Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Preparing for the Regional Competition - Part 1


Today's Agenda:
  1. 15 minutes: Welcome, Icebreaker, & Overview
  2. 60 minutes: Code Your Revised Game Strategy 
    • Continue programming your game strategy! (and remember your revisions)
    • You may want to refer back to these resources: 
      • the Introduction to Game Mode tutorial, in which you will learn to use the game mode (as opposed to the free mode that you have been using up to this point). 
      • the game manual with very detailed information about the competition and rules of the game 
      • the game overview slideshow, with directions for how to complete most advanced functions of the game (it's a review of the skills challenges) 
      • the results of the regional competitions 
  3. 15 minutes: Break
  4. 90 minutes (with brain break): Continue Coding
  5. 20 minutes: Connecting to the Real World with Nova's "Meteor Strike" (Part 2)
  6. 10 minutes: Wrap-Up & Close-Out: share out (and show off!) progress

Here's a preview to our schedule:
  • This Week (Week #4):
    • review results of practice regional competition
    • work time to revise code
    • prepare for actual regional competition
  • Next Week (Week #5):
    • review results of actual regional competition
    • work time to revise code of winning team
    • learn more about space exploration and applications of STEM
    • improving bottle rocket design
  • Friday, August 15th:
    • field trip to NASA Ames for the final competition

Finished Early? Here are some activities and resources to explore: