22-05-2012, 17:31
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We're having Technical Difficulties
AKA: Ryan G
 FRC #1502 (Technical Difficulties) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Chelsea, Michigan
Posts: 76
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Re: getting 8th graders interested in FIRST
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Originally Posted by hammerhead_399
One activity you can do to teach the IDEA of programming is get a pair of safety glasses and spray paint them black(or find some way to remove vision from anyone wearing them), and set up an obstacle course for them. Keep it safe.
Get 2 volunteers, a programmer & a robot. Put the glasses on the robot volunteer. Have the programmer yell out commands to the robot(i.e. go forward, stop, turn 90 degrees to the left), and have the robot volunteer do ONLY what the programmer says.
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I like this one 
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