test, critique, improve design.....begin final build!
November 10th thru 14th Monday-Friday: Continue to build first Spaghetti Bridge according to the specs you created in your Engineering Notebooks and from the MD Solids application.
November 3 thru 7th Monday-Friday: Spaghetti Bridge Project!
October 13th thru October 17th Monday-Friday Truss Unit will continue this week and in to next week.
October 6th thru October 10th Monday-Friday Students will be learning about trusses. This is one of the most challenging parts of the year as they will using the Methods of Joints technique to analyze each truss to determine the magnitude of stress that each member is under and whether each member is in compression or tension. This unit requires the understanding of different support systems, moment forces, sketching free body diagrams, trigonometry and basic truss structures.