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May Madness LEGO Competition Launches! This year there will be robots in Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Each year, Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy develops a LEGO robotics game that teachers can use in their classrooms. This year’s May Madness Competition theme is in honor of the late Fred Rogers. The Robotics Academy would like to offer a special thanks to Family Communications, the Sarah Heinz House, and the Heinz Endowments for their support in the development of this competition. Teachers will find the game board, mission details, props, and rules online. If you can be in Pittsburgh on May 3rd, please plan to join us at the Sarah Heinz House for an exciting competition event.
Register for the 2008 Robotics Educators Conference on August 6-8
at Butler County Community College, near Pittsburgh, PA. Last year’s conference brought robotic educators from around the world to share what they knew about educational robotics. This year we will have more of the same! Learn how educators around the world teach robotics. Attendance is limited, so register early.
It’s not too late to submit a presentation. Conference participants are eager to learn from their peers. Send a one-page summary by May 15th to Robin Shoop.
Missions are now posted for the California University of PA Robotics Competition on April 24th. High school and technical teams are invited to register for this challenging annual event.
Register for Summer Teacher Training Courses
The Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy will be conducting five training sessions for teachers on how to use robots to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) concepts. During each five day session, teachers will learn how to build and program robots using multi-media teaching tools developed at the CMU Robotics Academy. These classes will be held at the National Robotics Engineering Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
• Teaching Robotics using LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots
• Teaching Robotics using ROBOTC and VEX Robots
Teacher training can also be conducted at your location. For more information, Contact Robin Shoop.
Check out the new and improved help documentation for ROBOTC for IFI. Test drive ROBOTC and start using industry-standard C for your VEX and LEGO robots. This new programming language has an integrated debugger to significantly reduce development time. Read the ROBOTC announcement from CMU and download a free trial version to give it a try.
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