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I envision students applying the design process, which allows for an authentic critical thinking project. This project is for students to brainstorm a project idea that is meaningful to them, learn a coding language and implement it into their own working robot using the engineering design process. Middle school students have misconceptions about coding being boring, dull, and redundant. It requires initial goal setting, problem solving, or dream design. My kids would instantly take ownership in this project, this is very powerful and self motivating. The Hummingbird Bit Robotics kit has the ability to make this happen! With the bit boards students will have an option to use text or block-based coding through Makecode. This will enable me to differentiate instruction based on student needs. Not only will students learn a coding language they will take that skill set and create their own working robot. The Hummingbird boards enable students to envision an idea and bring it to life by building a bot, adding moving parts, sensors and LED lights and then to program the robot to interact with the students.

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I envision students applying the design process, which allows for an authentic critical thinking project. This project is for students to brainstorm a project idea that is meaningful to them, learn a coding language and implement it into their own working robot using the engineering design process. Middle school students have misconceptions about coding being boring, dull, and redundant. It requires initial goal setting, problem solving, or dream design. My kids would instantly take ownership in this project, this is very powerful and self motivating. The Hummingbird Bit Robotics kit has the ability to make this happen! With the bit boards students will have an option to use text or block-based coding through Makecode. This will enable me to differentiate instruction based on student needs. Not only will students learn a coding language they will take that skill set and create their own working robot. The Hummingbird boards enable students to envision an idea and bring it to life by building a bot, adding moving parts, sensors and LED lights and then to program the robot to interact with the students.

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