Day 3

We delved further into the worlds of computer science and mathematics, as our roboticists programmed their robots to negotiate a maze with a tricky 45 degree angle turn towards the end.  They had to calculate the number of times the wheels would need to turn before turning the robot in a new direction.  Using the iPad manual controls with the Commander app, campers raced the programmed robot to see if a human could outmaneuver a robot - sometimes they won, and sometimes the robot did.  They wrote scripts on paper to plan how they would create the programs in Labview, then executed them.  Some campers helped to build the tracks that we used to race, and others created a simulation using Hopscotch.