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Robot Basics - March 27th, 2010

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Attendence for Robot Basics March 27, 2010


The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) is proud to host a Robot Basics workshop on Saturday, March 27th, 2010 from 8:00am - 4:30pm at GA Tech. Teachers must attend the entire workshop and do 2 hours of additional work on projects and grading rubrics to get 1 PLU. All teachers must register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K92DQ53. Georgia public school teachers must also register at http://www.ctaern.org for workshop CTAERN2883. This workshop will take place in room 1456 of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building (see Directions to the Klaus Advanced Computing Building).

Teachers will program Pleo dinosaur robots and then build LEGO NXT robots and program them using drag-and-drop programming (NXT-G). The workshop will explain how to cover introductory computing concepts by programming robots such as: sequential execution, conditional execution, iteration, creating your own methods (my block), and event-driven execution.

This workshop is free for Georgia teachers, and if you live > 30 miles from Georgia Tech we will pay for your hotel for Friday night (2 teachers per room), Friday night dinner, and Sat breakfast. If you would prefer a private room you can pay 1/2 the hotel cost. We will cover parking for Georgia teachers who stay at the hotel and reimburse parking for Georgia teachers who do not stay at the hotel. We will pay for lunch for all teachers. Space is limited to 30.

Please bring a laptop if you have one, or notify us if you need to borrow a laptop.

Out-of-state teachers pay $140. Checks for $140.00 should be made out to Georgia Institute of Technology and sent to:

Feliicia Auzla
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280

Her e-mail is fazula@cc.gatech.edu. Her phone is 404-894-6858.


After completing this workshop teachers will be able to explain the following using robots:


Teachers will also know how to:


Agenda
8:00am - 8:30am Introductions and intro to the Pleo robot
8:30am - 10:00am programming the Pleo robot
10:00am - 12:00am build a LEGO NXT robot
12:00pm - 12:30pm lunch
12:30pm - 2:00pm Program the robot to go through courses outlined on the floor and do a 30 second dance.
2:00pm - 3:30pm Program the robot to follow a black line
3:30pm - 4:15pm Discuss the lending library, robot competitions, and the Mayan Adventure Challenges
4:15pm - 4:30pm surveys

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