Robotics (Elective)

Robotics was an elective at IPoly where students are taught how to design, program, and build robots to solve challenges. It was offered as a fall elective. The elective was taught by David Holt until leaving the school in Spring 2017. The elective is no longer available.

Curriculum
Students are put into groups of 3. The first day is devoted to basic concepts, such as "computers aren't smart" and center of mass. By the second week, students are given their first challenge, a simple racing buggy. After completing a challenge, the team then moves on to the next challenge, eventually culminating in building a line following robot.

The class used LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2,0, a robotics kit created by LEGO.