Robots and Coding: Navigation and Autonomous Vehicles
Students work in teams to plan, code, and debug robots to pass a range of challenges.
In this hands-on workshop students program a robot using block-based coding. Students tackle a variety of coding challenges, utilising branching, iteration and variables and explore real world applications of these skills.
This workshop is appropriate for new to experienced coders, with a variety of challenge levels available within a class.
Students will experience
- Using iPads to code robots with a general-purpose block-based programming language.
- A range of open-ended coding challenges, requiring creative algorithmic thinking.
- Discussing, testing, and assessing different programming approaches to a challenge.
- Debugging robots, by collaboratively analysing and modifying their code.
Students will learn
- How robots receive input data from a variety of hardware and software sensors, process it according to their programming, and respond with a variety of outputs.
- How to apply computational thinking to realistic programming applications.
- How to write code with sequential commands, including the use of branching, iteration and variables.
- About some of the ethical and functional impacts and considerations around the real-world use of robots.
Other key information
- This program uses mBots and iPads.
Availability
Terms 1–4, Monday to Friday
Duration: 45 minutes
Student information
Years 7 to 8
Minimum 15 students
Maximum 28 students
Bookings
Workshop
Presented by a museum educator
Victorian Curriculum Links
Digital Technologies: Levels 7 and 8
Creating digital solutions
- define and decompose real-world problems by taking into account functional requirements and constraints (VC2TDI8C01)
- implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language (VC2TDI8C04)
Design and Technologies: Levels 7 and 8
Technologies and society
- how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical factors to design and produce products, services and environments (VC2TDE8S01)
- the impacts of innovation and the development of technologies on designed solutions for ethical considerations including sustainable living (VC2TDE8S02)
Accessibility
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Museums Victoria Learning Access Fund
The Museums Victoria Learning Access Fund aims to enhance access to our museums (Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks and Immigration Museum), programs and events by offering free or subsidised education programs for eligible schools. Find out more about the fund.
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