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'working on NESTA’s idiscover project’

March
Available Dates
8, 9, 15, 19, 22, 23, 25 and 26

DIARY
Updated 19/01/10

SNIPPETS - newsletter
Updated 16/01/10

VIDEOS

8th January
London RoboCup Regional Final
University of Westminster
This was an exceptionally good Regional Final. All the teams were great but numbers hit by snow.
Schools were:
Crown Woods/Featherstone High/Chiswick/Mill Hill County/Christs College.

9th January
idiscover Project Meeting
NESTA, London
An excellent evening meeting with the other learning providers for this project. Should be plenty of opportunity of co-operation

18th January
‘working on NESTA’s idiscover project’
ROBOSTUFF TASTER
Harris Academy, South Norwood, London
This was a great 2 hour session with 15 youngsters.
The session included a look at some interactive soft toys, showing their inner workings and how commercial toys achieved interactivity, including the Go Go Hampster and HexBug. The youngsters quickly appreciated that the "cover" for the toy was an extremely important selling point.
Then followed the making of a vibrobot from old electric toothbrushes. Rapid prototype and a proof of concept models being emphasised.
The youngsters then had a look at some commercial animation mechanisms and voice modules.
Finally they had to decide on a type of toy, the mechanisms/modules to use and any material to make their proof of concept toy "attractive", for the all day next session.
I am certainly looking forward to the event.

19th January
Frederick Bremmer School, Walthamstow
Engineering Week 1st - 5th March
Excellent meeting and my contribution for the week should be: Lego's WeDo, NXT, RCX, the Arduino and more.

REST of JANUARY
28th January
Wirral RoboCup Regional Final @ Discovery CLC
Excellent day at RoboCup Wirral Regional Final. A RCX ( Greasby)
and a NXT (St Anselm’s College) solved the problem of the gap in the path.

29th January
ROBOSTUFF
Harris Academy, South Norwood, London
‘working on NESTA’s idiscover project’
Great day with 15 Y9 at Harris Academy, South Norwood.
2nd session of RoboStuff, part of NESTA's idiscover project.
3rd day the brain