Robotics Sept 2018

SJS Robotics, Sept. 2018

Our SJS Robotics team is hard at work! Our competition is Nov. 15 and we have plenty of work to do getting ready.

We begin all of our meetings with a team building activity. This gives the students a chance to practice working together creatively. This week, the team was challenged to make a tower using just newspaper and masking tape. The tower was supposed to be more than 12 inches and strong enough to hold a heavy book. The team took it to a higher level!

 

Sometimes we need to make repairs to our mission models. Our robot was supposed to drive over the "craters" and push on the bar, but the robot broke the bar instead. Luckily, Legos can be easily fixed.

The students are brainstorming ways that the robot can collect "core samples" from one area of the robot field.

Next, they are writing down the individual steps that the robot will take in completing the task.

In addition to building a robot, our team will propose a solution to a real world problem. The topic this year is long term space exploration. Our team is doing background research on Mars and learning about all of the challenges that astronauts will encounter during a Mars mission.

The team is building different styles of forklift and will test them to see which one will work best for the robot missions.