STEM SUSSEX

Antweight Challenge Robot Tournament

Aim

To encourage young people to engage with Technology in a fun and practical way. Description

An exciting Design and Technology workshop for pupils from KS1, 2, 3 and 4 enabling them to build small and affordable remote controlled robots. The two-hour workshops for classes or year groups enable young people to build and compete with their own Antweight robots. Robot challenges include:

• Football
• Obstacle races
• Knockout Sumo Challenge
• Last Ant Standing

It is also possible to lease robot sets after the event. Antweight Robot Tournaments are held at the University of Brighton at regular intervals and culminate in an annual grand final.

Curriculum links

Design and technology KS1, 2, 3 and 4: Developing, planning and communicating ideas; working with tools, equipment, materials and components to produce quality products; evaluating processes and products; knowledge and understanding of materials and components; knowledge and understanding of systems and control.

Promotes the following key skills:

• Communication, through exchanging designing and making ideas, producing design proposals, and recording and evaluating their work
• Working with others, through drawing on other people's experiences to generate ideas, discussing their own and other people's designs, both in group projects and when seeking support for individual work
• Improving own learning and performance, through carrying out focused practical tasks that support their own approaches, following plans to meet negotiated targets, and through evaluating the whole designing and making process
• Problem solving, through dealing with conflicting requirements when making and project planning, and through considering alternatives in designing when investigating and evaluating products.

Activity Mapping

National Curriculum
D & T - 1b-d, 2a, b, d, e, 3a-c, 4c, d

Other benefits to the school
ECM - 3 and 4
SEF - 4e, 5b, 6a
Other - Team working and communication, BA CREST Award opportunity

Costs

£5 per pupil.

Missing or damaged items will be charged at cost.

To book

Please complete the booking form and return by email or fax.

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