Over the past couple of months, Brandt has been participating in an after-school Robotics Club. Brandt has really, really enjoyed the once-a-week club taught by Melanie Hall, just for sixth graders. They have been using Lego Mindstorm to build robots and then program them to do different things. Brandt has learned the coding and had really a fun time with classmates. Here is a picture that appeared on the school's Instagram page.
David Harrison and Brandt
Today, Brandt was able to participate in a robotics competition sponsored by BYU. It was just for the school district, and teams from five different schools participated. The students were instructed to create a robot that would compete in line following and ball tossing arenas. The students were also able to participate in three lab tours around the BYU campus; the Fluids Lab, the Robotics Lab and the Mars Rover. Engineering students from BYU helped to run the arena and took the students on tours. Kent went over with Brandt and went on all the tours, and then watched he and David build their robot. Blythe and I showed up for his competition time to watch his robot do its thing.
Their robot did an excellent job of following the line. It was steady the whole way. It was also fairly slow. When some students increased the speed the accuracy decreased, so Brandt and David opted for slower but steady. The ball tossing didn't go very well, but they had an acceptable showing. I know Brandt had a great time, he likes David and has been happy to be paired with him as a partner, and he was pleased to be participating.
David filmed their robot going down the line.
It was slow.
He's got four minutes of robot swinging back and forth and back and forth and back and forth.
Gripping cinematography!
Brandt is making a coding adjustment.
That's Melanie behind him.
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