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Robotics 101
Since October my daughter has been doing an after-school activity - Robotics.  Teams from all of the middle schools in the area take the same materials and construct a robot.  My daughter's school, the local charter school called the Pennington School, had two teams.  My daughter competed with both. 
At the competition there were three arenas, Galileo, Einstein and Newton.  Her teams competed in the Newton arena.
The idea is to pick up the plastic donuts with the robot and place them over the stake and stack them onto the white holders.  The robots need to avoid the obstacle in the middle and the other robots as it goes about its work.

Each robot begins on its own pad.
There are four robots in each competition.
The key is that each robot is manipulated by three different operators.
One of the four of the team acts as a spotter, telling the team the best places to go.
It requires that they work as a team!  To do so, a team must work together.  I noticed that all the teams had a hard time working together.  During the time frame leading up to the competition there were three snow days preventing ... more

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