Our First Week by Sydney

Our first day of Technology, we participated in a digital ice breaker. We went on to Sketch Pad and created our own digital self portraits. When everyone was done making their portrait we all put our creations on a Padlet. Be sure to go check that out! Then, we tried to guess who was who. One lucky student guessed all of them correct! The next day we got to look at all of our technology tools we will use throughout this exploratory. We are now animating a robot in Scratch to get the basic understanding of drag and drop programming. Next week, we head to the Idea Lab to begin creating greatness!

Little Bits Is Amazing With A Partner by Josh

My partner and I were chosen to use the tool Little Bits. Little Bits is much harder than you think. Little Bits is a technology tool that can include a remote that you can make.  Little Bits is made of batteries for power, a bargraph light, an LED light, a fork to connect the modules, and a dimmer to control the power. We first put together the modules in the way that we want them, which causes our Little Bits to light up.  That takes about two days to do! When you get to the designing of your project that takes about a week. When you're done with presenting your project, you'll be relieved because all of you hard work is behind you! 

Round Two

It's amazing how much our tech skills have improved in just a few short weeks! Click the links below to see how far we have come:

Lego Robotics by Aidan and Ryan

The Story of Blue Robot by Hope and Mallory

Scratch by Ross and Joshua

Robert Robo by Talan and Morgan

Kano Games by Cory and Lizze

Sphero Obstacle Course with Harrison and Reid

Sphero Color Designs by Zoe and Alyssa

Disco with Hummingbird Robotics by Rachel and Renee

Round One

We hope you enjoy viewing our programming and robotic skills from our first round of working in a team with various technology tools:

Parachute Man with LittleBits by Harrison and Reid

The Ginger House by Zoe and Alyssa

Sphero Obstacles by Aidan and Ryan

Sphero as a Cat by Mallory and Hope

Superbowl Spirit with Hummingbird by Ross and Joshua

Parts of a Computer by Renee and Rachel

Stadium Lights with LittleBits by Lizzie and Cory

The Lego Magic Wand by Morgan and Talan

Presentation Day by Rachel

Today we are going to present some of our projects that we've been working on in groups. We used lots of different things. Some are made with Hummingbird, some are Little Bits, some are on Scratch, some are using Kano, and the last group is making something with Lego robotics. The projects were very fun to make. Some were challenging and some were easy. Everybody is ready and excited to present. 

Computing with Kano by Lizzie

We are building a computer with Kano. What you do with Kano is you build a computer with some very helpful instructions. Kano is very fun once you get the hang of setting it up. Some of the parts in Kano are called the HDMI cable, the WiFi connector, the memory, the custom case, a speaker, and the raspberry pi.We have been making a game with the help of Pong.  Kano is such a fun project to work on in technology.

Robert Robo by Talan and Morgan

Our design group is using Little Bits to make a robot head out of cardboard. Its name will be Robert Robo. The mouth is made of Little Bits lights, which will light up, and the eyes are going to be cut out so my design partner can see through the head. His head is going to be inside the box. There is going to be a motor on the head so it can move the hair (aka yarn.) After that, it will look like a robot with its hair moving and mouth lit up.