Week 2 - Day 4

On day four our roboticists designed and played a game that was a combination of soccer and capture the flag.  Campers, built the playing field from PVC parts,  drove robots using the iPad Commander app and used the medium motor and arm they built on day 3 to retrieve the cargo box from the opponent's side and return it to the goal on the other side of the field.  Meanwhile, other campers built fortresses to defend against programmed ev3 robots using loops to repeatedly attack the strongholds.  We explored more sensors, including the color sensor.  Campers learned about lightwaves, amplitude, and frequency, and how the robot can make decisions based on that information.  Students also learned about conditional statements in programming, and wrote their own programs using conditional statements.