Robots - design, build and program

This is the webpage providing information for the girl scout summer camp 2019@SICE, supported by a group of faculty members, students and staff. Please contact Prof. Yuzhen Ye if you have questions about the curriculum & activities.

Overall experience

Girl Scout Campers will create and program robots that can do simple but smart things, and design their special robots that can help people and benefit the society. The camp will provide the girl scout camper with an understanding of basic electronic circuitry, engineering, computer science, and robotics. They will gain basic programming skills (through writing programs using blocks and python) that will be useful in their future endeavors. The camp will conclude with demos and presentations for parents, guardians, and friends.

Resources

Schedules

  • Download tentative schedule
  • Day 1
  • Code in Scratch; design 3D-project in BlocksCAD; program Lego robots; learn about what robots can do.
  • Day 2
  • What are robots; demo of robotic vehicle & sensors (Lidar & camera) by Dr. Liu and his students; learn about Raspberry Pi; code in python; work with motors.
  • Day 3
  • Code in python; build sibling detector (a robot that can sense motion & take videos/photos).
  • Day 4
  • Assemble robots; tour of the protolab & 3D printing (of the projects the students designed themselves).
    Presentations/demos (the girls were amazing).