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Eighth grade students are engaging in a hands-on robotics project, assembling the Basebot build for their VEX IQ robots. This initiative aims to integrate sensors and coding into their designs.
Upon completing the Basebots, students will attach various sensors and participate in two activities. The "Team Freeze Tag Competition" involves equipping robots with a bumper sensor that freezes the bot when tagged by another team's robot. This activity explores sensor functionality in a fun and strategic manner.
In the "Capture the Cube" Challenge, students design and attach a claw mechanism to their robots, manually controlled using the robot's controller. Students will also plan pseudocode and program their robots to autonomously navigate a path and pick up blocks in a specific pattern.
These activities promote teamwork, problem-solving, critical thinking, coding, and engineering skills applied to real-world challenges.
