Coding with Bee bots, Ozobots, and Sphero balls.

Over the next 3 weeks the Middles will be exploring how to code and manipulate these mini robots to make them move where we want.

The Sphero balls were insane!!! I loved them, because they can move as fast as a click. Also you could put covers on them, to make them go fast or slow. I also used the Ozobots and I made my Ozobot Track, The graffiti S and the Halloween maze. It was really cool because the Ozobot followed the lines that you drew. It's a 5 Star Rating from me. - Declan

In I.C.T we played with some bee bots on the top of the bee bots the was keys which had  Forward, Backwards, Left and Right. My partner was Sophie and we made a course for the bee bot with sticky tape it was really fun. We had turns of making a course for the bee bot but sometimes I accidentally pressed Left when i was meant to go Right. It was very fun experience Everyone very much enjoyed it - Georgie 

Group 1 was with the beebots, group 2 was with the sphero balls, group 3 was with the ozobots.

I was with the beebots and you had to make a track and your partner had to make the bee bot go along the track. I noticed there were different ways to turn and it was hard to get it right - Josh

I did the Ozobots with Deco, Hamish and Alexa, Ozobots are small robots they just follow lines, each line has a colour code that makes it go fast or slow.  I think the Ozobots are really fun - Joel

 
Ryan and me did Ozobots and we had to draw lines. Mine went off track and there was no black line and the tornado was so cool and the was slow one went like a snail and I did it and there 1 min to get across a line. Victoria     

It was really fun because you get to work with a partner and do Ozo bots, Bee bots or Sphero balls. When doing the Ozobots I noticed you have to be careful about where you draw the black line on the paper. It can't be too close to the edge or the ozobot stops - Maddie W

"Code the Future" mentor visits the Seniors

Madison – Today Swarandeep came to St Luke’s and showed the Seniors his passion project which is making circuit boards

Piers – We learn a lot about how we could use the Arduino and how we could use it for ourselves

Jackson – I found it very intriguing because we can find the stuff in hardware shops and we can make it for ourselves. There’s no limit to our imagination

Tully – I found it very interesting, because now when we get the Arduino, we can create better stuff.

Cooper T – I thought it was cool to look at the little electronic thing. I would like to make something with it.

Lachlan – Swarandeep showed us the small computer and it was amazing how much it could connect to and read

Natalia – I was amazed that such a simple looking machine could do so much.

Isabella – It was cool how they could make the technology of a computer so small and I also didn’t know that they could do that.

Zac – I found it interesting about the technology that we don’t know about and that tech can do so much stuff

Ollie – I thought it was really interesting technology and very unique. You could develop the Arduino and create even better things

Computer Science

Next week is...

 

In Middle S we will be learning about computer programming or coding by taking part in the "Hour of Code" on Monday.
If you would like to try some coding programs over the weekend, http://studio.code.org/ is a good place to start.