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Liz, I don't envy you. It'll be hard to keep the attention of such a diverse age group. From my experience, the 2nd and 3rd graders will be the easy ones. The 4th and 5th graders, well, I don't envy you. I am always impressed when I go to my (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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(...) I'd agree with the other poster, strongly dependant on the individuals. I worked with a group of 4-to-10 year olds for a couple years and got some useful stuff done. The biggest hurdle was programming - the younger kids didn't seem to have the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: suggestions on a mixture of 2nd to 5th graders
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<SNIP> (...) Blast it, I meant math, not match... by typo, bad! As a side note, both my 1st and 3rd grade daughters are designing competition robots, so far the 1st graders looks more likely to be successfully competitive. (19 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: suggestions on a mixture of 2nd to 5th graders
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(...) Well, as the father of a 1st grader reading and doing match at the 3rd grade level.... I'd say let them do their best to keep up with the rest, they may just surprise you! (19 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | suggestions on a mixture of 2nd to 5th graders
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Hi, I am going to hold an afterschool enrichment class designed for 3rd to 5th graders. The organizer made a mistake of taking in a lot of 2nd graders as well. Now, the class has 8 2nd graders, 10 3rd graders, 10 4th & 5th graders. Yes, I do have (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | ROBOLAB Conference - Call for Papers Extended!
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The ROBOLAB Conference ( (URL) ) will be happening for the second year in Austin, Texas from August 15th - 17th. The Call for Papers and Presentations has been extended until APRIL 1st. Please visit the web site for more information on submission. (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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Northeast Region ROBOLAB Conference Date: Friday April 8th, 2005 Location: LEGO Americas' headquarters in Enfield, CT. Purpose: To gather teachers and educators who use or plan to use ROBOLAB and LEGO Mindstorms to teach math and/or science in their (...) (19 years ago, 14-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Errors while installing brickOS 0.2.6.10
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Hi, I am a newbie. I have encountered some errors while installing brickOS 0.2.6.10. (URL) anyone encounter the same problems before? 1. When I just start cygwin, it gives me an error message like this: This application program can not be executed (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.cybermaster, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Communication Speed, PC -> RCX, LEJOS!
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(...) Hi Roger, Thank you for your help, it is a bit strange that you dont see any problems, since it is the same protocols we are using. I dont think the joystick is the problem since I have the same problem with inputs from keyboard or mouse, but (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.lego.dacta, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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(...) I could not repeat your experiment exactly because I don’t have a joy stick. So instead I wrote a pair of programs that send single byte messages between the PC and the RCX. The RCX adds 1 to the incoming byte and immediately send it back. The (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.lego.dacta, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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Hi everyone, Im working on a project with controlling a large Container Crane by 4 RCXs. I have implementet some controlling and a lot of functions in the model, including a userinterface made in Java for a laptop. The crane is controlled by a (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, lugnet.lego.dacta, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| | RCX.NET lets you program directly from .NET code
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Hi guys! Some weeks ago I was trying to build a remote controlled (web page) camera using my RCX and .NET. I tried many libraries and no one worked ok. Then I decided to built my own .NET library, and It worked perfect. Now I'm sharing this with (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.vc, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: First LEGO Robotics course at Tel-Aviv University
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(...) hehe (...) something between 9-12 (...) easy, they payed for it:) (...) yeah, but only for the course for now (...) building technic, sensors, motors and Robolab (...) well some of the basics there are from the original instructions few others (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.robotics.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: First LEGO Robotics course at Tel-Aviv University
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(...) Excellent. I want more details! From the number of kids in the pictures I assume it was for kids (right?) What age? How did those children earn this special treat? Did the university employ you as tutor? What did you cover in the course? What (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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Hi all, 2 weeks ago I finished teaching the first course of Mindstorms in Tel-Aviv University - Israel and wanted to share pictures from the entire course. (URL) Enjoy Yaron "Webrain" Dori (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.events, FTX) !
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| | Online Undergraduate Robotics Course
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As part of a Widening Participation project, the UK Open University have produced a 10 week/10 hr per week distance education undergraduate short course on Robotics and the Meaning of Life: (URL) and follow the link for T184: Robotics and the (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Robots Competition
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Hi everybody, Yesterday (27/01/04) there was a Robots Competition for junior high at Haifa. The task of the robot was to roll a U turn and then blow up a ballon. Here are some pictures I took of the robots and the competitors: (URL) (press the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.robotics.events, FTX)
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| | WANTED: LEGO Mindstorms Educators
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WANTED: Lego Mindstorms Educators Are you an educator using Lego Mindstorms Robotics? Would you like to participate in a global online pilot project using Lego Mindstorms? Wichita State University’s (WSU) College of Education Robotics Team is (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.edu, lugnet.edu)
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| | My students' creation
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I posted this in the main Robotics newsgroup but forgot to post it here, where it's actually more appropriate. Here's the link to the post: (URL) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Lego Mindstorms Mars Rover Robotics Camp
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(...) Tonya, Did you know that Lego is assisting with the www.redrovergoestomars.org website? Lego ran the competition to name MER-1 and MER-2 as "Spirit" and "Opportunity". If you go to the planetary society's website, and look at archives (...) (21 years ago, 15-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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