Inventors of the future
Young programmers in Year Four at Queen’s Lower School recently spent a day with Andy Dodds of Impact Educational Services learning about control technology. Lego Robolab programmable “bricks” were used to control vehicles, barriers, traffic lights, a lift and conveyor belts. Factors such as direction, speed, time, turns, stopping and starting, using inputs (light sensors, touch sensors etc) and outputs (motors, lights and buzzers), had to be programmed in order to carry out the desired operations. The girls now appreciate that control technology is everywhere, operating anything from automatic doors at the supermarket to the ubiquitous video recorder.
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