Robotics And Coding

Year 9 Community Connections – Robotics and Coding

In Robotics and Coding this semester students had to complete projects based on how we can connect to the community through the use of EV3 LEGO Mindstorms. Students completed challenges in learning how to build and code robots to perform tasks and then used these skills to connect to the community through demonstrations at the Wheelers Hills Secondary College open night last term and provided coding activities to a group of Jells Park Primary school students last week.

Open night projects

For these projects students demonstrated dancing robots and also a robot which delivered a treat.

Primary school projects

Hi, my name is Aarav.

I want to talk about one of my elective – robotics and coding. Half of the other students in my class and myself were assigned to teach students in Year 6 from Jells Park Primary on how to program a robot. We were told to work in pairs and in total, there were four groups that were going to teach the kids. I was paired up with Sean O’Callaghan, and together we taught a group of four kids on how to program a robot into moving an object. Unfortunately, we ran into a minor problem. In the end, we managed to overcome it together. At the beginning of the session, we gave them a word search to get familiar with some of the words. Then, we showed them a PowerPoint presentation. While I was teaching the kids about the program and showing them how to make their own, Sean was teaching them how to build the extension, which in this case was an arm to move the object. Before we presented to the kids, we were told to create a presentation for them. We were all given about five weeks to create this presentation, organise the way we were going to teach them and other things we would like to add in our presentation such as the word search. Overall, I really enjoyed the experience of teaching students how to code a robot.

Kim Hewlett

STEM Learning Specialist