Maximum of two team entries per event per school.
Narration: Trekking in an alien world!
Learners need to imagine a place that they have never seen in real life and then write and present a narrative text about it using Lego robotics, to share with the audience. It needs to be entertaining, thought provoking, and it needs to touch emotions. Learners will need to participate in a variety of stimulating tasks to ‘find’ their narratives guided by their learning managers to stay on task. Learners will need to show and explain to the judges what stimulated their narrative idea. They will need to be able to identify the steps they took in their programming that compliment their text. The room that this activity will be held will be available the previous day for light testing.

Presentation: The Abyss!
Investigate an environment that humans do not inhabit such as (for example) Antarctica, The Grand Canyon, Mars, A Desert, The Earth’s core, or other (perhaps made up!).
Ideate Design a robot that can explore the environment considering the terrain, weather, and what the robot will be sent there for.
Produce Construct a robot that will be used as a working prop. Construct a power point to compliment the presentation. Design posters that simulate the environment and discuss how it impacted the design of the robot.
Evaluate Present your inventions to students at your school to find out if they have ideas that would help you improve and modify your robot.
Examples of an inhabitable environment could be (but aren’t limited to) Antarctica, the Earth’s core, Mars, the desert.

Documentary: Attinborough Documentary
Design and construct a robot animal, insect, arachnid, crustacean, or the like. Create a documentary about the creature using real information about it. You could use a ‘dung’ camera! Use video techniques and movie maker to make it interesting. Use camera angles, lighting, close-ups etc. Perhaps your team have more than one robot creature interacting in the ‘wild’ (no more than 4 robots in one documentary).

Mystery activity! Make sure you know how to program and use each of the four basic sensors: touch, light, sound, ultra-sonic before entering this mystery ‘on the day’ activity. You never know which one or two… may be three might be used!!! Have a basic robot built with the four sensors attached ready. You may not use them all, but you will need to be prepared!


Please contact Shontelle Lewis to register your teams for any of the mentioned activities.

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We will produce certificates of attendance for all participants.

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