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Re: Middle School Mindstorms Class Help

Hey guys,

Thank you so much for your feedback, you've come up with ideas that I would have not thought of!

Here's what I've come up with from the various comments. Tell me how you think it would fly.

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Over the years, I've found that starting with pre-built robots and giving the kids little programming challenges using different sensors works well.
That's what I thought to do for at least a couple months until they mastered programming. So I think I will be sticking to the four step process that I mentioned before. I like the idea of introducing each sensor to the robot sequentially as like a way to learn each one of them one by one.

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The students grade for the unit is based on the score they get at the end on the mat.
We were wondering how we would administer a "mid-term exam and final exam grade" and I like your idea of testing how well a robot completes the task. Unfortunately we cannot grade the entire class this way as we need to count behavior and completion of hw assignments too.

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just finished a Mindstorms class, albeit with younger students, and I found that using robot sumo as a final activity really engaged the kids and gave to possibility for both simple solutions and lots of iteration.
I like the idea of a sumo robot. So basically the robots are trying to push each other out of the ring? Autonomously or tele-op?

I am trying to make a final curriculum right now. Maybe I'll post it after I am done to get your input.

One last thing is now our team was invited to help organize and teach a TETRIX course at the local Police Athletic League. I was wondering what control system is best: Arduino or Mindstorms?

Thanks a lot for all of your help!!
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