Year 5H Sumo Challenge

Students in Year 5H were very excited to reach the culmination of their Digital Technologies unit of work in recent weeks with a Robot Sumo challenge.  To be a successful participant in the Robot Sumo challenge, students were required to design, build and code a robot that could operate autonomously and use at least one input sensor to react to changes in its immediate area.

                          

 

Students had the option of using iPads or Laptops to use a visual coding language to program their robots. We learned a great deal about the importance of iteration and branching to make our codes successful and efficient. Students had a few weeks of testing and trialling before the competition, with many students choosing to work in the library during their lunch breaks to design the best combination of robot construction and computer code.