Challenges start to kick in

Today was a successful session for us, most of the time. We biked to BS and made our start on planning our forest floor, after lots of discussion we had a idea of what we had in mind to create a Hansel and Gretel floor map but weave in a bit of adventure as well. Birds, tunnels, ponds and bridges are all apart of our design. This was our longest session yet and we wanted it to be productive. After morning tea we got down to using the Robots. Our first task was to show the Year fours how to use the NXT Mindstorm software for a simple task, to get the robot to move up to a line and stop we were successful. And then we were told that we had to get our robot to go around two milk bottles, sounds easy enough, well that wasn't the end of it. We had to get the robot to do a figure eight around them. This was the hardest task yet, we were hard at work testing, when we were in the last stages of programming our time ran out and it was time to have a quick lunch and leave. All and all, we learnt a lot of new things about the NXT Mindstorms software and it will help us a lot along the way.