Engineering Curriculum at Coronado High School: 2010 - 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Lego Robotics Challenge!



The Principles of Engineering courses are starting their units on robotics! We will begin with a series of introductory challenges that will create some opportunities to think about software and hardware integration in the context of machine inputs and outputs.


Autonomous Challenge 01 - "Straight Line" race
  • Create an autonomous vehicle with Lego Robotics parts (task) in order so that it will traverse a 3ft straight line course. This activity serves as an intro/familiarization to your Lego Robotics kits (purpose).
  • Design, build, document and share your solution.

Autonomous Challenge 02 - "Bent" course race
  • Modify your design so that it can navigate a course with a turn in it (see layout at the back of the room). This change is designed to make you implement a solution that requires some sort of sensor input.
  • Design, build, document and share your solution.



Share your experience to this point on your online portfolio:
  • Intro
    • 2-3 sentences summarizing what we're up to.
    • Write from the perspective that the reader is not familiar with our course/efforts.
  • Challenge Review
    • Challenge 1 - straight course
      • Photo of course to set context of challenge
      • Build photo
      • Competition/Action photo
      • Describe outcome
      • Feedback: describe things to sustain and things to improve
    • Challenge 2 - "bent" course
      • Photo of course to set context for design change
      • Build photo
        • Be sure to describe how you addressed the change to the challenge
      • Competition/Action photo
      • Describe outcome
      • Feedback: describe things to sustain and things to improve


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