The Great Robotics Project

For this assignment you get into groups of 2 or 3 depending on the number of students in class and will be making a robot and dealing with programming the robot on the computer. Since our lesson plan has been on The Great Gatsby you will create a robot that has something to do with the novel.

There aren't very many rules for this assignment, just make a robot that is relevant to The Great Gatsby somehow. You could make a robot that looks like Gatsby and says a line that you liked the best when reading the novel. You could remake a short scene if you wanted to. Anything you want to do you can do it for this assignment.

You will learn how to program your robot through a computer program. We will go over this in class, since its fairly simple to learn. Another requirement for this project is that your robot must be made of recyclable materials. You can color them with markers, crayons, or colored pencils, you could even paint or spray paint center pieces if you wanted to. But the robot must be made of recyclable materials.

Have fun with this project, we will spend about 3 weeks on the project.

Here are some videos about what we will do and I will include some tutorials in case you want to know more or forget about programming:

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