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Robotics wrapping up for 2013-2014

Today, Eagles Robotics members prepared for the Round Rock ISD Sumobot showcase on May 20, 2014 from 5:00-6:30PM at Cactus Ranch Elementary. Team members worked on building more Castorbot models as well as creating programs to manuever obstacle courses. The team can vouch for the fact that programming for obstacles is a lot harder than it looks! We return again in two weeks AT CACTUS RANCH ELEMENTARY to participate in the Sumobots competition.

In the meantime, please respond to this form by next week Tuesday, May 13 at 7PM to indicate whether you and your student will be attending the Sumobot competition (optional, but will take the place of robotics that day) and whether you will be able to attend the Robotics party on May 27 from 2:45-4:00PM.

The link to the form is here: http://goo.gl/0XIucz

I would also like a headcount for who plans on returning for our fall season of robotics. I will be posting an announcement on broadcast soon for students in regards to this.

Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about the fall competition season as well!

Preparing for the Sumobot

Today, Eagles Robotics members prepared for the Round Rock ISD Sumobot showcase on May 20, 2014 from 5:00-6:30PM at Cactus Ranch Elementary. Team members worked on building more Castorbot models as well as creating programs to manuever obstacle courses. The team can vouch for the fact that programming for obstacles is a lot harder than it looks! We return again in two weeks to learn how to program sensors.

In the meantime, please respond to this form by next week Tuesday, April 30 at 7PM to indicate whether you and your student will be attending the Sumobot competition (optional, but will take the place of robotics that day) and whether you will be able to attend the Robotics party on May 27 from 2:45-4:00PM.

The link to the form is here: http://goo.gl/0XIucz

Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about the fall competition season as well!

Intro to coding!

Today, our robotics team began an introduction to coding, in preparation for our fall competition season. Members learned how to code with the NXT program. They utilized the "move blocks" to program commands around an obstacle course. For instance, they programmed a robot to move forward 3 rotations at 30% power/force and to make a 45 degree turn at 50% power and so forth.

Our team discovered the math involved in precision, but are excited to continue programming in two weeks as we build our own obstacle course!

If you want to refresh on tutorials, check out the resources page of our blog here.

The Final Countdown

After today's meeting, Eagles' Robotics will only meet four more times until the end of the year. Stay tuned for announcements on next fall's competition season. Today, we wrapped up building team robots. Next week, each member will choose a program to code. And, if time allows, we will construct robots to go with the programs.

We look forward to an exciting end to our first season of Eagles' Robotics! Thank you to all for your help in this first season!

The final stages of year 1

Today marked our final section of year one robotics. Teams finished their final steps on building team robots. Next week - March 25 - members will learn the fundamentals of coding, leading up to the robotics showcase on May 6. All family members are welcome to attend our robotics showcase from 2:45-4:30PM on May 6. In the meantime, follow our outline on our blog for updates!

Finishing up team robots

Today, groups worked on finishing up their team robots to use in our spring robotics showcase. We have everything from Segways to bumper cars being created! Teams have learned how to function as a team, troubleshoot, problem solve and more in the pursuit of building their best robot!

We will meet again on Tuesday, March 18 at our usual 2:45-4:00PM. At that time, groups will finish their robots and begin working on individual robots. We will also start recruiting for our fall robotics team as the competition will be released soon!

Building Stories

Eagles Robotics resumed today after a cold weather break. Today, we continued building, learning pieces, reading instruction manuals, and improving our team work. To build, members must find and locate appropriate pieces, build from a detailed instruction manual, and learn what to do when things don't work - all important skills!

We will meet again in two weeks on February 25 to finish building our current projects. After these projects are done, we will work on programming (individually) so that we can have a Forest North Robotics Showcase on the last two days of robotics class. This will better prepare us for an awesome competition season next year. Thank you for your help and support!

And, we're back!

Today, our team started back for the spring semester with building. Members are working in groups of three to build a project of their choice. After this unit, students will work on building their very own project (not from our tutorials) to share in our robotics showcase on May 6, 2014! We look forward to learning more about programming and building in preparation for our second year next year!

We will be meeting again next week to start some programming workshops with a guest instructor.