Robotics fun day (moved from chitchat)

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Originally Posted by Radical Pi

Since this is middle school I'd think they'd be able to handle this: show the kids the game animation and tell them to come up with absolutely any robot design. Let them try thinking outside the box. Maybe you'll learn something too

The other team leader and i coming up with the fun day absolutely loved this idea it was something we would probably never think of.

Originally Posted by LLogan

I think mousetrap vehicles would be perfect for this. Give them a kit with a few CD's and a mousetrap and see who goes the furthest distance, etc.

This would be good too and very cheap to put the kits together. I am a little worried as mouse traps could be dangerous.

Originally Posted by EricH

Paper airplane challenge: Accuracy and distance. Simply design a paper airplane that is accurate or can go very far, differing point amounts (i.e., farther targets are worth more, total distance in 3 throws plus total points from accuracy is your score).

Lego building challenge: Given a bunch of parts, build us something cool in X category. (May need more specific than just a category, but you get the idea.)

Improve the robot: Take this year's robot, show them the game, and ask them how you can improve it. (Then implement those improvements and take the robot to an offseason competition--great freshman training there, so 2 for the price of 1!)

The Lego one sounds cool.We loved the paper Airplane one, Also we were thinking that something like paper airplane golf would be good too.



Also the team waned to use this as a fundraiser so i was wondering what you all think is an appropriate price, we were think $1 or so just to watch. $15 for a team of 2 including T-shirts. And maybe $10 for a single kid. I'm not too sure how much a T-shirt would cost so these might need to be increased.