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Description

Scouts to write the code/instructions for a team of robots to pitch a tent.

The “robots” assemble the tent exactly as per instructions.

Resources

Paper and pen
Tent (of your choice) per patrol

Instructions

Scouts challenged to write an exact set of instructions / code for a team of robots to pitch a tent.

Suggestion- tell them what type of tent you have to pitch.

Suggestion - tell them how many robots they have to programme.

Robots equal Scout Leaders or Scouts from an opposing patrol.

The programmers read out their instructions and the robots pitch as instructed. Exactly as instructed. For example, If they say use a mallet to hammer in a peg, deliberately use the wrong part of the mallet and it does not say where to hammer it into. You should be pedantic and petty.

When situations like this arise the Scouts should be encouraged to refine and debug their instructions and test try again, as a normal part of computing.

Tags

• computing
• Digital Maker
• robot
• software
• tent pitching

Badge Links

• Digital Maker - Instructions
• Outdoors - Tent
• Skills - Problem solving
• Teamwork - Team-building