Youth Enrichment | Intro to Competitive Robotics (Grades 5-7)

Intro to Competitive Robotics
Grades 5 - 7
Instructors, Nathan & Breana Norton

Intro to Competitive Robotics is a program in which students in Grades 5-7 design, build, program, and test an autonomous robot using LEGO Spike Prime to complete a set of missions. Students will learn how to research, problem solve, code and engineer throughout the program. Their creativity, ingenuity, and hard work will be presented at the regional tournament. The regional tournament is organized by First LEGO League Challenge, an international organization that encourages middle school students to engage in robotics. (For more information on First LEGO League visit www.firstlegoleague.org/about) At the tournament, our students will be judged on a presentation that highlights a solution they researched and developed to address a real-world problem facing engineers today. They will also be judged on building and programming a LEGO robot to navigate missions. The coaches will act as facilitators, guiding students in building a robot, researching new solutions and understanding core values.
Prior knowledge of robotics or programming is not required. Students will learn all skills throughout the program.
Tournament season: Weekly team meetings will be held at Westonka Middle School immediately after school. We will start meeting at the beginning of the school year and continue until the tournament. Coaches will coordinate with parents if more meetings are needed as the tournament time approaches. Attendance is important as our season progresses as each student is integral to the team.

Parent meeting: Thursday, September 10
6:00 pm
Westonka Middle School | Cafeteria

Tuesdays, September 15 - Tournament date (late November - mid December)
*not meeting November 3
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Westonka Middle School | STEM Room 135
#1379-A26F
$265 (includes team t-shirt)

Regional Tournament: date to be determined and will be communicated to parents