Last Day

August 3, 2012

Program a robot to draw.


The photographer from the Herald-Dispatch came so we quickly showed off Green City robot programs


and some of the art from previous days.

Then we built dogs or critters of some sort.
Gearing made the tail wag and the head move left and right.

With added art materials the critters have quite the personalities.

The swimmer and modified unicyclist can make art.

WeDo program adds motion and sound.

 

Some of the art

The afternoon was programming time.

The reporter from the Herald-Dispatch watched as the students ran their programs.







The first day was about learning the robots moving and sensing capabilities.
The second day was learning to program the NXT with NXT-G.
The last three days were for figuring out stratagem and programming to do the Green City missions.
They are much like the tasks needed by a FIRST LEGO League team.

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Congratulations

of Linda Hamilton hamilton@marshall.edu With support from  Webpages and pictures on http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO Web camera on http://legocamera.marshall.edu Teleoperate AppaLEGO CITY at http://lego.marshall.edu NASA site of Remote Sensing on http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu

Summer robotics camp wraps up
 

The Herald-Dispatch

HUNTINGTON � Dozens of local students have been participating in LEGO robotics camps this summer, with the final one wrapping up at Marshall University on Friday.

Sponsored by the Rahall Transportation Institute, the S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) camp offered children in elementary and middle school the opportunity to design, build and program robots.

Linda Hamilton, the program specialist who works for RTI, said in her 12 years of running the LEGO league, she has seen how the experience has impacted children. They learn problem solving, she said, which is helpful whether they become engineers or writers .

As part of the FIRST LEGO League, students must also design T-shirts and give presentations about their projects .

Andrew Harper, a 9-year-old from Hurricane, said he started playing with LEGOs when he was about 4. But he said adding robotics to a LEGO build intrigued him.

For more information about the First LEGO League and LEGO camps, contact Hamilton at hamilton@marshall.edu or call 304-696-7098.
 

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/multimedia/galleries/x1883247051/Gallery-LEGO-Summer-Camp-at-Marshall-University

Photos by Lori Wolfe/ The Herald-Dispatch

Linda Hamilton, second from left, of Marshall University and the Nick J. Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute instructs students as they watch as their robots perform tasks as part of LEGO Summer Camp on Friday at Marshall University.