STEM ROBOTICS AT INGLEBURN HIGH SCHOOL
WELCOME!
You and your team have just been employed by a new design and innovation company. You have been asked to identify an aged care or disability issue and then design and build a robot which will help to improve their quality of life. This robot is a prototype and not to scale. As designers you must ensure the robot functions correctly, is visually appealing and is safe. A range of additional materials could be used to improve the success of your robot such as fabric for the user's comfort.
You and your team have just been employed by a new design and innovation company. You have been asked to identify an aged care or disability issue and then design and build a robot which will help to improve their quality of life. This robot is a prototype and not to scale. As designers you must ensure the robot functions correctly, is visually appealing and is safe. A range of additional materials could be used to improve the success of your robot such as fabric for the user's comfort.
Your project must include:
- Complete a series of introductory robotics challenges with supporting math challenges featured in the mission manual (student workbook)
- A video log which documents the obstacles and solutions during the design process and building of your innovation. Short section included on promoting the benefits of their prototype for aged care or disabilities. Where you successful in achieving the design brief?
- A group design folio must include:
- Design Brief
- analysing needs (design situation) * problems and opportunities
- establishing criteria for success
- Research:
- Inspirational research: existing robotics examples
- technical research: costing, robotics types, methods for controlling, movement options, material, power sourc
- Generating creative ideas (brainstorming):
- Individual students create profiles for different robot ideas
- Planning sketching robot ideas potential ideas
- The group analyses by using a check list (Criteria for success) to narrow them to the groups final idea with justification.
- Communicating ideas:
- video logo/presentation,
- pseudocode,
- Experimenting and testing ideas:
- Introductory robotics challenges
- Ongoing math lessons
- Ways to test based on inspired teacher model ( math lesson) (i.e. weights) data logging and analysing results
- student ongoing testing
- Producing design solutions
- Production modify robot for design brief
- Evaluating ideas and solutions
- peer evaluating
- video journal
- A completed and functional robotic tool which fulfills the design brief and purpose for which it was intended.
- Design Brief