July 30-Aug 3, 2012 - High School

Would you like to create a LEGO robot that can search for victims? Would you like to make a LEGO Textrix robot that can be used for the High School FIRST Tech Challenge? Would you like to direct characters in your own 3D movie? You can do this using drag-and-drop programming with free software called Alice. For more information on LEGO Tetrix see http://www.legoeducation.us:80/store/detail.aspx?CategoryID=159&by=9&ID=1760&c=1&t=0&l=0. For more information on Alice see http://www.alice.org.

Monday - 9am - 3pm

15 minutes pre surveys http://findings.Pre-GaComputes.sgizmo.com/s3/
30 minutes Kinesthic Learning Activity: boolean game or Flowchart hopscotch (have them say their name and something they like to do)
30 minutes - show the kids lightbot2 http://armorgames.com/play/6061/light-bot-20 (click on basics to start and do all 6 basic levels if possible) and have them try to get through some of the first levels using pair programming. Also see http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/628 for a video to show you how to get started.
15 minutes explain the LEGO NXT kits (explain that 2x means 2 of that part, explain the sizes are the number of studs on the lego parts and show how to measure axles, show the 3 different black connectors that look similar and explain how to tell them apart, show how to use the parts list to find which bin a part can be found in)
1.5 hours try some easy things building and programming projects listed at http://nxtprograms.com/projects1.html. Scroll to the bottom to see the difficulty ratings. Try things like the top spinner, mini-golf, baseball batter, and spin art.
lunch 12 - 1pm
1 hour build the robot that matches the instructions in the kit (up to before you add the sensors)
1 hour do the first 7 challenges that come with the software and try to program the robot to go through coures outlined in blue painters tape - First NXT challenges
If the kids get bored do some CS unplugged activity like the card flip magic trick http://www.csunplugged.org/error-detection

Tues - 9am - 3pm

30 minutes - Do a CS Unplugged activity (like http://www.csunplugged.org/minimal-spanning-trees)
1 hour do the scavanger hunt
1 hour -Making a NXT robot dance show some movies from RoboCup Jr (seehttp://rcj.robocup.org/videos.html)
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.
lunch 1 hour
30 min - talk about robot localization, mapping, and traversal - ctovey@isye.gatech.edu
30 min - 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.
1 hour pick a more advanced thing to build from http://nxtprograms.com/projects1.html or continue work on rescue or dance.

Wed

30 minutes -Flowchart hopscotch or Kinesthic Learning Activity: boolean game (whichever you didn't do the first day)
30 minutes - show the students how to get started with Storytelling Alice (creating objects, positioning them, and invoking methods on them - see http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/165 and http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/169)
30 minutes - show what they have created.
30 minutes - Show them how to do more than one thing at a time (Do Together). Show them how to change the duration of the animation. Show them how to create their own methods in Alice http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/276
30 minutes - challenge the students to create their own methods and show them
30 minutes - talk about storyboarding (planning your story and breaking it into methods) let the kids work on storybording
lunch
afternoon recreation

Thursday

30 minutes - Show a dot diva profile like http://www.dotdiva.org/profiles/kendal.html to show kids some jobs in computing that deal with animation
30 minutes - Do a CS unplugged activity like http://www.csunplugged.org/turing-test
15 mintues - show students how to use a for loop http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/283 also show them how to use a while loop http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/282
45 minutes - let students work on a story with a for or while loop
15 minutes - show students how to create more than 1 scene http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/285
45 minutes - let students work on a story with more than one scene
1 hour lunch
30 minutes - show students how to create a new class with new methods http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/?q=node/228
1.5 hours - challenge students to work in groups to create a story with several characters and have them each work on the methods for one character and save that character out as a new class and then combine the saved classes into one Alice world to tell the story.

Friday, (parent show at 2:00pm)

30 minutes - Do a CS unplugged activity http://www.csunplugged.org/sorting-networks
most of day - let students work on what they want to for the parent show
15 minutes - post surveys: http://findings.Post-GaComputes.sgizmo.com/s3/
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.

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