ActivityBot featured in local school district video
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The local Port Townsend School District has embarked upon a curriculum of place-based education. Since we're surrounded by water, a maritime theme is central to this district-wide curriculum. The class I helped with developed some floating ROVs guided by GPS for taking photos of the bay bottom in shallow water. In this video, the Maritime Discovery Initiative is presented and includes footage taken in my class. The students first learned Spin programming using the ActivityBot. Those skills then transferred to programming the Activity Boards in the ROVs. I recommend watching the whole video, but you can skip to the robotics stuff at 4:08.
-Phil
-Phil
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I'm looking forward to the coming semester, too. Although plans have not been completely firmed up, it looks like we might be doing robot arms, with the CAD students designing the mechanical parts and the programming students making them work. I'll probably have to teach a little trig to the incoming freshmen, who won't have had it yet.
-Phil
That is what I'm talking about! We could not do it without Parallax and they wouldn't have the reach without us! It is a great partnership!