Sample IT Activities (Secondary Schools)

Robotic Challenge - Soccer Robot

Objective:
To enable students to learn computational thinking and hardware through soccer robots. They will learn to assemble their only robot and program them to play 2-2 football match and learn to debug and improve their programs and the robot.

Description:
The school will organise a series of basic sensors and electronic courses and coding workshops to students. The workshops include theoretical session conducted in a classroom, including basic circuits, understanding of sensors, coding, application and constraints of the soccer robot and practical session conducted in school hall for testing their robots in real competition. The school will also organise an intra-school competition or challenge for students to program and design their robot.

Hardware	Programmable soccer robots or programmable robotics kits & sensors PC / laptop / tablet computer with Internet connection
Software	Robotics SDK / APIs Common programming languages like Scratch / Javascript / C# / Python / Java / C++
Major Activities	Theoretical session covering: Coding and SDK Application Basic knowledge of electronic engineering Assemble of robot Practical session of robot coding, testing, debugging and real soccer match Share the challenges and lesson learnt
Learning Objective(s)	Enhance students' computational thinking skills, through designing their robot and assemble it and coding to control robots thus appreciating how algorithms work with physical systems Enhance students' ability to apply the IT knowledge and skills learnt Enhance students' non-technical skills including creativity and innovation, and collaboration skills
Duration	Basic session Theoretical session: 12 hours Practical session: 12 hours Moderate level session : depending on the complexity Advance session: depending on the complexity
Difficulty	Medium
Target Level	Basic session : S1 - S2 Moderate level session : S3 - S4
Target No. of Students	About 20 students per workshop