The Mindstormers

Thursday night Ty spent some time at night building a robot that holds a pen with dad. While they were building they came up with their team name "the Mindstormers" (like transformers since they transform things).

They didn't get it completed so this morning they met up again, this time with New team member Kevin. They completed a robot that holds a marker and then after a basic lesson in geometry, Tyler was in charge of writing a program.

His goal was to get the robot to draw a circle. It took several attempts and he became dubbed the team "observer" since he was in charge of observing what was going wrong and troubleshooting. Eventually they got it pretty close!! And Ty wanted a video to share of their creation and his program.

Ignore the mess please in the background!! We had a lazy Friday and this room is just a mess.

After seeing Ty's program, Kevin sat down with dad and wrote his first program complete with a roar and some karate sounds. :)

Now he's brainstorming how to use the pen with his robot. We will see what he figures out. A fun lazy morning here as The Mindstormers work.