Course materials for Cornerstone Classical Academy (Roanoke, VA, USA) high-school robotics class, academic year 2022-23.
Course Instructor: Stuart Bowman (e.g. buffetboy2001 on GitHub, faculty listing)
NOTE: This guide will be changing continuously until the end of the 22/23 academic year.
A basic instruction to the interdisciplinary world of robotics will be covered. Students are not expected to have any technical background at all, but will learn little-by-little along the way using hands-on projects.
We’ll use the Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit to dive into robotics! The kit comes with instructions for 5 different robots.
My goal for this year is to keep the students engaged by using lego builds that give them a working robot quickly. They will get some time to explore that robot, then off to the next build. I want them to build a few of the robots in order to get familiar with:
Once the group familiarity has increased sufficiently, I want to use the second semester as a challenge time. The students will be given a collaborative task that two robots must perform together. They will work as a team to decide which two robots to bring to the challenge. Here’s how I think this year will go:
Read all about it in this presentation.