2014 Robotics Team Starting

Kawananakoa Robotics is being offered as an after school enrichment program.  Students will discover the valuable role played by robots in our society.  More importantly, they will develop critical thinking and cooperative learning strategies as they are presented with questions about constructing a team robot that fits specific criteria, programming that robot while communicating tasks and accomplishments with their teammates and others.

Prerequisites for participation in the Kawananakoa Robotics are:

• One page typed essay (minimum 100 words) explaining how your presence and participation will be an asset to the Kawananakoa Robotics project
• Complete parental consent form with student recommendation checklist
• Two teacher recommendation checklists – you may ask previous year’s teachers
• Self checklist

Kawananakoa Middle School Robotics sessions will be held after school from 3:00 – 4:00pm in J104 every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday until the end of the first semester. Sessions during the second semester will be determined later.  Students and parents will need to make arrangements for transportation on meeting days and competition days.

The phases of the Robotics project are:

Project overview, team building, basic problem solving, Team construction of robots schematic drawings, programming and competition

A New Year, A New Team

The 2012 First Lego League has begun.  Our first meeting was last week Friday. This year's topic is Senior Solutions. Our weekend homework was to find a person over 60 years old and ask them what has become a problem or has gotten more difficult with age.  We then needed to bring a problem and an innovative solution to that problem.

Some of the problems we found were getting around, being able to reach things that are too high or to low, not being able to see or hear as well, not being able to cook for themselves anymore, legs getting sore too fast, and forgetting things.

Today we got to know everybody on the team a little bit better and decided to focus on the problems of losing the senses of sight and hearing. We learned about how the eye works and tried to think of way to help restore people's sight.

Homework for tonight is to think of a team name. It needs to be positive and somehow relate to robots or lego.

In the heat of the action

Kia and Zarek work together during on of the three heats during the competition.

Only two members of each team are allowed to approach the playing field. These two students can make any changes to their robot while standing there during the time limit. Looks like Zarek is checking out what the other team is up to while Kia tries to get everything perfect.

First Lego League Competition Day

Saturday, November 6th was the day of the competition. It was at Kalani High School.