Robotics 8

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Introduction to Robotics is an 8th grade elective. Students will be introduced to Robotics, Programming and the Engineering process using the VEX IQ system. Using basic robotics concepts and the VEX programming environment, students will instruct the robot to move, turn, sense light, sound, touch and objects in its path. Working as part of a team, students will build several robots and program the robots to navigate obstacle courses of increasing complexity.


Introduction to Robotics will meet three days a week for approximately 18 weeks. The VEX IQ/EXP curriculum will be used as a basis for this course and supplemented with several digital and printed Robotics resources.

In order to build our robots, the students are learning to use the robot parts. We are practicing by building a race car powered by a rubber band. This introduces the students to the design process and working as a team.


The students today are jumping into the design process. Their task is to build a car powered by a rubber band. Ridgers are racing with ideas for their designs!