Today was another adventurous day on University of Kentucky’s Campus! Students have settled into the camp routines. The beginnings of summer hyperness and jitters settled down…a little bit 🙂 We are so thankful for another great group of students this year!
The red and blue groups were busy today with Dr. Thomas and making flying objects. They used the engineering design process and lots of mathematics (surface area) and physics to create a flying object out of different types of materials and did some challenges around how far they could get it to fly. They brought home some of the creative flying inventions today. I hope they explained them to you and why they used the materials they did! Many were amazed about how airplanes fly in the air! In robotics, they got to do some fun open builds, trying out the different motor and movement capabilities. They got creative and built dinosaurs, caterpillars, snakes, etc. They were quite impressed with themselves!
The yellow and green groups got to play with circuits and even create their own circuit boards with their wires and soldering irons. Their precision and attention to detail as they soldered was truly amazing! In robotics, they started the first of their challenges and had fun trying out the programming features and trying to complete the challenge. Tomorrow they will dive into creating their own robot challenge!
The Vex robotics group continued their building today. Many of the groups finished and got to start trying out their builds with their remotes. The groups were excited about the claws on their robots and are anxious to get into programming and the field tomorrow to really test their robot design and programming skills!
In their own words…
- I would like more about this topic so I can maybe one day build a real airplane.
- I likeD the forses. of flite.
- that there is something called air moliclaos
- I learned how to solder, and the difference between bread bords and circet bords.
- How do circuits affect in the real world because it is really important.
Conversation Starters…
Red/Blue Groups
- What are the 4 forces of flight?
- How does an airplane fly in the air?
- What different materials did you use to build your airplane today? Did your designs work the way you thought they would? What was frustrating about building your airplane? What was fun about designing your airplane?
- What animal or insect or reptile did you build with your robot kit today? What did you make it do? How did you make it do that?
Yellow/Green Groups
- What’s the difference between a circuit board and a breadboard?
- Why are circuits important?
- Tell me how you soldered today. What did you solder together? How does your circuit work?
- What challenge(s) did you complete with your robot today?
Vex Robotics
- How far did you get in building your robot base today? What changes did you make to your robot as you were building it today?
- What was it like to drive your robot?
- How do you think your robot will do tomorrow when you start programming it?
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