SpiderSam

Robots!

In class we are getting the chance to explore the wonderful world of robots. Mr.Grey is a work experience teacher who used to work as a robotics teacher. He came into our class and brought some robots with him. One of the robots was called a Vexplorer and another robot that could pick up a tennis ball (I don’t know what it was called). Everyone got a chance to use the robots and drive them around. When I got a chance to drive one I picked up a juice box and drove over to the bucket we put them in to recycle. I dropped it in and handed the remote to someone else. I was so happy and it was so cool to be able to drive it and accomplish that. Getting to see the robots and drive them was so much fun. Mr.Grey also told us that here in the Comox valley there was going to be a robotics competition at Lake Trail High School. As soon as he said we were invited I wanted to go. I have always been really interested in robotics and science so this just made my week.

Robots are so interesting especially the way they move. They can spin, advance,reverse, move up and down and open and close a claw(if there is one).  When the robots came in we were spilt into different groups to use different robots. My group went into a different room and when we walked in there was a TV set up and you could see outside. We realized after a moment that it was a camera mounted on the robot. each of us got a chance to use the robot and pick up a juice box and put it back in the recycling bin. 

One great thing about this experience is we are being given the chance to work with something called “Lego Mind storms” which is a set of different parts that we can put together to make a robot and program it to do different things. Our old princible Mr. Berry (he now works at the school board office here in town) is buying our class two sets of them!!! I am really excited to get the chance to work with these robots and learn how to program and build them. I am really looking forward to working on this.