I feel very proud on the work we have done in the year of the Super Panda Galaxy, so I wish to make an archive for every year!
Team Members
Mrs.Sharma
Mr.Young
All parents
Anant D.
Monique M.
Rocco B.
Sahil L.
Kathryn Y.
Pooja Y.
Nikhil S.
Jeremy G.
Josef J.
Go Super Panda Galaxy!
Sincerely,
| Meeting Date | | Meeting Time | | Snack / Help | | Goals | | Where |
NOTE- GOALS SHOULD BE TRIED TO BE REACHED!!!
Northern Virginia/DC Region
Chantilly (11/15) - Chantilly HS
Stafford (11/15) - T Benton Gayle Middle School
Sterling 1 (11/15) - River Bend MS
Sterling 2 (11/16) - River Bend MS
We got Chantilly HS this year. So Everyone, Work Hard please!
Next meeting:
?-?
Future meetings:
11/29 to be determined on what is the plan!
Past Meetings:
| 8/6 | | 6-8 |
| 8/10 | | 2-4 | | Monique Mezher |
| 8/17 | | 2-4 | | Anant Das |
| 8/24 | | 2-4 | | Kathryn Young |
| 9/5 | | 4-7 | | --- | | Ms.Sharma's house |
| 9/7 | | 3-5 | | ? |
| 9/14 | | 3-5 | | Rocco |
| Meeting With Dinner | | 9/26 | | 4-8 | | Everyone | | Ms.Sharma's house |
| 9/28 | | 3-5 | | Ms.Sharma |
| Mini Meeting | | 10/3 | | 7-9 | | - | | Program a mission and work on robot design |
| 10/5 | | 3-5 | | Anant/ Sahil | | 3 missions working, mission planning done |
| 10/12 | | 3-5 | | Jeremy | | Missions working, identify problem, find another community & what solutions they are working on |
| 10/19 | | 3-5 | | PROGRAMMERS AND BUILDERS AT ROCCO'S, PROJECT(ERS) AT MONIQUE'S | | Josef | | 8 Missions working, start talking to experts, plan for others |
| 10/26 | | 3-5 | | Pooja | | 11 Missions working, create project solution, finish talking to experts |
| 11/2 | | 3-5 | | Monique | | 15 Missions working, polish project, share project |
| 11/9 | | 3-5 | | Rocco | | 18 Missions working, share project |
| MINI MEETING TODAY 11.1 | | from 7-8, | | Going over last minute stuff! | |
| 11/15 | | 8-6 | | Everyone | | Go to states | | Chantilly HS | | Going to Cici's Pizza (near Costco and Target) Afterwards! |
We will meet weekly for two hours each time. If you cannot meet, you should either make arrangements to borrow the robot to complete the programming assignments or come at a different time.
Not everything can be done in the meetings. This page will hopefully help guide you on things you can do at home to help prepare for meetings. Homework questions will be presented, but feel free to find whatever information interests you about the current topic. The questions are a base to look for if you need guidance, but do not feel limited by them or obligated to answer all questions. Basically, go forth and learn! Take enough notes to be able to share your learning with the team.
For research done at home, keep track of where you got the information that you used. There is a notes page that you could use in the files section.
For The week of 9/7-9/14!!
1.Research on how the melting of the Polar Ice caps effect our comunities,another comunity, and the world. Bring it in to the meeting or post it in Research age and write who it is by, remember to cite your sources!
2.Everyone should view www.firstlegoleague.org .See all the mission videos and Project info!
3. practice Do things such as turning of your car when not in use, recycling, etc, to help the environment and stop global warming!
Programming:
One
Watch NXT Introduction (8 min), Editor Introduction (18 min), Move Blocks (10 mins)on http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/html/essentials.html
Write a program to go forward 2 seconds, turn left 180 degrees, forward 1 second, turn right 180 degrees, full speed forward 1 second. Upload it to Pgm_Move_initials and think about where you will end up. If you cannot write the actual program, write down the logic to be able to quickly enter the program at the meeting.
Two
Watch Loops (3 minutes), Loop Exercise - do loop exercise and upload to Pgm_Loops_initials
Watch Waits (3 minutes) - write a program which will go forward until it hits something, then back up, turn a bit, and go foward again in a loop. Upload to Pgm_Wait_initials or take notes on your logic to bring in.
Watch Light Sensor (6 min), Light Sensor Exercise (1 min), be ready to calibrate robot and explain calibration, write a program to do the light sensor exercise. Upload to Pgm_Light_initials or take notes on your logic to bring in.
Three
Watch Viewing Sensors (8 min), on http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/html/essentials.html
Write the light viewer program. Upload it to Pgm_LightViewer_initials or write notes.
Watch Switches (5 min) and Switch Exercise (2 min) on http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/html/essentials.html
Do Switch Exercise and upload to Pgm_Switch_initials or write notes.
Be ready for programming challenges at the meeting!
Four
I need to look at it still. Carry on with tutorials!
Robot Signup
Put your name and dates you would like to have the robot at home here. The hope is to have you sign up a week in advance so that we know who gets the robot next and who they have to get it from. The convention will be that the person receiving the robot will call the person who had it last to arrange pickup. The person who had it last should bring it to the meeting or drop it off earlier.
Current Location of the Robot
?
Requests
Team member, dates
History
Team member, dates(2008)
For right now, these are guiding statements for everyone. We'll get to specific items.
Missions:
Finish tutorials!
Research:
Yes!
Experiments:
Find some and do them!
Field Trips:
Look into it - GMU? UMD? Local energy companies?
Mrs. Sharma 8/15/07
Ordered field setup and registered team
Set up meeting schedule for the next few weeks
-COMING SOONER OR LATER
-COMING SOONER OR LATER
-COMING SOONER OR LATER
New information to be used for research:
Be sure to check out the links under intro material also
Main sources of information
First Lego League
Great sites full of wonderful stuff about LEGO and robots:
Techbrick Lots of worksheets and info
Scoring Excel worksheets for scoring
fll-freak faqs from previous years' questions
Minnesota High Tech Kids
Carnegie Mellon
Oregon Robotics
All those wonderful videos
How nanotechnology used in robotics
Accumulation of different sites:
PORTAPORTAL then put LEGO-NANO in "guest" field
Programming:
Catlin Programming Tutuorial
Building:
Constructopedia
Art of LEGO design - FLL
Designs for different things:
Jenn Too
Just links that I haven't sorted yet
Exploring the Nanoworld with Lego Bricks FREE curriculum:
http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/LEGO/index.html
FREE cornell U kit:
http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/mainstreetscience/kitlib/
NASA's free curriculum:
http://www.vasc.org/erc/index.html
Energy Links
Hey guys! Check this site out-http://clf.org/general/index.asp?id=425. It tells you about how windmills work.
Look at this article about nuclear power on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Nuclear_reactor_technology
Project divisions and timelines
By November 2, 2008
here are the plans for seven missions
Grouping flood gate/ 2 carbon balls:
6 inches forward, Right turn, 32 inches forward, back 6 inches, left 45 degrees, forward 18 inches, turn right to get ball into reservoir, turn left, 12 inches, turn drop back
Grouping bike/insulation/computer-money ball:
Forward 24 inches, forward 7 inches, turn right, forward 2 inches, turn left, forward 2 inches, turn left, forward 9 inches, turn left forward 23 inches, back 11 inches, turn right, forward 14 inches, turn left forward 15 inches, right turn, forward 3 inches, right turn, forward 16 inches, turn left, back 55 inches.
We need missions!!!
Moving the red and blue peeps- finalized
Flood Gate- finalized
Green Gris Area- Not finalized
Levees missions?
A lot of others
(Here is a lot of realy good reaserch)
The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
Orchard Books, NY 2007
Page 5
When direct sunlight heads toward earth, it passes right through greenhouse gasses. Some of the sunlight is reflected back into space, but most is absorbed by the earth and is used to warm the planet. The earth radiates some of the heat back but greenhouse gasses keep it in.
The CO2 comes from: 17% commercial (electricity and heating businesses) 21% residential (electricity and heating homes) 29% industrial (factories) 33% transportation
Page 11
Green represents the amount of life on our planet.
Page 15
One tree can absorb the amount of CO2 by an average car that`s been driven 4,000 miles.
Page 48-49
Effects:
1. Poison ivy grows larger and becomes itchier
2. Fall leaves turn a dull color and don’t last long
3. Ski season gets shorter
4. Allergies are triggered and asthma worsens
5. Outdoor ice rinks shrink
6. Disease-carrying ticks and mosquitoes move up in the world
7. Bark beetle population explodes
8. Pancakes get drier
Page 59
Burning fossil fuels makes the ocean warmer which is bleaching out the coral reefs.
Many toads are extinct and many many more are endangered.
Page 71
Under the leadership of governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state of California passed a landmark bill that that made it the first state to limit global warming pollution. California has pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020 and it also pledges to bring down levels 80% below the year 1990 by the year 2050.
Page 82-84
Saving energy suggestions:
1. Start no idle rule in your school’s kiss and ride
2. Suggest changing paper in your school
3. Carpool with a friend
4. Reduce your school’s carbon footprint by finding out what age your school’s water heater is
5. Ask your principal about getting solar panels on the roof
Chat Room
The Chat Room is a page to type messages to other team members. Type who you are than who your writing to then the message.
(CLEARED from 2008-2009 season and updated for 2009-2010 season!)
Anant(to team)- Hey guys, I'd appreciate it if you guys could check the website 2 or 3 times a week. Ms.Sharma and I are the only ones that check this daily. I don't do this for my health you know! (WHAT, WHo wouldn't do this for their health).At least random people from California stop by a couple every week {weird huh... ive seen this going on for about a a long time!} We even had some one from Germany visit our site... Maybe we are getting famous???!?!?!?!
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