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//Working on the robot has been very fun. We haven’t been working as a team that much though. We don’t really work together I am usually just watching. When we do work as a team though, it is really fun. We listen and that is when we get the most done. We seem to know what we are doing and we haven’t made a lot of mistakes so far. Over all……..I really like this project.

This is one of the best projects that I have done in science. It can be hard sometimes but overall it is just a fun activity. I can't wait until we start programing them.//

The robot project is really fun. Sometimes we work at a team but sometimes we sort don't. We have argued sometimes but still have fun. So far I have learned how the movement will work. The engine is attached to an axle which spins with a wheel attached too it. THis project is really fun.

This has been such a fun project this year! I have learned so many things and have had such a great time building and designing my robot. I learned that in order to make the robot go forward and backward you have to have a forward or backwards arrow on the computer with the same letters as the wires and wheels are connected to or else it will spin in circles and one of the robot wheels will not move.

This project has definitely been the best one this year. Working with my partners and partly Mr. Norko has been great. My partners and I get along pretty well, even if we do fight about "how to pimp out this baby". In this project, I love that you could make the robot your own. You could make it sing any song you could play on the player piano, give it sensors, add those awesome little Lego guys to them, and even decorate them. Working on this is the coolest, and I hope that the 6th grade will get to do something else like this later in the year!

Me and Megan's robot, (WALI) was suppose to be a bunny, but ten it just turned out to be a robot. We are trying to make it sing "The Best of Both Worlds", but we are still trying to get the motors working. So far, ours can go in circles, forward and backward. I think that I am doing the same amount of work as my partner, and that we are going to have a pretty cool robot when we are finished. This has definitely been the best lab this year.

okay. so kam & i were trying to make a tank, right? well i turned out pretty bad. i will take you through our many failures. -day 1= we made the part of the 'bot that makes it roll. 2 motors w/ wheels. 1 problem= we need three or more motors to fling something -day 2= tried more. norko showed us inventor 4. we could control the amount of power going to the motors. even that didn't make it strong enough. it rolled by itself perfectly, but the tank was the worst. -day 3= we tried the earlier mindstorm. the yellow kind. but there was no usb for us to program it with!!!! the motor was fast and already had a program in it, but we couldnt use it. -day 4= we stripped the robot of the wheels and attached two motors to a board. that board would hold the ball that was going to be flung. even at full power, both of the motors couldn't throw the ball! -day 5= there was no choice. we had to lose the dream of making a tank. -epilogue= everyone who reads this, i have advice= dont even try to make a tank! we had 2 major problems= power of motors, and the number of slots the motors can go into.

Turning Guide - go into your robo lab. when you get there, open upa new thing. the way you turn in a neat circle is to have one motor one way and the other the other way re: Turning Guide -I disagree. You do an untidy circle that way. Just make one motor go forward and you will make it turn in circles.h

While making robots, we had a lot of great times. Most people who have posted, have written how to work things. Heres some helpful hints about working with a really cranky partner that I use! (not pointing any fingers, buddies): - let them do what they want to do at first, but have them make sure you get your turn too! - tell them that they are the best partner ever and that u love them to death (maybe even a puppy-dog face works) - understand why your partners moody, and very nicely explain, "this is how you do it..." - talk to your partner calmly and don't be silly around them while they are working - don't tell your partner they are wrong, okay? you don't know what they could do to you... - you don't know, maybe they are having a bad day! thats it! if you need more, ask me! - if it still goes on after all those things, tell the student to see a guidance counselor!

When we began this project I said to myself. "This is the one time, I wish I had watched my older brother build lego robots at home, I have no idea how to wire a robot!" Eventually, I got the hang of it and our robot reached the point to when we were allowed to program it. That was really fun. Our robot can sing Doe a Deer! His name is Brian D'Arrio after one of my partner's and and mines favorite Broadway star! I wish we could record a song we wanted and then put it in our robot. That is my only regret.

This has been one of the funniest projects i have ever done. It was so much fun to do something that I haven't done before. A good tip is to put lots of creativity in to it. I think this project was a good one and if I had a choice I would vote for it to stay in the curriculum.

Alexander, Max and I were very successful and had a great time working on the project. The hardest part was getting the lights to work. When we shinned the flashlight at the light sensor and it did not work. Even though we had some trouble it was very fun and I enjoye working with the people i was working with.

I think this project is really fun and interesting. I have a question is there any way to record a song then program your robot to play it? and i am not talking about the recordings already on there. Mr. Norko taught how to set up the visual sensor. You have to put the little square that has the eyes on it. Then you have to Put which way you want it to go. Then you have to put how long you want it to do do what you set it do do. Then you tell it what to do for example: motor c forward, motor b backwards. Then it would do that for 4s if you set it to do that. This project has been very fun and is one of the best science project i have ever done!

My group was very successful in making our robot. We did not fail until we came to the light sensors. We programmed the robot to stop and then go forward after sensing light. When we tested our robot and put the flashlight in front of the sensor it didnt move. We retryed programming our robot many times and every time we tested it it didnt work. We learned that the light sensors did not work very well and we are debating on keeping the sensor.

day 1: didnt get much done we got sort of through step 1 day 2: worked a little harder coudnt really find the right pieces lebish decided to IMOPROVISE day 3:because of his improvising ways we had to sort of go back three steps day 4: we begin to despair because time is running short we work hard but dont get alot done Day 5: we decide to just to get a base and four wheels and connect to back of the truck, it sort of works we program it and i make a horrible piano song but it goes forwards and backwards and left (for some reason it wouldn't go right) Day 6: we stick on sensor and i continue to work on the attachment, we present i am not sure the days are accurate and i have a tip: dont make a song longer than 50 notes unless it is really good.

I think the project has been really cool, my group is fun to work with because everyone has something they are good at that helps us make a really cool robot! The extra pieces in the boxes can sometimes become really creative extras on your robot or help you find a piece or two. This is a awesome project especially for the girls because we get to experiment with legos!