Battle of the Bots VEX Robotics (In-Person 5-Day Camp) - 4 locations - $579 (special ends 4/21)
*The event has already taken place on this date: Fri, 08/16/2024
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Monday:
- Icebreakers
- Introduction to Robots, definitions, examples, history, science, and components
- Introduction to the VEX robot system
- Introduction to programming fundamentals
- Introduction to programming the VEX robot system
- Introduction to VEX sensors
- Group hands-on project: creating your first VEX robot from scratch
- VEX robot activity, where the VEX robots will interact with each other in a team activity
Tuesday:
- Introductions to machines
- Introduction to more complex machines and their applications
- Applying the principles of machines to robotics
- Introduction to gathering of sensor data and usage of the sensor data in VEX software algorithms
- Group hands-on project where we apply our fundamental understanding of software programming to build an autonomous VEX robot that can make decisions based on sensor data autonomously without remote control input
Wednesday:
- Revisit the learnings from yesterday, looking at more real-world examples of the two key types of robots
- Creation of our second autonomous robot, which can utilize a different kind of sensor to perform a different quest autonomously
- Our autonomous robot challenge, where the various teams showcase their programming prowess and robot build skills and share their ideas and learnings
Thursday:
- Introduction to VEX competitions
- Introduction to the seven stages in the Engineering Design Process
- Go through each of the seven Engineering Design Process stages in detail
- Apply the Engineering Design Process in the creation of the robot that will participate in the end-of-day group challenge; today's challenge will be remote-controlled
- The winning team will share their ideas and tips
Friday (Final competition and presentation day)
- Creation of the final tournament field
- Application of the Engineering Design Process steps to modifications of the robot design to satisfy the new requirements of the final day team competition
- Applying the programming principles to create software that will allow the robot to perform autonomously
- Applying the Engineering Design Process to adjust the integration of the robot design and software programming
- The final tournament
- Winners explain tips and tricks that allowed their robot to emerge victorious
- End-of-camp presentations in front of parents: parents are invited to arrive at 3.30 pm for end-of-camp presentations, 30 minutes before the regular end-of-camp time
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