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The items I selected will triple the likelihood that each student will have multiple opportunities to successfully write code to direct a robot. Programming the Rev Hub for our competition robot will likely only involve 2 students. Our team will have at least 10 members. Providing an opportunity to code to only 20% of the team is unacceptable. The Ozo-Bots offer a simplified coding opportunity where students will be personally challenged rather than embarrassed by coding failures. The coding for the competition robot is done under pressure and it is more complicated than it needs to be for students who are new to coding. The team's immediate fate does not ride upon their success or failure in coding for the Ozo-Bots. Students can learn the magic of commanding machines to carry out tasks by first playing with the K'Nex Simple Machines kits. We can discuss the task(s) we want a robot to carry out. Students must answer the question, "How will our device carry out the task?" Robots are an assembly of simple machines, motors and actuators under the control of code and data. Middle School students have interacted with machines throughout their lives. Many have not carefully thought about how our helpful devices actually work, how it is that they provide us with advantages. They can investigate mechanical advantage and characteristics of motion and kinematics through playing with K'Nex. Safety gloves and eye protection will help create confidence in the students. I want new fabrication experiences to be positive. Most of the students do not have experience fabricating anything from metals. They are often fascinated by sparks but fearful. They are amazed to see how they can make and shape parts from metal. They will be free to bring their ideas into reality without fear of injury.

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The items I selected will triple the likelihood that each student will have multiple opportunities to successfully write code to direct a robot. Programming the Rev Hub for our competition robot will likely only involve 2 students. Our team will have at least 10 members. Providing an opportunity to code to only 20% of the team is unacceptable. The Ozo-Bots offer a simplified coding opportunity where students will be personally challenged rather than embarrassed by coding failures. The coding for the competition robot is done under pressure and it is more complicated than it needs to be for students who are new to coding. The team's immediate fate does not ride upon their success or failure in coding for the Ozo-Bots. Students can learn the magic of commanding machines to carry out tasks by first playing with the K'Nex Simple Machines kits. We can discuss the task(s) we want a robot to carry out. Students must answer the question, "How will our device carry out the task?" Robots are an assembly of simple machines, motors and actuators under the control of code and data. Middle School students have interacted with machines throughout their lives. Many have not carefully thought about how our helpful devices actually work, how it is that they provide us with advantages. They can investigate mechanical advantage and characteristics of motion and kinematics through playing with K'Nex. Safety gloves and eye protection will help create confidence in the students. I want new fabrication experiences to be positive. Most of the students do not have experience fabricating anything from metals. They are often fascinated by sparks but fearful. They are amazed to see how they can make and shape parts from metal. They will be free to bring their ideas into reality without fear of injury.

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