While we wait for everyone to arrive, let's go to the cafeteria

for the Dance Party!

1. Let's Build a Robot

.....You can add touch sensor, light sensor, and the gripper.

2. Passive attachment

Make a one-way door - see printout

Here is another kind of one-way door

Use it to drive forward and pick up a loop.

3. Make and Eat a Robot Snack

You will make a robot from a Rice Krispies Treat Body, with a Marshmallow head,
either pretzel arms and legs or cookie wheels, and a face or control buttons
made of mini M&Ms. You will stick this all together with icing.

Once you have eaten this, and cleaned up, you will learn the Programming Song.

4. Learn to program a multi-tabbed switch block - see printout.

Make the robot do different things when it sees red, blue, green black and yellow tiles.

Show the difference between regular view and tabbed view.

Learn how to program a MyBlock

5.Gears

Do this gear activity, using the gears in the baggies.

Make a simple forklift - notice how the direction of movement has changed.

Look at this forklift, but don't build it.

Make this rack and pinion arm if you want to.

6. Now you are ready to work on the Mars Challenges: