我們家小東西好像是編程過(guò)2級(jí)了。
On April 21, eight international schools from Shanghai and neighboring cities participated in the first Hangzhou International School “Robotics Invitational.” The event brought Lego enthusiasts in this region together for a day of working, learning, and solving Lego Robotics challenges. Our SAS Pudong team, “RoboEagle,” placed third in the competition and received the Judges’ Choice Award for their innovative ideas and persistence.
The team was comprised of Rishab Chander, Rushil Chander,
Daniel Abkenar, and Darran Abkenar. They prepared for this event by working evenings and weekends on writing programs, learning how to use sensors and and make the robot do basic
maneuvers. Rushil and Daniel were the robot builders while Rishab and Darran worked on programming the robot.
The day started with teams from the First Lego League (FLL), a robotics program for 9–14 year olds, running their robots to complete this year’s challenge: Food Factor. This provided the other teams a glimpse of the effort that goes into completing an FLL challenge and got them excited about participating in the next year’s FLL challenge. Following Food Factor was the Lego Robotics Decathlon — a set of 10 events designed to help the teams learn the basics of Lego robot programming, getting the robot moving, pushing, sensing, and navigating on its own.
The most popular and challenging event was the Lego Robotics Challenge(s) that was revealed to all the participating teams at the same time. The teams then had three hours to get their individual robots to complete as many challenges as possible within two minutes. Each challenge had point values assigned based on the complexity of the challenge. The students used the Mindstorms robot kit to create the robots. This kit combines the versatility of the Lego building system with an intelligent microcomputer brick and intuitive drag-and-drop programming software.
This event was such a great learning experience for the students. They had to create a strategy to score the maximum number of points and then program and build the robot accordingly. In the process they were learning how to work as a team and balance time constraints. It was exhilarating to watch the teams working.
This event was meant to provide opportunities for teams of different experience levels to interact with each other and make friends while learning how to build, program, and tinker in the spirit of cooperation that is the FLL way.
Next year the event planners hope to bring more participants together to enjoy this experience. The team organizers are planning to do a kick-off at the beginning of 2012–2013 school year to get more students involved. So, stay tuned and meanwhile, if this is your type of event, spread the word to friends at SAS and other international schools.