Sandy La and her third-grade class Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST) visited the school tech lab Monday and learned how to use color coding to control the speed and direction of tiny robots.
Technology teacher Deb Whipple provided each student with an ozobot, a wheeled device about the size of a large gumball that is equipped on the bottom with light sensors. Each student programmed their ozobot by drawing colored lines on a piece of paper; the robot moved along the lines and recognized certain color combinations and responded by moving at certain speeds.
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TOAST third, fourth and fifth graders have been working with the ozobots since the week before Spring Recess. The robots are on loan from the NERIC Model Schools Lending Library.
