Students determine a mission and location for the space colony and then must design features of the colony. Students explore automated systems and the circuits and programs that make them run in the Intelligent Systems Suite. Sensors, robotics mechanisms, and even Boolean Logic concepts are used when students are challenged to design and build solutions to Team challenges. Students explore telepresence by using a remote control and a small video player to maneuver a robot that has an attached video camera. Students learn about three careers involving sensors and consider ethics involved with the use of advanced technology.
Students investigate the design, structure, components, and uses for robotics.
They design and test simple robotic manipulations, investigate the functions of various robotic components, and construct and test a model based upon their own concept and design. Students learn the principles of robotics, the advantages robots have brought to industry, and the ethical issues raised by advances in bio-robotic science. Dynamic Logic Harbor - Students explore and design the brains of mechanical systems. Through the study of functions and basic Boolean Logic concepts, students learn how computer-controlled systems process information and make decisions. Students design and interpret schematics, and they use a graphical programming language to create instructions that are carried out by an external device.