Today, two members of the SJDS Drone Leadership Team, Elle Floyd and Abbie York, worked with the 4th grade students and demonstrated several flights with our drones. Each student was allowed to see their environment from the “Drone’s Eye View”. It was an amazing experience and a valuable learning event.
This semester, students who signed up for the Robotics Programming, Engineering & Design elective have begun to work on their VEX IQ robot design. Using the engineering design process, the students create a design, build the design, and test the design on the VEX IQ playing field. Many times the initial design needs improvements so the students go back to their original design to re-evaluate it for improvements, make the desired modifications to improve their design, and then test their designed bot. This process repeats itself until its design works perfectly. It is amazing the amount of GRIT and DETERMINATION our students have!
We are practicing learning to click and drag on a mouse to develop fine motor skills and learn better mouse skills. For more practice, please go to this link.
Mrs. Tracy’s and Mrs. Lisa’s classes are official directors! We formed characters for their movies out of clay. We used Stop Motion Studio to take over 450 individual pictures to create each of the movies. We had a real blast learning how to make the characters, how to take the pictures, and how the green screen worked.
Mrs. Tracy’s Class Movie
Mrs. Lisa’s Class Movie
Special PK5-4th grades this Saturday!
ISTE Standards for Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions. Mrs. Burkes’ third grade students explore these standards through the use of robotics. They work in collaborative groups to use algorithmic thinking while exploring and finding solutions. Third graders break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop problem-solving skills. They are challenged to understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.
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Fifth graders began their study of marketing. The fifth graders had to collaboratively create a brand, a logo, a display, and a website to prepare for their “Shark Tank” demonstration.
Students in 7th grade were challenged to create a drone rescue game that could be shared with other schools and used for competition play. Each student created a challenge of rescue that centered around a theme of their choosing. Students determined the course to fly, the manipulatives to be used, the point values assigned to each manipulative, and the time frame for their game. After presenting their ideas to the Drone Leadership Team, students chose alliances to collaborated with and formed teams to combine their ideas.
Each team is still in the prototype and development stages of their rescue missions. The final team rescue challenges will be presented and voted upon to determine the ultimate challenge.
Saturday, October 26, 2019, Dawson Palmer, Dylan Yost, and Christopher Ayers were invited to present at the 10th Annual TCCA Educators Conference in Houston, Texas. They presented three sessions. The sessions were Artificial Intelligence Experiments in the Classroom, Drone Academy Leadership Team Year 3-Lessons Learned, and DJI Robomaster S1- The DJI Experience.
Standard: Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
4a: Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
4c: Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
The Drone Leadership Team worked with 7th Grade students on their skills hovering, landing, and navigating obstacles.
TCCA is one of the largest FREE EdTech conferences in the nation. Last year’s conference had over 3,000 attendees, over 120 school districts, and over 200 sessions. Our SJDS students presented last year at this conference and were accepted to present again this year! Of the 200 plus session, only five of the sessions are student-led presentations, and of those presentations, SJDS students are presenting two of them! The Drone Leadership Team Year Three-Lessons Learned and DJI RoboMaster SI-The DJI Experience are the two presentation topics our SJDS students will speak about at the TCCA 2019 Fearless Conference. Way to go SJDS!
The TCCA Conference is Saturday, October 26th, 2019 at Davis High School in Houston, Texas.
Our eighth-grade students were beyond excited when they found out that they were going to be the first students in our area to receive the innovative DJI robot, RoboMaster 1. They were even more excited to find out that there were going to be three, one for each student!
The S1 supports the Scratch and Python programming languages.
“AI technology lets the S1 recognize gestures, sounds, and even other S1 robots. Playing with the RoboMaster S1 opens the doorway to AI learning, giving you a practical introduction to the technologies of tomorrow.”
“The RoboMaster S1 is a game-changing educational robot built to unlock the potential in every learner. Inspired by DJI's annual RoboMaster robotics competition, the S1 provides users with an in-depth understanding of science, math, physics, programming, and more through captivating gameplay modes and intelligent features.”
"The Robomaster S1 – Intelligent Educational Robot – DJI." DJI Official. N. p., 2019. Web. 18 Sept. 2019.
