Fifth Grade Presentation

Friday, March 6, 2020

The Senior School Whoa!Bots did a robotics presentation for the fifth grade students prior to their performance in their Bots! musical that will take place in May.

Students had an opportunity to ask questions about the robots, the competition, and robotics in general. After a few rounds of intense competition, the students quickly realized that a robotics competition is as much a test in resilience as it is a test of technical innovation. They saw the Whoa!Bots experience the joy of success and the frustration of program failures - the emotional roller coaster of a real competition.

Joe Jackson helped them see the correlation between robotics and their upcoming musical: Bots!

The Whoa!Bots explained to the students how the robots and the competition worked and how they collaborated to make a working robot that completed the challenges of the game. They also showed the students that you always have to ready for anything: no matter how much practice you do and how many times you run a program, you never know how the robot will perform during the real competition. During their rounds of simulated competition, some of the robots broke down and had different issues, and so the team showed the students how a team could work through those issues even in the heat of a match.