My 5th grade Space and Robotics class explored the concept of a "flash mob" dance event by watching selected YouTube videos. Discussion revolved around how people participating in a flash mob event use social media to share songs, dance choreography, video, and more. While watching, we frequently paused the video and talked about how we might translate the human dance movements into robotic programming commands for our NXT LEGO robots. How could we use audio as an inspiration for a programming challenge! The class selected a song and opened it in iTunes. Working in small groups, each group worked to choreograph a robot dance for a 15 second portion of the song. The choreography was designed using programming commands that dictated robot movement and controlled any sensors added to the robot. The program was then downloaded to the robot for testing. Eventually all choreographed portions of the song will be combined, downloaded to all robots, and then the robots will, hopefully, have a flash mob dance to our song.
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