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ALERT BAR BIE IS OUT OF THE TOY BOX!

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Group three members are Hannah, Lauren and Kimberly and we are trying to control our robot BARBIE ©.

Testing For these few sessions we have been working on basically making it move. So far, we have made it go round in circles and now we are going to fiddle with the programming to make it reverse.

Pedestrian Challenge Today is the Pedestrian Challenge. The task is to make your robot go as __close__ (to the little man on the white line) as you possibly can. So far, we have made a couple of measurements to work out how far barbie should travel. This is one of them: We were over - joyed to get a 9.5/10 19.0 __ * 8.7= __  133.0

Introduce the Scoresheet - We worked on the First Task: 360 turn Well our group weren't really expecting this. We thought you just made a dance. Anyway the first task was a 360 degree turn. Our group were hoping to get this over and done with so we were able to get on to our snake as quickly as possible. We did finish our first task and got full marks. We had no time left to do our snake in that session.

Snake The Snake was challenging we had a great snake at the start except it went forever and our reversing wasn't that spot on either. We got a 3/5 for this one. This Challenge went over a couple of weeks as most groups found it difficult. One of the things we had to do to problem solve were deduct some wheel rotations as our right side had bigger turns compared to the left.

Shimmey The Shimmey was fun. We weren't sure of what to do at the start or where to start. We made some good choices in this one. We realised that we had to start with a half turn and then go full turns for a while and then half turns. We got a 5/5 for our Shimmey!

2-D Shape We couldn't decide on what shape to do at the start but we all eventually agreed on the square. We took a look on the programming guide and found how to buld a square. We copied this and made it for our robot. However until we realised that one of our wheel were stronger it went all wonky and we changed it to an irregular quadilatral. Then Hannah had a great idea and she explained to us that if we copy this we can make it into an octagon. It was all over to Hannah then with Kimberly and I throwing a few suggestions in along the way. We ended up making it perfect so thanks to Hannah, Ms Cooper gave us a 5/5

Dance for Barbie Our dance is going great so far, however, to be honest there have been many glitches. But we are trying and whether or not we go good in this we are happy with what we get and we won't worry what any other group says because we know the effort that we have put into this. Our group gets along well which is why I think that we got mostly 5/5 for our challenges. Our dance is to Barbie Girl. And we have enjoyed programming Barbie a lot.

Presenting our Barbie dance

It was time to present our dance we were a bit shaky as we had not tested the dance with the music. We had props and a costume for our robot. We had a PINK carpet, barbie dolls surrounding her and a PINK bridge. All was going good until she decided to dance out of the circle. we all had a great time making up the dance even when we had our ups and downs.

By Hannah, Kimberly and Lauren! :)