Three Robot Control Systems: Robot Brains for RoboDawgs!
My students need the hardware for three robot control systems. Each system includes a robot controller (the brain), a power distribution board and a pnuematic module.
All students need to be prepared to work and function in a technological society. Our students advance their educations by building and programming robots. However, if you visit us, you will find that it is not about the robots! It's about developing mature, capable and college ready young people!
The 70 students on our robotics team are an excellent cross-section of our school.
Our high school is a suburban, Michigan school of about 1800 students. In the robotics program, we effectively serve many types of students from high achieving honors students, to high achieving special education students. Many of these students have left us to attend prestigious colleges and have gone on to interesting and rewarding STEM careers. Last year, we graduated 22 seniors from the program. This group accumulated combined offers of $700,000 in scholarships. In their time with us, our students develop skills that few high school students achieve before college.
My Project
The robot control systems we are requesting are the brains of our robots! Our students will construct three 120 pound robots that are up to five feet tall and capable of playing a predetermined contest game. They will assemble their robots around these control systems, and in the process, learn a great deal about electronics, mechanics, pneumatics and programming.
More importantly, they will learn how to become and act like a team. They will learn how to build a complex piece of equipment under significant time pressure. They will learn to work together to keep it running during emotionally charged, high intensity robotics competitions. When things don't go their way, they will learn to rise to the occasion instead of allowing doubt and complacency to define their experience. Our students will learn to become the incredible people that they truly are.
The robot control systems we are requesting will help our students to learn how math and science are so much more than just subjects in school.
They will learn that what they are accomplishing in the classroom has real world applications. They will also learn that math, science and engineering are incredible fun.
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