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Category: MathScience “CHALLENGE-EVENTS”
How do CA Math & Science K-8 CHALLENGE EVENTS differ from traditional robotics Tournaments?
1. Students do not compete against other teams.
2. They work, individually or with other classmates, to earn Badges, by solving the Project-Challenges.
3. They pass each Project-Challenge by “teaching” their robot to solve the challenge (Pro-bots for K-2; Botball for Grades 3-8)
4. Attendance is open through-out the Saturday morning so that students can attend the CA Math & Science CHALLENGE without giving up their weekend games or other events (they often show up in uniform).
5. The Project-Challenges are often challenges they have worked on in school or after-school robotics club but now EVERY CHILD gets to demonstrate mastery (which doesn’t always happen in the clubs or in-school robotics class), and earn their own button-badges!
The 2018 Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER) was held July 25, 2018 – July 29 at the Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Resort & Spa in Indian Wells, California.
Thank You to All Students, Teachers, and Parents for A Great Day at Hoover High Hoover Cluster: 10 Elementary Schools • 2 Middle Schools • 1 High School
Thank You Hoover High Robotics Club & Students for Hosting the “Challenge”
Special Thanks to the San Diego Rotary Club STEM Committee for their support!
This Saturday we introduced the K-2 Challenges using the Probot®robot for younger children:
Early Learning Advantage!™ ⇒ Programming • Problem-Solving • Applied Mathematics!
Hoover High School is hosting a Junior Botball® Challenge event on Sat, November 11, 2017 at the small gym. This event will be free and open to the public → DIRECTIONS
Students: drop by to “Take the Jr Botball Challenge” any time between 9 AM & 12 AM.
This event is open to all registered Junior Botball® Challenge teams.
Registered teams do not have to pay an additional fee to participate, but each school’s Botball coordinator must complete the sign-up form for this event (link below).
There are 6 Challenges at this event: Challenges 1, 2, 5, 9, 11, & Dance Party Challenge.
Challenges 1, 2, & 5 are for the beginner level, Challenges 9 & 11 will be for the intermediate level & the 6th challenge will be a mystery revealed onsite.
JBC Challenge 2: Ring Around the Can(beginning)- The robot will drive out and around the can in circle 6, and return to the starting area.
JBC Challenge 1: Tag You’re It (beginning)- The robot will drive to the can in circle 9, touch it, and return to the starting area.
JBC Challenge 5: Dance Party (beginning)-
Dance Party participants will receive a completion award when the robot “dances” to the music provided by the students and completes all of the performance standards:
In this ⇒ Video Clip two students on the Arts & Sciences Academy Robotics Team solve the “Serpentine Challenge” in Saturday’s Junior Botball Robotics Tournament in San Diego.
The Arts & Sciences Academy Robotics Team of Dharma and Martina were the ONLY team to solve all 5 challenges in the tournament! (their code is below the “read more” tag) Arts & Sciences Academy student Max, arriving near the end of the morning also finished 4 out of 5 challenges before running out of time!
Since the weekend’s tournament the MISD robotics team students have moved on to the second level of Jr Botball: Learning about Sensors, Light Energy & the Electromagnetic Spectrum, Digital vs Analog inputs, and more…!
Jr Botball is a program designed to get American kids playing the “game” of Math & Science at an early age. 3rd graders and up learn to program in Objective C to “teach” their robots to solve a series of challenges that require them to understand coding, electronics, sensors, simple machines, and more:
