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Good Robot Projects For K-5?

Posted by timothy on from the must-deliver-candy-to-adults dept.

bugs2squash writes "Some of the parents of kids at my son's elementary school would like to set up a robotics club for the children. I see that Lego has a new line of robotics bricks called wedo (PDF) and that seems to be the path of least resistance to doing something. But I wanted to ask: What experience do all y'all have of running a robotics club for this age group (5 thru 10 years old) and what factors made it a success (or failure)? Did you use a commercial kit of parts or brew something from scratch? What kind of projects work well with kids this age? I was thinking maybe making robot flowers (yes, I know they'd all rather build robotic sharks with lasers)." (Here's another page about Wedo.)

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  1. Sharks with Lasers? Feh by R2.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    10 year old kids weren't even born when that movie was released.

    Now, Transformers on the other hand has had a lot of influence.

    --
    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
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  3. fro5t )pist. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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