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Cardbotics! Beyond Cardboard Engineering: Simple Machines, Smart Robotics

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Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom Lobby, Table 30

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Greg McDonough
Innovation Space Director
Lake Forest Country Day School
@mcdonough_greg
Greg McDonough is the Innovation Space Coordinator at Lake Forest Country Day School. He teaches Innovation and Design courses to preschool through eighth-grade students. He is passionate about making, learning, and play-based learning. Greg is a Micro:bit Champion and Makedo ambassador.

Session description

Kick your cardboard creations up a notch! Explore mechanisms, simple machines, and other engineering components with materials you can find in your recycling bin! In this hands-on session, we’ll take your STEM learning to the next level with engineering and robotics. No experience necessary - beginners are welcome.

Purpose & objective

This presentation is designed to give attendees direct, hands-on experience with coding and making. More importantly, it allows attendees to learn about making and coding simultaneously. This synergy of skills makes the Hummingbird Bit unique compared to other CS tools. Attendees will also be able to work with Makedo tools for cutting and connecting cardboard. Makedo makes cardboard construction easier and much safer for younger students.

Attendees will work collaboratively to create a castle using Makedo tools and coding robotics characters with Hummingbird Bits.

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Outline

This poster session is designed to be drop-in and highly interactive. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in any or all components.

Community Build - Using Makedo tools and cardboard, attendees will participate in a community build of a castle and an alligator.

Character Coding - Attendees will use Hummingbird Bits to code robotic castle characters, including pre-cut dragons.

Unit Share - Attendees will have access to a unit plan sharing how teachers can replicate this activity in a standards-aligned way in ELA and Social Studies classrooms.

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Supporting research

Educational Robotics and Robot Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue - Frontiers in Robotics and AI: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.662030/full

A list of research articles from Birdbrain Technologies about the development of the Hummingbird Bit: https://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/about-us/research/

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Session specifications

Topic:
Maker activities and programs
Grade level:
PK-12
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Coaches, Principals/head teachers, Teachers
Attendee devices:
Devices required
Attendee device specification:
Smartphone: iOS, Android
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:
Birdblox App for Tablets and Smartphones:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/birdblox/id1120319218
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birdbraintechnologies.birdblox&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1
Kindle Fire: https://www.amazon.com/BirdBrain-Technologies-BirdBlox/dp/B075LMPN82

Subject area:
Computer science, STEM/STEAM
ISTE Standards:
For Students:
Innovative Designer
  • Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
Computational Thinker
  • Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.
Disclosure:
The submitter of this session has been supported by a company whose product is being included in the session
Related exhibitors:
Makedo,
BirdBrain Technologies,
Cricut

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