SCIENCE

Year 8 (SEALP)

Yarra Ranges Tech School Reflection

The Day Of Wonder 

On Friday 25 August, 8.69 embarked to the newly opened Yarra Ranges Tech School to tackle the High Tech Hospital challenge.

We had previously been completing the challenge in class, so to visit the Tech School was like a culmination of our hard work.

Our aim for the day was to program robots effectively and create a 60 second or more ‘routine’ to entertain sick patients, or help the rehabilitation of recovering patients.

We were first led through an introduction of sorts, where we were trained in how to effectively use the software that programs the robots we needed to use. We used the programming software Robo Plus to program our robots.

My group was challenged to program the Puppy robot, while some other groups got the Humanoid robot.

I was able to successfully tackle the 4 C’s on the day by:

Communicating with my team effectively the whole day, and using my leader position to ensure my team was staying on track and working through any issues we faced.

Creatively thinking and thinking outside of the box to program our puppy to do wacky actions and movements, not seen before.

Collaborating with my team, and using ideas and thoughts we all had to create the ideal final routine.

Critically thinking, and resolving issues that constantly popped up throughout the day.

Overall, the day was a highly valuable opportunity to explore technology and coding. I was originally not very excited to be at the tech school, however my expectations were surpassed and I actually had a good time trying something new. I would love to try coding at the tech school again, and next time maybe have more involvement in what the programming is aimed at.

Mariah Derksen 8.69A