STEM Units
The name of the small round robots we use?
What is BOLT?
The block used to make a robot move forward in a straight line.
What is a roll block?
After you've built a prototype, what is the next step in the design process?
What is to test?
The name of the most basic building blocks in the Blueprint kits.
What is a truss?
The name of the larger car-like robots we use.
What is RVR?
The name of the block used to create a picture on the robot's screen.
What is matrix animation?
This is the step where you come up with ideas for solutions to your problem or project.
What is ideate (or brainstorm)?
The name of the red pieces in the building kits.
What is a connector?
The name of the app we use to program our robots.
What is Sphero EDU?
The name of the block used to force a robot to stop and pause before continuing to the next line of code.
What is the delay block?
The first version you build of a design, before any tests or changes have been made.
What is a prototype?
The purpose of using the blue linear motion brackets in a build.
What is to create movement?
The name of the building kits we used to create our inclined planes and carnival builds.
What is a Blueprint kit?
The name of the sensor on the robot that reads the brightness in a room.
What is the ambient light sensor?
The number of steps in the design thinking process?
What is 5?
The official name of the part that helps builders get pieces apart.
What is the removal tool?
The name of the program we used in 7th grade to design your food trucks menus and advertisements?
What is Canva?
A code that allows the robot to react in one way if condition is true and a different way if the condition is false.
What is the if/then/else block?
The first step in the design thinking process when you think about who you are designing for, considering their needs and challenges related to what you will be creating.
What is empathize?
The name of the silver rods in the building kit.
What are shafts?