Welcome to the Summer 2021 Program for Framingham Public School Robotics
This is the main landing page for our program. Basically, every resource I bring up, every slideshow I present, and any general information can be found here. If you ever feel the need to send me an email, you can also do so from here.
Initial Plan
Since we have 40 hours of instruction, we have a lot of time to play with. 12-15 hours is already scheduled to build the basic Clawbot, so this is a good place to start.
While building, it may make sense to demonstrate a classroom game that can use some of the existing VEX competition pieces, like cones and mobile goals, that will allow for the students to plan strategy with the robot. This entire competition phase may take 5-10 hours.
After this, we can open up the course a bit more, depending on the students’ level of experience and their interests. For example, if they are interested in programming, we can do a competition to automatically load up as many cones as they can, or program a robot to move somewhere else.
If they’re interested in building, we can add a modification to the existing game, in order to ask them to expand their design. Say, for example, if the goal is placed a foot high in the air. This would require some design, but it is important to not make this too difficult.
| Week | Class Resources | Other Cool Resources |
|---|---|---|
| 1: Intro, What is Robotics, and Getting Started | Initial Slideshow | Clawbot Instructions |
| 2. Documentation | Documentation Slideshow |