Learn Programming with Lego Mindstorms EV3 - Basic Workshop

Type: Interactive Workshop in 2 parts ( 2 days x 4 hours ).

The workshop is organized and implemented by our team of 2 experienced people.

Intended age range: children and adolescents aged 10 to 16.

The minimum amount of participants per workshop is 10 up to a maximum of 16 participants per workshop.

The parents do not participate in the workshop.

Description

After a short introduction to the basic concepts of IT andthe components of the Lego Mindstorms models, the children build a robot based on the instructions and receive a series of 10 exercises to complete. In groups of 2 children per team within a defined time frame (roughly 20 to 30 mins per exercise), each team works out the solutions for the exercises step by step:

Preparation of the program instructions on the tablet/computer and upload to the robot.

Running the program on the individual team's playground and fine tune the program via trial-and-error.

At the end of each task, each team presents their solution to the other teams.

In the last exercise of the workshop, all teams participate in a competition on the common playground.

Part 1:

Section A (60 min): A short introduction into the basic concepts of IT and the Lego Mindstorms components.

What is an EV3 Brick?
How to display text / play sounds and show the color status information on the brick.
How to connect the EV3 Brick to sensors and motors.
Exercise 1: Learn EV3 brick - start/stop , connect sensors and motors
Learn how to start programming EV3 robot

Exercise 2: Write the "Hello to the Lego Mindstorm World!" program and execute it on the brick

Break (15 min)

Section B (90 min): Building a tracker robot based on the instructions and programming it to:

Exercise 3: Drive forward / backward - Visualise your path with the pen.
Exercise 4: Rotate left to 90, 180 and 360 degrees - Visualize your path with the pen.

Break (15 min)

Section C (60 min): Building a tracker robot based on the instructions and programming it to:

Exercise 5: Program the robot to drive along a specific path - Visualise your path with the pen.

Part 2:

Section A (60 min): Building a tracker robot based on the instructions and programming it to:

Exercise 6: Clean the path.
Exercise 7: Catch and move the item.

Break (15 min)

Section B (90 min): Building a tracker robot based on the instructions and programming it to:

Exercise 8: Shoot object down
Exercise 9: Find the path with a specific color.

Break (15 min)

Section C (60 min): Building a tracker robot based on the instructions and programming it to:

Exercise 10: Find your way by using the color and distance sensors.
Preparation for the competition: Fine-tune your robot and program in the individual team playground.
In the competition on the common playground Arena all teams will run their fine-tuned robots. We will time the robots and the robot with the best time wins!

Clean up of each participants' desk and end of session.