Robotics and/or Game Making courses are growing faster than Moore’s Law at High Schools and College’s in Tasmania’s South!

This showcase is a chance to see a range of 10-15 min presentations from teachers as to what they are doing (or intend to do) in their courses. 

There will be a focus on latest resources available to teachers in these areas.

All invited to attend but RSVP required.

PROGRAM UPDATE

There will be a number of 10-15 min presentations including:

• Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 focusing on Challenges you can use with your classes, plus the Engineering Process with a dash of interesting programming.

• The Photon Particle Wi-Fi Module. This a small and relatively cheap programmable chip that can be programmed and controlled via the web. It is great for integrating mobile technology and web interactivity with all kinds electronics projects.

• Pre-tertiary Game Design - Course outline and structure of the pre-tertiary course will be discussed as well as a brief look at a couple of the animation & audio design tools we’re using with students.

• 4 in 1 R & G Special
  - Drones in Schools
  - Gamestar Mechanics (Introductory Gamemaking software)
  - Current and upcoming Ed X courses in Video Game History and Game Design
  - Using Matlab and Simulink to program EV3, Arduino etc.

• Five Tips for Teaching Arduino:
  1) Interactive apps: Blynk, Arduino (Controller/Commander) or Windows Arduino Experience
  2) Grove Sensor Shield 
  3) Bluetooth 
  4) Snap4Arduino 
  5) Snap4Arduino code -> autonomous operation -> understanding C code.

• Tinkerkits, Codebugs and Meet Edison - The Middle Years