By Merryn Burgess
On Monday 17th November, we went on a school trip to Scalloway and had a fantastic robotics lesson with Eleanor!
The lesson contained, us measuring the circumference of a robot’s wheel, us slowly trying to drive the robot across a track to hit (but not knock over) a Lego figure and driving our robots along a shape!
First, in partners we got a box full of measuring systems and had to care fully measure the correct circumference of the wheel (It was 17.5cm). Then we had to fill out a sheet. You had to times 17.5 by 1, 3, 5.4 and 10. Basically if we rolled the robot 3 times it would have travelled 52.5 cm.
The second thing we did (in the same partners) was, figure out how to make our robots drive towards a little logo figure hit it but NOT knock it over. Whoever’s robot got closest to the Logo figure won a Lego man!
Lastly, we had to come up with a unique shape, mark it out on the floor using masking tape and figure out a way to get our robots to drive around it using the app on the iPad.
Also, we could make our robot light up and make noises!
This was an amazing activity planned by Eleanor, Mrs Emslie and Miss Pearson. It taught us a lot of skills and we really hope that Eleanor can come to Whiteness soon for another STEM day!
