Presentation Day, Round Two! by Mrs. Brown

Today is bittersweet. It is our LAST day of technology exploratory focusing on programming and robotics. That is the bitter part. The sweet part is that we get to showcase some of our hard work this past quarter. You may very well notice a common theme throughout these video presentations, which is that it takes a lot failure to reach success. I am so proud of these students for their resilience, perseverance, and creativity! They worked so hard and even wanted more time to perfect their projects. It was hard to find our stopping points. Such dedication! Although today was our last day and we wanted more time, we have much to show for our efforts:

A Dog's Life with Scratch and Makey Makey by Hannah and Alex

Lego Robotics by Amelia and Drew

Little Bits Theatre Star Wars Production by Charlie and Abigail

Build and Computer and Drag and Drop Programming with Nate and Ben

3D Printing An Invention to Help You Dine with Eva and Rachel

Shoot Some Hoops with Little Bits Basketball by Lexi and Sarah

Robotic SPRK Course by Wendell and Ryan

Robotic Pig by Molly and Leeya

Trial and Error with Dot and Dash by Sadie and Ashley

I look forward to next year's exploratory, at which time we will learn Javascript, HTML, and game design. Have a great summer!

Dot and Dash's Journey to Victory written by Sadie and edited by Hannah

photo credit: Leeya

This week, my partner and I have the tool Dot and Dash. We are programming it to drive from the starting line, to the finish line. We have created a course that is supposed to resemble Dash as the referee to a soccer game but he is late, so he has to take the short, but dangerous path. The first step to our project is making a design. Then, we made a course for Dash to journey through the maze. We started with building two spikes for Dash to weave through before coming to a bridge for him to go under. Then he turns around and continues with going over the bridge. Last, he makes a turn or two before reaching the finish line. My partner and I predicted that the hardest part will be programming Dot and Dash but we haven't started that part yet. So far, the hardest part was creating support for Dash to successfully make it over the bridge without crashing into it! My partner and I are having a lot of fun with the Dot and Dash.   

Presentation Day!

We did so well with our first round of technology rotations in our design teams and now we are moving on to round two! We wanted to share what we made with the world so please enjoy:

Robotic Cat by Alex and Hannah

Hanukkiah with LittleBits by Eva and Rachel

Dash Rescues Dot by Ben and Nate

SPRK Obstacle Course by Charlie and Abigail

It's All Fun and Games with Lego Robotics by Ryan and Wendell

Scratch and Makey Makey by Amelia and Drew

Musical LittleBits by Leeya and Molly

Lego Robotics Candy Dispenser by Ashley and Sadie

Build a Computer with Kano by Lexi and Sarah

Robotic Cat by Hannah

This week my partner and I were working on ourHummingbird robotics project. We are creating a cat that moves its arm and has blinking eyes and mouth.It is quite hard to get all the wires and connections right, but we are figuring it out. In addition, we are going to present the cat on May 4, 2017. I learned a lot of new things like, that black is always negative, what a servo is, and how to create a sequence. This was a great work week and I can't wait to see what we are working with next week!

Our SPRK Journey by Abigail

For the past couple of days we have been working with the SPRK. The SPRK is a clear robotic ball, and you can see all of the wires and the motherboard inside it. First, we took some boxes and duct taped them together and made a maze inside the boxes. Next, we went on the Lightning Lab app and coded the SPRK to go through the entire maze. 

A Smorgasbord by Will

Today is 4C's last day of technology. Today we are all working on diffrent projects. One group is working on drones that can fly really high and take pictures. Just like what professonals use, not the ones from air hogs and other stuff like that. Another group is working on programming the Dot and Dash robot. Dot is a tiny robot that looks like a dot that you can use to say stuff like " You are my best friend" or " Nerf is awesome" and Dash is a dot with giant wheels that you can also program too to say stuff like for example " I am Dash, what is your name?" or "Sianora is japanesee for Goodbye". Finally, a group is working on a sphero, a tiny robot you can program to run, change color, turn, say stuff, and even spin in circles!!! You could also just play around with it. It is like a Dot but clear. We are sad it's over but we can't wait to do this at home!!! 

Lego Robotics Presentations

We have completed our Lego Robotics presentations! For a peek at what we did in class, please watch our videos below:

Emmy and Will

Ben and Josh

Julia and Micah

Kaitlyn and Matthew

Kyra and Jayden

Sylvie Bella and Levi

Adam and Nora

Samantha and Dani helped make our new Mo Willems pillows that you now see in our media center!