Workshop Presenter: Christopher Michaud
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Classroom 1447 Directions to the building.
Parking: State Street Parking Lot. Parking is $2.00 per hour. Parking directions for State Street.
Workers: Dominic and Karima (lead)
Materials: Laptops (if needed), EV3 and Expansion kits, NXT kits and Resource kits, art supplies (markers, craft foam, construction paper, sticky tabs, tape, technic bar pattern)
This hands on workshop will feature the new Lego EV3 Robotics system and a new curriculum for the NXT robotics system. Teachers will explore new building plans available at http://robotsquare.com/2013/10/01/education-ev3-45544-instruction/ and build an EV3 robot to explore computational ideas such as sequential execution, iteration, conditionals, defining functions, and event handling rough sensors. The new EV3 drag and drop programming software will be utilized during this workshop.
We will also examine the Artbotics curriculum and activities (http://artbotics.cs.uml.edu/index.php?n=Programs.LegoMindstorms) using the LEGO NXT robots. The Artbotics curriculum seeks to develop computational thinking through the creation of robot generated artwork. This unique curriculum provides an additional avenue of motivation for students to apply their building and programming skills with robotics.
This workshop is free for Georgia teachers, and if you live > 30 miles from Georgia Tech we may pay for your hotel for Friday night (2 teachers per room), Friday night dinner, and Saturday breakfast. We have limited funds to support food and lodging for teachers and will notify you after you register if your food and lodging will be covered. Alcohol is not covered! If you would prefer a private room you will pay 1/2 the hotel cost which is TBD. We will pay for lunch for all teachers. Space is limited to 30.
Meal allotments (not to exceed the listed amount)
Dinner night prior to workshop: $15
Breakfast day of workshop: $6
For reimbursement, please provide the following:
Submit original itemized receipts to workshop assistants at the end of the workshop. Failure to do so will delay payment significantly.
Submit a New Vendor Profile Form if this is your first time requesting a reimbursement. Please download the form and complete Section "A". Save a copy to your computer by selecting "FILE'-'SAVE AS'. You can give the completed form to the workshop assistants or email it directly to us at: gatech.ice@gmail.com. New Vendor Profile Form.
Please bring a laptop if you have one, or notify us if you need to borrow a laptop. If you have any questions please send e-mail to gatech.ice@gmail.com.
Out-of-state teachers pay $140. Checks for $140.00 should be made out to Georgia Institute of Technology and sent to:
ICE Programs
College of Computing
Attn: April Heard
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280
Agenda
Introduction and intro to EV3 Robotics System
Build the Educator Vehicle (http://robotsquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/45544_educator.pdf)
Linear Programming and course navigation with the EV3 Software
Color and Distance Sensor applications and event driven programming.
