June 1 - June 4, 2010 - Adventures in Animation I (LEGO NXT and Alice)

15 minutes pre surveys: http://findings.ms-pre-survey.sgizmo.com?school=GT&workshop
15 minutes Kinesthic Learning Activity: boolean game or Flowchart hopscotch (have them say their name and something they like to do)
15 minutes Introduction to LEGO NXT
1 hour - build the basic robot (without sensors yet)
30 minutes - visit Tucker Balch and his bees (at 11:00am)
lunch
30 minutes - First NXT challenges
1 hour - Making a NXT robot dance show some movies from RoboCup Jr (see http://rcj.robocup.org/videos.html)
30 minutes - CS Unplugged: binary numbers
30 minutes - Let the students add the light sensor, do challenges 16 and 17, and try to follow a black line on white foam board.

Wed, June 2nd 9am - 3pm

15 minutes - Introduce the kids to the rescue competition from RoboCupJr. and challenge them to try to identify the victims (by stopping and playing a tune) as they navagate through the course following the black line. They will have to try to find the line again when it disappears.
2.25 hours - work on the rescue challenge or work on a longer dance.
lunch
Swimming in the afternoon

Thurs, June 3rd 9am - 3pm

30 minutes - show the students how to create a scene in Storytelling Alice. See StorytellingStart.mp4 at http://home.cc.gatech.edu/TeaParty/57.
1 hour - have the kids create a scene and have at least 1 of the characters in the scene do something.
30 minutes - show what they have created.
30 minutes - Flowchart hopscotch or boolean game (whichever you didn't do the first day)
lunch
30 minutes - tour of campus
30 minutes - CS Unplugged: sending secret messages with binary
15 minutes - Show how to create a method in Alice (see http://home.cc.gatech.edu/TeaParty/57 - creatingAMethod.mp4).
30 minutes - Have students try to create their own method.
15 minutes - Show how to create a parameter for a method in Alice (see http://home.cc.gatech.edu/TeaParty/57 addingParameters.mp4)
30 minutes - students work on methods with parameters what they have created.

Friday, June 4th 9am - 3pm (parent show at 2:00pm)

15 minutes - Talk to the students about storyboarding - planning out your movie or story
15 minutes - Show the students how to save out a new class in Alice (see http://home.cc.gatech.edu/TeaParty/57 SaveClassWithNewName.mp4)
1.5 hours - work on their stories and have the students work in groups to design the story as a storyboard
30 minutes CS Unplugged card trick (error detection http://www.csunplugged.org/error-detection)
lunch
15 minutes - post surveys: http://findings.es-post-survey.sgizmo.com?school=GT&workshop=Adventures06012010
1.25 hours - Have each student create methods for a class and save it out as a new class. Put all the new classes together in one world to tell the story. If they get done early you can even have them add a class from another group.
1 hour - have the students show off their Alice stories and robot dances and/or rescue to the parents. Give out the ACM career brochures.

Summer Camps 2010 last edited on 4 February 2011 at 1:32 pm by cc-vpn-admin130.cc.gatech.edu