UF/IFAS EXTENSION FLORIDA 4-H PROJECT HANDOUT 4-H Robotics Project
Step It Up!
Pass it on! Now that you know how, share it with others. Here are ideas to get you started
Citizenship/ Leadership
• Bring robots to a school science club and show club members Are you Into It? how they work • Build a robot to pick up trash Learn how to design, build and program a robot. • Mentor younger youth in the robotics project Robots do surgery, build cars, and even vacuum floors. Explore the world of robotics • Lead a workshop teaching others by learning to build and program your own robots to solve complex and fun about robotics
challenges. In this project you will: • Explore the use of robotics and the technology that makes them work. Communication • Learn engineering and design skills, increasing understanding of mechanics and the underlying physics • Create a video about how to build a simple robot from • Gain experience in problem solving, decision-making and logical reasoning using everyday objects science process skills • Make a poster about the history • Improve communication and teamwork skills by working in teams of robots • Give a speech about how robots help us in everyday life • Start a blog about your robotics Here’s what you can do all year! experience Starting Out Learning More Expanding Horizons Healthy Living Basic Intermediate Advanced • Visit a healthcare facility to learn how robotics is used in the medical field • Identify how robots are used • Learn more advanced robot • Research the influence of • Take exercise breaks to clear and explore the benefits of design and programming technology on society using robots techniques your mind for better problem • Identify questions that involve solving • Learn about forces that affect • Practice precision data collection and build a • Program a robot to measure mechanical functions such as programming robot that can meet the need the distance of a friction and gravity • Explore circuits and electronic • Job-shadow an engineer or neighborhood walk • Discover scientific inquiry and systems programmer the engineering design process • Learn about sensors and • Engineer your own design Science • Complete basic programming discover how they are used to challenge and build a robot up challenges such as making your create a response to the task • Use math skills to make your programs more accurate robot go forwards, backwards • Create a robot that uses or turn at various degrees sensors to complete a task • Use the engineering design • Create a robot that uses a • Talk to companies that use process to improve your designs non-electric form of power, robotics about ideas for • Learn about the laws of physics that affect the way your robot such as gravity or air projects and ways robotics are functions • Visit a factory that uses robots used in real world situations • Research past and present to create a product technologies
Learn more at florida4h.org or contact your local UF/IFAS Extension County Office GR4OWIN-G TOHGETHE R Robotics: 4-H PROJECT HANDOUT
Expand Your Experiences in Robotics!
• Attend a star-gazing program at a local planetarium or science museum • Explore fields of study and careers in robotics: engineering, physics, public health and safety, and GPS/GIS. Schedule a visit with the University of Florida: Project Sharing Ideas www.ufl.edu • Register for 4-H University to attend workshops, participate in community service • Make a poster that shows events, hear keynotes, compete in contests, have fun, and meet other youth from what robots are used for across Florida who may share common interests: around the world florida4h.org/programsandevents_/ • Create and exhibit a robot • Contact your county IFAS Extension Office for workshops, activities, and events that you have designed and programmed to do a specific related to community service task • Participate in program planning, development, and implementation for new • Design and construct a robot robotics programs in your 4-H Club from found or recycled objects • Facilitate the 2012 National Youth Science Day experiment, Eco Bot Challenge. • Present a display about 4h.org/nysd companies that use robotics and how • Develop a display that describes a robotic solution to a need or problem that you have seen or encountered • Make a storybook about a Resources robot you created 4-H Project Resources Connections and Events Record Keeping Awards and Recognition
Project materials to assist youth Attending events and taking Learning to take good records of Florida’s Recognition in learning may be available advantage of opportunities that what you do and what you Program involves feedback through your county 4-H office will expand your project spend for your project is a 4-H through: or you can order directly. learning will help you become life skill. Participation Available at National 4-H: the best you can be. Contact The following record keeping Setting Goals 4-hmall.org your county 4-H office. forms can help you keep a Meeting Standards • Virtual Robotics record of your activities. Peer Competition • Junk Drawer Robotics Take part in: Cooperation • Robotics Platforms • Local workshops and day Project Report Forms can be camps found at florida4h.org Certificates, pins, ribbons, GEAR-Tech-21 (combines • 4-H County Events Day • Junior (grades 4-6) trophies, trips and/or robotics with GPS/GIS • FIRST LEGO League • Intermediate (grades 7-8) scholarships are awarded based technologies) . flrobotics.org/. • Senior (grades 9-12) on quality of performance at the 4hset.unl.edu/4hdrupal/. • Financial Summary county, district, state and Experience • Member Portfolio (ages 8-13) national levels. SeaPerch (underwater remote • 4-H Summer Day and operating vehicles) Residential Camps To learn more about current seaperch.org/. • 4-H University recognition opportunities visit the Florida 4-H website at Attend other statewide events. florida4h.org or contact your Check them out at florida 4- county 4-H agent. h.org
Learn more at florida4h.org or contact your local UF/IFAS Extension County Office 4-GRHOWINGYou TOGETHER Adapted and revised with permission from Iowa State University Extension & Outreach 4-H Youth Development. Revised by UF/IFAS Extension Florida 4-H. December 2014.