Robots Wrestling, Students Learning
Posted on August 15, 2006 Comments (3)
Robots Wrestling, Students Learning by Jessica Marks:
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And it has been exciting for many of the students who took Martinez’s class over the summer – a class that was designed to give students an introduction to robotics and engineering.
These students spent a majority of their 9-week class building a “Boe-bot” – a small “brain with wheels,” which the students modified – putting light sensors on them to detect shadows and “whiskers” to detect hard objects – so they could perform tasks, most of which were pretty complex.
One group of students filed down part of the aluminum legs and made the Boe-bot creep around like a spider. It was able to climb the steep dirt embankment outside the class.
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And while the students were having fun, they were actually learning high-end scientific and mathematical concepts.
College of the Canyons is part of the California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE) project is a joint effort between seven community colleges and over 30 large high tech engineering/technology employers.
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February 4th, 2007 @ 10:00 am
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June 1st, 2009 @ 1:40 pm
Yes, reminds me of the shows like Battlebots. Fun and educational at the same time!
January 8th, 2012 @ 9:02 pm
“The FIRST Robotics competition, where high school students build complicated robots to push a ball along and do other tasks, has 54 Minnesota teams this year [2008], up from just two in 2006…”