Jacob participated in the Lego Mindstorm class after school this year. Mindstorm is for 5th and 6th graders. The fifth grade challenge was to work with a partner to build and program a lego robot that could navigate itself through a maze (The sixth grade works on a challenge). Jacob went to the robotics class once a week for about an hour and a half for about 10-12 weeks. The finale to this class was a competition at Lagoon with other schools to see who had the best/fastest robot. The picture above is Jacob's robot going through a practice maze at the school. This is Jacob and his partner, Spencer, ready for competition at Lagoon.
All the fifth graders are lined up and waiting for their turn to interview.
Looking thoughtful and maybe a little nervous.
The first part of the competition is an interview with an engineer to explain how they built and programed their robot.
Each partnership has two interviews. This is the second interview, where they again had to explain how they developed their robot. The final part of the competition is the actual maze. The robot has one chance to run through a maze and it is timed. The winners are determined by a combination of interview scores and maze time. Jacob didn't win, but they did well, had fun, and learned a lot.
I went with Jacob to Lagoon as a "chaperone". This is a quick selfie of us.
A picture of Jacob and some of his mindstorm buddies. The two boys in the middle took 3rd place.
This is a picture of the whole JP Steward mindstorm team (5th and 6th graders). Jacob is sitting on the bench, the 2nd from the left. It was a fun day!
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