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Originally Posted by InfernoX14
We had elementary school kids thrilled to have our robot give them tubes and take tubes from them.
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We're doing the same thing with our robots (prototype and competition). We brought both to a fair one of the elementary schools had, which we had sponsored for Lego League. Unfortunately, it was raining so all we had a narrow hallway to drive only the prototype around. The elementary school age kids had a blast just driving it up and down the hall and banging into the walls -- it is kind of hard turning around, and the principal did it first, so there was precedent. Shoulda put the bumpers back on! The kids didn't care they weren't doing the tubes -- they were driving a robot!
We did have one 3rd grader however that was such a good driver, and kept coming back all afternoon, so we let him pick up tubes and put them on traffic cones: one on the floor, one he had to raise the arm up to get a cone on a shelf. I expect him in the robot club in 6 years!
Our shooter robot from two years ago was taken apart for practice driving
, but it would have been more awkward to drive around, and in that hallway nothing would have been safe from those poofballs. It would have been good for basketball halftime shows.
Oh, I was hoping for an invite to do a demo in the gym, and try hooking tubes on the basketball hoops (we didn't bring the camera for trying an autonomous mode), but no go. It would have been fun driving the robot down that long crowded hallway to the gym, yelling out
"Robot coming through!"