Two years ago I knew very little about robotics. While I still don’t know much, I do know a bunch of high school students who do! Two years ago I decided to become a mentor with our local FIRST robotics team, Team 1720 the PhyXTGears. I work with the non-build side of the team– the photojournalists, presenting teams, PR and whatever else needs to get done. 🙂
In January, the FIRST organization releases a new game challenge for all FRC teams. Our 2015 game challenge is called Recycle Rush. In a nutshell, we had to build a robot that could stack recycling totes plus a garbage can in a stack on a platform in a little over 2 minutes.
We had an awesome season! I am so proud of our students. They put in long hours, learned new skills, stretched themselves with minimal resources this year. At one competition, we won the Excellence for Engineering award. At another we won the Creativity Award! We were so shocked when our name was called!
My son put together this video covering our district events in 2015
During the events, our robot scored consistently well which kept us in the top rankings. This is the first year in a very long time that our team has qualified for the State Tournament and now the World Championship!.We were very surprised on how well we did this year!
So to celebrate robotics, I created a min-unit for younger children.
only 99 cents!
Print out and bind into a booklet! When you purchase the Robot Book, you will receive a digital file. No physical copies will be sent.
I printed the pages out and used my comb-binding machine (afflink) to make a booklet for my three younger children. There are 20 pages:
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- 1 cover
- 5 scripture verse coloring pages (ESV)
- 3 general robot coloring pages
- 2 ten frame pages
- 2 handwriting pages
- 1 letter find page
- 3 color-by-number
- 1 pencil topper printable
- 1 puzzle printable
- 1 draw and tell page
only 99 cents!
only 99 cents!
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My son is on team 4444 and I’m having my music students make pictures to send with our ft can and Lego league teams. What a wonderful resource. Good luck for your team and thanks for creating this!