​Due Dates

Wednesday, January 31 - Have read the first section of Reason (I-Robot)

Today the students complete a due date calendar for the museum project components. The students should have also completed a sketch of the exhibit they hope to create. Over the next several days I will be compiling some of this information so that everyone has some idea of what each team is required to do. 

Tomorrow, Raisa is going to do a lesson on information graphics. This should help the students think about ways of presenting information. After the lesson, the real work of building the museum begins. 

Each museum design team has created a contract that states what they agree to produce, make, and build for the museum. I will be making this contracts available online so that everyone is aware of what each team is responsible for creating. I should have that up by Wednesday. If the teams all follow through on what they have agreed to create, it should be a great museum. Lots of work to do. 

There are no due dates.
The students spent the morning thinking about what elements they will include in their exhibits. 

Museum Development
Students should have completed and submitted their final Epitome posters. 
We have turned our attention to museum development. Our focus is Robots and Robotics. 
Specific Topics by Team
Tobyn and Laura = Drones
Lucy, Laura, and Conner = Security Robots
Lincoln and Mekhi = How Robots Work
Matt and Nina = Fictional Robots
Brayden and Chip = Food Robots
Jacob = Self Driving Cars
JP = Rescue Robots
Sam and Clara = Robot of Today and Tomorrow
Bohao, Rustam, and Fletcher = Military Robots
Simon and Ryan = Artificial Intelligence
Rachael and Macy = Childcare and Healthcare
Hilde and Laura = Farming
Terefech = Household Robots
We are currently examining what makes for a good exhibit. 
Programming Pepper
Students have selected a task that they will try to program Pepper to do. 
Task List
Jason, Brayden, and Nina =  pull out a chair
Simon, Rusty, Bohao, and Fletcher = get attendance forms
Chip = hang up coat
Lucy, Hilde, Higgs, and Laura = delivering a message to a classroom
Mekhi, Lincoln, Rachael, and Macy = deliver recess options to a classroom
Conner, JP, and Jacob = set up dodgeball rope
Matt = deliver recess options to classroom
Tobyn = pick up pencil
Terefech = open door
The first step in the process of programming Pepper is developing a flowchart of what you need to program. We have been discussing flowcharts and learning to use a computer-based flowcharting program.

Due Dates
Wednesday, January 24 - Robot Museum Epitome Poster
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Step 1: Creating an Epitome Poster
An epitome is the essence of something. It can also be thought of as the single most important thing or aspect of something. Where the Robots and Robotics Museum is concerned, your epitomes will be the most important things a person will learn and take away from your exhibit.

Before you begin to design your exhibit, state what the epitomes of your exhibit will be. In other words, describe the most important things that your audience will learn from your exhibit.

​Create a one page poster that lists your three main epitomes. Please make sure that the names of the group members are at the top of the poster. Before you print out this poster, show it to Mark or Raisa. Once your poster has been checked and passed, print it out, glue it to a nice piece of construction paper, and give it to Mark.

We finished a few more presentation today. Assessments of those presentations will come home over the weekend. We should finish the last presentations on Monday. We will then turn our attention to museum design and figuring out how to program Pepper to do some cool stuff. ​

Due to the two hour delay, the essential question presentations have been moved to Thursday morning. 

Due Dates
Wednesday, January 17 - Students should be ready to present their essential questions research. 

Robot Museum Essential Questions Presentation Requirements

In general…

• Create a presentation that highlights the answers to your essential questions.
  
• Provide evidence that you have completely answered all of your essential questions.
  
• For each essential question, focus on the most important points.
  
• For each essential question, provide the address of the website where you found the information or provide the details of how you obtained the information.
  
• The presentation should be organized in a way that makes sense. Group together similar essential questions and your responses.
  
• Provide images or graphics that support your important points.
  
• As a conclusion, state what you think are the three most important things you learned about your topic.
  
• All members of the team must participate in the presentation.
  

Due Dates
Thursday, January 11 - Each student should have created a web page for their MR Magazine article.
Friday, January 12 - Students should have finished reading Robbie (part of I, Robot). We will be having a quiz on the story at around 10:30.  

The team of Brayden, Sam, Jacob, and Jason won the Square Bot Challenge. I am happy to say that every team successfully built and raced a robot. Awesome job everyone.
Due Date -
Thursday, January 11 - Each student should have created a web page for their MR Magazine article.