Robot Service Learning Activity

The use of robots and technology in the modern world has exponentially increased, as we gain more and more technology. Throughout human history technology has changed how we work and how we survive, from early cave men developing tools to make a task easier to the modern airliner taking hundreds of people around the world in a matter of hours. History shows that we are always looking for a way to develop, and progress as a society. Technology has advanced with us and is used to help

Hence, in 2012, I was part of the small group of students that founded the first robotics club in school. We constantly challenged each other and enrolled in multiple competitions. In the club´s first three years, we were determined to not surrender and learn from our failures to achieve success. Despite initially struggling to work together, costing us one competition, we learned how to complement each other’s strengths and become Guatemala´s best robotics team, placing in the top 3 in all competitions. In our last competition as a team, we won the Latin American championship in the VEX robotics category.

Before deciding where I wanted to do my service learning, I knew I wanted to do something that had some relevance to my degree that I will be receiving in healthcare management. I was eager to gain more experience and become more knowledgeable of how an organization operates as it relates to healthcare management. I was able to secure an opportunity to volunteer at the Dallas Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital. After completing the required VA forms, I got partnered with Mr. Alonzo Price Jr. who is a Management Analyst in Ambulatory Care, which is the department that oversees the Primary Care Providers.

Students in the 5th grade of the Old Donation School were assigned to build, code, and design a redbot to perform a public service. One of the groups, which this essay is about, made a Helpbot designed to bring medication or personal needs to the disabled. The groups were given many months to work on actually building. While some groups were still building, this group started coding. The redbot gave knowledge of how to do basic coding. Then, the group was given the task to build a public service redbot for the redbot expo at the end of the year. There were many problems, but the group finally made an idea.

I will plan activities that provide opportunities to promote and develop verbal and nonverbal communication, curiosity, exploration, solving problems and physical skills. These activities should be easy to adapt for children with physical and learning disabilities.

Team 2470 may not be the most organized team: the robot’s main components may go on in the last hours, tape drawers hold everything from pliers to saws, and metric-sized bolts may cause everlasting annoyance in their perennial placement on the robot. Still, this team has the right combination of quirks and science to ignite the fire of inspiration in its students and mentors. Team 2470’s fight to create and keep robotics as a sport for everyone has lasted through the years. They have not weathered the years completely alone, as they have grown a large community of support. Traversing outside of their cozy robotics room, this team has gone out to the community to shine. While this team cannot boast an assembly-line process, they can boast their inspiring influence.

In conclusion, the two Latino students, Lorenzo Santillan and Christian Argega; built a robot in their goal and became a robotics team. Therefore, their robot was a champion

As president of Henderson County 4-H, part of my office was to collaborate with my officers and the officers of the clubs in my county. This collaboration offered me counsel for wise decisions, and gave me insights into the desires and needs of the members of Henderson County 4-H. Knowing the needs and desires for the future of 4-H in Henderson County, allowed me to effectively and accurately represent the members of my county. Another big teamwork activity I participated in was being an assistant leader at District 5 Yes Camp. I was the only assistant leader from my county, so I had only met the five other assistant leaders that night. We were required to collaborate together and come up with fun games for the 4-Her’s to compete in for time they were at camp. At the end of the camp, not only did the 4-Her’s have fun, but we as the assistant leaders had fun as well. The final teamwork activity I would like to talk about is when I was placed in charge of two teams of junior 4-Her’s and charged with the responsibility of educating them in the robotics project. I had always wanted to learn more about the Robotics project, but this was the first time it would be available in my

“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.” Irobot, a researcher who wants to know the past, A woman who's been through so much, and so many robots. A reporter is writing a story on the history of robots, and what's a better place to start than the CEO of the robot production company. Susan Calvin is the chief of us robotics tells a reporter about how robotics have changed over her many years of being in the company. She tells of stories in chronological order. From a nurse maid robot named robby to a robot who believes it is the highest form of life. She talks about how robots were banned for use on earth and her own experiences. Irobot the theme is made clear; change, everything changes and change inevitable. and the author, Isaac Asimov, shows us this with Lots of flashback stories and dialogue. Change is happening everywhere, sometimes you may not see it, sometimes it's happened right in front of you, either way it always happens

It was the fall of 2014 when FIRST Lego League Team #9647, The Legosauri, called its first meeting to order. This was my second year on the team, and my third year of FLL. Many of our team members, including myself, would be leaving the team next year, and we wanted to end the year by achieving our longtime goal: advancing to the state championships. We had done well last year, but our team had suffered from a lack of organization. This year, we decided to elect three leaders, who would be responsible for planning and organizing a part of the team. FIRST Lego League consists of two main parts: the Robot Game, where teams program a LEGO robot to complete missions on a challenge mat, and the Innovative Solution project, where teams create a proposed solution to a real-world problem related to the year's theme, which was improving education. Two leaders would oversee these parts, while the third leader was tasked with ensuring our team was working together smoothly. As I had worked on the project for the past two years, I was chosen as the Innovative Solution Coordinator. As a team leader, I was personally responsible for the success of my team. I had the challenge of not only making key project decisions but also of delegating responsibilities, managing project timelines, and being personally responsible for the finished product. I learned how to organize a team, reach my goals, and make things happen.

Supporting the FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology) family of programs is part of these efforts. FIRST Robotics Competition combines science and technology with the excitement of sport. FIRST Tech Challenge takes it a step further. Beyond the design and the build, participants must program and operate their robots to win a floor game. With the combined experience of over two centuries with FIRST, their staff attends to robot competitions all year long. Clearly, they are experts in this space. That is why AndyMark is a leading manufacturer and distributor of robotic parts for the competition and mobility

We are the Niceville High School Robotics Team, the Radioactive Roaches. We participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). FIRST is For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology and is an international program that reaches out to students aged 6-18 and promotes the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) in “changing our culture… for the better”. Currently the team consists of 20 students across all high school grade levels. The Radioactive Roaches are looking to build a robot for demonstrative purposes that could be described as “flashy” and “cool”. The team accepts all who want to join. It fosters STEM ideas in that the students build the robots from scratch. These robots go to competitions, in

I spoke to you earlier about the idea of starting a middle school robotics team. I am currently a junior at the High School and a member of the high school team. I have learned so much through the robotics experiences. I think that if we bring this over to your students, it will spark their interest to join when they get to the high school. We discussed that a great way to do this would be to have them see us in action. We need your help to accomplish this it would be so great if you could bring over a couple of 8th and 7th graders who stay after school to see us. We have robotics Mondays and Wednesdays at 3:30 to

The teacher also needs to take in consideration of the differentiation of specific students e.g. with disability, lower body strength which is an important factor in relation to body size for independent students in performing motor skills. The team will continue until everyone has had a turn to jump all the way to the turning point and back to the starting point, the first team to finish is the winner. In consideration of safety of this resource will vary depending on their disability for specific students in the class and the activity may be need to be modified for all students to have the opportunity to participate. For example in this circumstance a child that finds it difficult to jump in the sack bag could be placed in an individual team that does not use sack bags instead they jump throughout the track without using a sack bag e.g. sack bag versus no sack

Not only can group mates get to know each other more, but also to exchange ideas so that we know what each other want for the project. One day before our first meeting, Tiffany said the story wasn’t right and started to change it. I think if we discussed more the ideas on the story beforehand, we could have distributed the work more evenly and did not have to change the script so abruptly. In addition, I believe we should have worked together to complete every task instead of assigning different tasks to different members of the group. In this way, every member knows our project progress because we are working on it together. These two actions combined will enable us to discuss our ideas in person and give feedbacks clearly and effectively. In this project, we mostly communicated on WhatsApp, which was not efficient enough. It is a good tool to keep us all connected but not a good communication channel for discussing project