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Robotics Club

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Robotics Club was created to challenge our most gifted mathematicians.  These children are invited to join this club and given a variety of complex challenges which involve programming. The initial challenge is often to build the model correctly (from the Lego Mindstorms sets - aimed at secondary school aged children).
After a number of weeks of trial, error, determination and frustration (with as little support from adults as possible), our 'roboteers' complete their first programmed models. 
Once they have built a number of models and programmed them successfully they are allowed to create their own hybrid robots to fulfil a variety of self-generated challenges.   





Here are the first two bumper cars to be successfully created and programmed to reverse away from a 'bump' and try again...




We tested them to see if they behaved in exactly the same way (even though they had been independently programmed).



We showed the robots in action during assembly.




The next robot has 'sight' and needed to be programmed to see obstacles - again reversing away.  It also kept the 'bumper' in case it reversed into something else.
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A robot with an eye!

Inspirational Learning, Aspirational Children