Our robot skit contains explains how we used the Engineering Design Process to complete the FLL challenge of building a robot that is able to maneuver the board and complete as many missions as possible in 2.5 minutes. The engineering design process is a 5 part process that is meant to make us critically think about what we are doing and why. The steps are Ask, Imagine, Plan, Build and Improve. We choose to do our presentation this way because we think it easily shows the different steps we took to complete our robot challenge.
First we needed to ask ourselves what we needed to do and how we were going to do it. Next, we imagined how we wanted our robot to be. We of course had a million ideas of what our robot should look like and what attachments would be useful in our missions. After that we made a plan! We needed to make a plan on how to build the main bot and then how we would achieve success on each of the missions. All that was worth it though because after all our planning we finally got to start building! Then I realized that building was the hardest part of all! We created our attachments but some of them didn't work so we needed to change them which was perfect because the last step in the engineering design process is IMPROVE! And that is really fun too! We had a chance to think critically about what the current design was doing and ways that we could improve it. Sometimes we had to go through the process multiple times on the same mission, but once we finally had success it was a great feeling!
We have started a countdown til competition....14 days!
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