Kicking off Our 2019 Robofest Season: Binary Blocks

Meeting for Week 1
January 7/January 10

Season Overview

• Club Goals
• Support building school community
• Encourage interest and participation in STEM
• Promote teamwork, communication, and leadership skills

• Important Dates
• Club Meetings Mondays or Thursdays (no school, no meeting)
• March 23: Gallimore Qualifying Competition
• April TBD: Robofest Qualifying Invitationals
• May 16-18: Robofest World Championship

• Robofest Game: 
• Robofest Game Webpage http://robofest.org/index.php/current-competitions/game
• Kickoff Slides https://www.robofest.net/images/1819/Robofest19Kickoff_us2.pdf

• Your Team
• 3 or 4 students
• Students will do ALL of the work
• planning, building, programming, and problem-solving
• learning and student-ownership is the goal
• 1 or more coach
• help team stay on task during club meetings
• help team make decisions and get help when needed 
• help team understand the rules of the game
• help register team and complete forms
• ensure team has all materials and supplies
• monitor team progress and help with time management

Starting Work for the Season

• Work on Team Name, Team Photo
• Understanding the Object of the Game
• Setting Reasonable Goals (breaking down the challenge)
• Decide on a preliminary robot design
• Harvester http://www.legoengineering.com/the-harvester-a-quick-ev3-robot-build/
• Riley Rover http://www.damienkee.com/home/2013/8/2/rileyrover-ev3-classroom-robot-design.html
• Robot Educator https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/mindstorms-ev3/building-instructions#robot
• How Parts Work
• https://education.lego.com/en-us/resources/getting-started

What You Need