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Spring 2013
Fellows: Whitney Crooks and Laura Coughlin
- Class 1 (1/30): NXT overview - powerpoint, videos, how to program on an NXT
- Class 2 (2/6): continue Silly Walks
- Class 3 (2/13): Lunar Rover
- No class (2/20)
- Class 4 (2/27: LEGO challenge 2: Dr. E’s Global RoboZoo RoboZoo
- Class 5 (3/6): LEGO challenge 2: Dr. E’s Global RoboZoo RoboZoo
- Class 6 (3/13): LEGO challenge 2: Dr. E’s Global RoboZoo RoboZoo
- No class (3/20)
- Class 7 (3/27): Line follower
- Class 8 (4/3): Line follower
- Class 9 (4/10): Line follower
- Class 10 (4/24): Final Challenge
- 5 level activity to challenge students at different levels of understanding
- Level One: Build a car.
- Level Two: Program the car on the NXT brick to move forward, then backward.
- Level Three: Rewrite the program using LEGO Mindstorms.
- Level Four: Edit the program so the car beeps as it moves backwards.
- Level Five: Incorporate sensors so that the car stops when it runs into something or when it hears you clap.
- 5 level activity to challenge students at different levels of understanding
Fall 2012
Fellows: Whitney Crooks and Jen Scinto
Semester Outline
- First day
- What is an engineer?
- What do you need to make a city?
- Tallest building out of spaghetti and marshmallows
- Bridges (3 classes)
- Toothpicks and glue
- 1st class
- Bridge info
- Design
- Start building
- 2nd class
- Build
- Maybe test
- Debrief
- 3rd week
- test or move onto something else
- Earthquakes (2 classes)
- Legos and shake table
- 1st class
- Intro
- Design
- Build
- 2nd class
- finish building
- test
- tournament style
- debrief
- Water filtration (1 class)
- Materials
- 2 liter bottles
- Dirt, rocks, sand, gravel, coffee filters, cheese cloth, rubber bands, mesh/tool, charcoal
- Materials
- Wind turbines (1 class)
- Materials
- Cups (plastic and paper), plates (plastic and paper), paper towel rolls, pencils, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, straws, glue, duct tape
- Materials
- Mayan brick building (2 classes)
- Materials
- Red or brown air dry clay, sand, and water
- Something to cut with
- Wax paper
- Bowls
- Glue
- 1st class
- Into
- Brick making and design
- 2nd class
- build
- Materials
Spring 2012
Fellows: Amanda Rock and Emma Rubin
Semester Outline
Week 1:Paper bridges
Week 2: Animal Adaptations
Week 3: Intro to Robotics Unit 1 http://stompnetwork.org/tufts/images/pdf/intro_robotics_1_10.pdf
Build NXT Cars
Week 4: Going the distance (Lesson 2 from the Intro to Robotics Unit 1)
*Students programmed their cars to drive forward for a set amount of time and created graphs of distance vs. time. The challenge was to determine the amount of time they needed to program their cars to make them drive a specified distance.
Week 5: Platform 9 3/4
Week 6: Velociraptor
Fall 2011
Fellows: Laney Siegner and Dulce Delgado
Semester Activities Outline
Week 1: September 30
- Introductions to STOMP, our goals/purpose for the semester
- What do engineers do? Who are they? Give examples, bring in pictures, talk about EWB!
- Bring in Photo release forms, due next week
- Engineering Design Process- distribute 1 for everyone
- Mini wind turbines
Week 2: October 7
- Paper towers activity
- Images from Solar Decathalon and other architectural projects; civil engineering focus
- What are strong shapes?
- We’re all being architects today, practical example of innovation: LEED buildings
- Emphasize the “Re-design” part of the Engineering Design Process
Week 3: October 21
- Water filters activity
- Design and build a water filter to create the cleanest water in a plastic cup
- Themes of clean water and environmental engineering
Week 4: October 28
- Catapults
- Basic intro to levers
Week 5: November 4
- Ramp Car Rolling Activity
- Mechanical Engineering
Week 6: November 11
- Egg Drop!
- Planning and materials list brainstorm
- Emphasis on Engineering Design Process and open-ended projects; students generate their own list of materials to protect their eggs
Week 7: December 2
- Egg drop testing and final wrap-up of STOMP!