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(Re)New Orleans with Robotics Summer Camp!
(Re)New Orleans with Robotics
Summer Camp!
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Welcome to BEYOND BLACKBOARDS Summer Camp!
Help yourself to snacks
& join in the circle
Create a name poem
Circle Chat: Introductions
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Day 1: Innovation in Our World
SHANNON
WE’RE EXCITED TO GET TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOU. FIND AN OPEN SPOT AT A COMPUTER – MORE INSTRUCTIONS ARE AWAITING YOU THERE!
Survey Monkey
Day 1: Innovation in Our World
Hidden Builds & Partner Sketching• Partners gather 2 building bags.• Sit back-to-back so that both construction areas are
hidden.• Both partners design & construct at the same time• 5 minute CHALLENGE: –MAKE THE TALLEST STRUCTURE POSSIBLE
USING ALL OF THE MATERIALS IN YOUR BAG.• Take turns describing your structure to your partner
for her/him to draw before seeing it.• When done, reveal the structure to
compare/contrast drawing to real structure (partners switch roles & repeat).
Day 1: Innovation in Our World
TURNING IDEAS INTO ACTION
Apollo 13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNDuGuerpf8
Day 1: Innovation in Our World
• Observe the object closely. What kind of object is it?
• Describe what you see. What is interesting, innovative, trendy, notable, or surprising?
• Connect with what you already know. Have you seen
anything like this before? Do you have any experiences with something like this?
• Generate and represent your ideas about the object. What do you think is or was the purpose of this object? When, why, and for who do you think it was created? How does it work? What might be inside to make it work? What does the inside look like?
• Compare and contrast to other objects. How is this object similar or different to other objects? What analogies can be made about this object?
• Generate questions about the object. What questions do you still have about the object? What do you think you have figured out about the object?
LIGHT UP YOUR IMAGINATION!
Spend 10 minutes observing &
investigating – jot down responses to these questions so that you can share them with others.
Day 1: Innovation in Our World
NAME THOSE PARTS
Day 1: Innovation in Our World
DESIGN A HAND-POWERED FLASHLIGHT
Who would use it?
Why would you want to
design & build a hand-
powered flashlight?
Can you get the light
bulb(s) to shine?
How long does the flashlight
stay powered?
What is the size of
the flashlight?
Is there a way to
design a hand crank to make it
easy to turn?
Can you modify the design to
make cranking even easier?
PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3
USE LEGO parts below to create your own hand-cranked flashlight.
Day 1: Innovation in Our World
IMAGES of INNOVATION “a picture is worth a 1,000 words”
Photos win Pulitzer Prizes because we imagine they can change the world…Think of some of your favorite pictures.
How do you see innovation & inventions in your daily life?
Capture & create pictures to share using your very own digital camp camera!
Write your name on the sticker & tag your camera
Talk about
responsibilities of
having a camp
camera
How does my digital
camp camera work?
Day 1: Innovation in Our World
Day 2: Exploration Stations
Day 2: Exploration Stations
Day 2: Exploration Stations
Day 2: Exploration Stations
Day 2: Exploration Stations
EXPLORATION STATION: GEARSMagnetic
Gears• Arrange the gears
on a magnetic surface & make them move together.
• Are the gears moving at the same speed?
• If not, what gear(s) move faster & what gear(s) move slower?
• Can you tell the ratio of speeds between the gears?
Virtual Gears• Investigate how
different gear trains work using the “constructopedia ” website: http://www.lego.com/education/school/default.asp?l2id=3_3&pageName=4_1
• Consider why you would want to use one type of gear train instead of another.
• Use at least one model from the “constructopedia” to design your own gear train(s).
LEGO Gears• Discover all of the
different types of gears in LEGOs.
• Look closely at the LEGO gear train models. Get a feel for how the gears interact with each other.
• Build your own gear train(s) inspired by at least one of the physical builds.
Day 2: Exploration Stations
EXPLORATION STATION: STRUCTURESBuild a wall a minimum of five bricks high by eight bricks long.
Will the strength of the wall be affected by how the wall is built?Test the strength of the wall by dropping the wall three feet from the floor.Did the wall break in to many pieces?Rebuild the wall and try again.
Try and rebuild the LEGO wall with maximum overlapping.Repeat the drop test – does the wall stay mostly in one piece?
Bridge Building: Build a LEGO bridge segment that has top surface that has 10 by 20 studs. The top surface should be four bricks high. The bridge should allow water to flow under it on the 10 stud length side. Design the bridge so that area of 10 one by one bricks of “water” could pass under the bridge segment.
Day 2: Exploration Stations
EXPLORATION STATION: BUILDS IN BINS
Label each of the bins with the matching named picture of the LEGO piece. Try to match the items without looking at the picture.
Use this picture as a guide to build the base of a car. Get the pieces from the bins to complete this build.
OPTION: Modify the build with other pieces in the bin to create a top structure for the car. **See pictures for design.**
CHALLENGE: Race your car down the provided ramp. Use the stopwatch to record exact speed. Design & build ways to improve speed.
Replace all parts in bins when finished. Make sure to remove the labels on the bins for the next group.
Day 2: Exploration Stations
EXPLORATION STATION: ZIPLINES
How do zip lines work?
Why would zip lines be
useful?
Who might use zip lines?
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4610292_zip-line-work.html How do I
set up a zip line?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMZaoIwsaz8
BUILDING TO BALANCE:• Construct a zip line by tying a 5 ft string at a 20° - 30°
angle.• Use the LEGO pieces provided & construct a “vehicle”
that can transport the weighted pieces (people rocks etc), across the zip line.
• Sketch your design before you build it.Day 2: Exploration Stations
EXPLORATION STATION: MBTI
• Learn more about yourself & other campers!• Take the MBTI quiz on the computer.• When you finish, you will get a 4 letter result.• Pick up the cards with your 4 letters & their
descriptions on them.• Find a partner & trade cards (you will read about
your partner & vice versa).• Read aloud the card descriptions to your partner.
Does s/he agree with the results? Does each letter description seem to accurately describe her/him?
Day 2: Exploration Stations
“In 2005, the American Society of Civil Engineers issued a report card, grading various categories of U.S. infrastructure. THE AVERAGE GRADE WAS “D.”
How can we help improve the grade?
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
Electrification Automobile Airplane Water Supply & Distribution
Electronics Radio & Television Agricultural Mechanization Computers
Telephone Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Highways Spacecraft
High-performance Materials Imaging Household Appliances Health Technologies
Petroleum & Petrochemical Technologies Laser & Fiber Optics Internet Nuclear Technologies
ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE 20th Century
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
ENGINEERING GRAND CHALLENGES OF THE 21st Century
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
RESTORE &
IMROVE URBAN
INFRASTRUCTURE
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Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
Reading ImagesExamine the
photograph for 10 seconds. Describe
what you see.
Divide the picture into 4 sections.
Use your hand lens to look closely at
each of the sections separately.
When might this have been
taken?
What is happening?
Can you tell the location?
What objects are featured?
Who is in the picture & what are they doing?
What technology do you see?
What questions does it make you
ask?
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
• Have you ever had something go bad in the refrigerator? • Imagine everything going bad in your refrigerator – in
tens of thousands of refrigerators – all at the same time, for months at a time…
• During natural disasters, like the ones we just saw in the historical photographs of floods in Austin, loss of electricity is big problem. There are lots of engineering challenges that resulted from Hurricane Katrina. Katrina Refrigerators are infamous for being one of the most daunting engineering challenges.
FRIDGES GONE FOUL!
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
FIX THE FOUL FRIDGE FUNK! With the growing need to care for the environment, FEMA has teamed up with the State of Louisiana to develop the Rescue robot for moving Funky Fridges. We, the engineers of Beyond Blackboards, will create models of rescue bots that can help safely move the thousands of funky fridges filled with maggots & toxic waste.
Current clean up vehicles require the use of workers to drive around and collect the recyclables.
Design a Rescuebot that will gather Funky Fridges from the streets & collect them in one location so that they can be recycled.
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
ART & FORM OF FUNKY FRIDGES
Day 3: Innovation & Local Natural Disasters
EVERYDAY OBJECTS THAT SENSE THE WORLD AROUND US
• Observe the object closely. What kind of object is it?
• Describe what you see. What is interesting, innovative, trendy, notable, or surprising?
• Connect with what you already know. Have you seen anything like this before? Do
you have any experiences with something like this?
• Generate and represent your ideas about the object. What do you think is or was the purpose of this object? When, why, and for whom do you think it was created? How does it work? What might be inside to make it work? What does the inside look like? How does it sense the world? How does it react to sensing the environment?
• Compare and contrast to other objects. How is this image similar to or different from other objects? What analogies can be made about this object?
• Generate questions about the object. What questions do you still have about the object? What do you think you have figured out about the object?
Day 4: Sensing the World Around Us
• HUNGRY to HELP!– Make chocolate asphalt cookies
• Conduct 1 of 3 different concrete experiments– When you are finished with your experiment, put
popsicle sticks standing in the wet cement of 1 cup (per student) so that you can use it later to build with for the mat. The other concrete will be crushed or tested in other ways.
Concrete Creations, Relations, & Floatation
Day 6: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
people concepts minutes6 + 3 + 5
Words + Drawings
Pass to next
person & repeat
Day 7: Moving Foul Fridges: From The Big Queasy Back to Being the Big Easy
Design for Your Environment & Goals
