[Design and Technology] Ideas for Systems and technology (7-10)

Thu Nov 10 22:27:34 AEDT 2016

Hi Travis

On closer inspection it would appear that the vex edr range of kits is not available in Australia. VEX Robotics USA lists its Australian Reseller as

Kiwibots
Building 106, Gate 4
North Shore City
Auckland, North Island, 0632
64-02-166-4176 

Do you know of a supplier in this country?

Kind regards ... Roger

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From: destech-bounces at edulists.com.au <destech-bounces at edulists.com.au> on behalf of Travis Burroughs <travis.burroughs at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2016 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [Design and Technology] Ideas for Systems and technology (7-10)

Guys,

Here is a little more about VEX robotics,

There are 2 platforms of VEX Robotics. The first is the IQ, a small platform based predominantly of plastic that allows students to quickly design, build and program. IQ competitions have been designed to promote teamwork and a sense of success for everyone who competes. The VEX IQ platform is targeted at student’s year 6 – 8. The second platform is EDR, the most common here in Australia. The EDR robots are much larger than the IQ and are made up of metal and plastic components.  Again the platform allows students to design, build, and program. The VEX EDR platform includes electronics, mechanics, integrated systems, pneumatics, and wireless communication, all components of the VCE Systems course here in Victoria.  Schools in Victoria are using the EDR platform as teaching means for Systems year 8 – 12 and as Lunch time club activity. Both methods have proven to be very beneficial to students.

The REC Foundation has developed very detailed curriculum for both the EDR and the IQ platforms (http://www.roboticseducation.org/educational-resources/robotics-curriculum/). Both the curriculums are very adaptable to the Australian curriculum and they approach robotics from a STEM perspective. There is a second curriculum and software available from Robot Virtual Worlds that allows student to program and test robots in a virtual environment. It is a great alternative for schools that want to put large numbers of students through robotics education (http://www.robotvirtualworlds.com/download/).

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. DATTA will be running a workshop on VEX at the DEC conference, and we are always able to run PL if we have enough teachers in a given area.

Travis Burroughs
DATTA Victoria Robotics Coordinator / Treasurer
Camberwell High School

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Zivave, Athanas T <zivave.athanas.t at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:zivave.athanas.t at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
Hi Travis
I am in the same boat with Wayne and I am interested in robotics can you please help me with curriculum. We want to start robotics at year 7 right through to VCE Systems Engineering.

My e-mail address is; zivave.athanas.t at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:zivave.athanas.t at edumail.vic.gov.au>

Thanking you in advance.

Athanas
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Wayne,

I help with DATTA Vic's VEX robotics tournaments. If you are interested in taking a robotics approach to your systems course i can help set you up with curriculum. The VEX community here in Victoria is great  is great and any of the teachers who are working with it would be happy to share resources and invite you in to see what there programs look like.

Travis Burroughs
DATTA Victoria Robotics Coordinator
Camberwell High School

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Louk, John W <louk.john.w at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:louk.john.w at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
Hi everyone,

My school has decided they want to include more systems tech into the curriculum next year so I'm looking for ideas and resources for projects to be included into Materials and or seperate electives running 75mins or 150mins a week for a semester.

Any thoughts or resources would be hugely appreciated.

Cheers

Wayne Louk

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