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Robotics Challenges

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Challenges

Week 1 challenge: with a dixie cup, paper clips, marble, and fishing wire--carry the marble 3 yards and dump the marble out of dixie cup onto the "X marks the spot"
Week 2 challenges: Have bot move forward, back and turn left and right
Week 3 challenges: Move forward between lines and turn around in key hole
Week 4 challenges: Move through maze and pull up slope
Week 5 challenges: push cans out of circle and keep bot in circle
Week 6 challenges: Follow line (light sensor)
Week 7 challenges: Bot Tug o War and Tri Bot--pull clipboard with 3 cans 3 yards, move forward and touch wall and turn around, kick or push ping pong ball into "soccer goal"

Can Do Challenge

The Can-Do Challenge asked the teams to build and program a robot to clear six cans from a 3 foot circle. The robots received 2 points for each can that remained upright and was removed from the circle, and 1 point if the can flipped over. Cans had to be entirely out of circle to count.

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Videos
Group 1 Movie	Group 2 Movie	Group 3 Movie
Group 4 Movie	Group 5 Movie	Group 6 Movie
	Miscellaneous Video

Maze Challenge

The maze challenge required the students to build and program and negotiate a maze (see Word/PDF File) consisting of both walls, and lines which they could not cross. At the end, the robot had to play a song

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