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July 11, 2012

Cockadoodle Dominators visit Grand Summer University

Jessica Lane, Staff Writer, jlane@chickashanews.com CNHI

“Right foot! Left foot!”

It might sound like bootcamp, but the students at Grand Summer University aren’t pretending to be soldiers, they’re learning about robots.

This might explain why some of the students respond, “Bee bo boop bop!” to orders such as “grab” and “drop.”

Grand Summer University students, first through sixth grade, created instructions using the provided robot language dictionary. The dictionary uses symbols such as arrows to indicate leg forward or backward, right foot or left foot and body rotate to name a few.

The students drew the symbols on a sheet of paper in order to navigate the elementary school gym. The goal is to capture a ball of plutonium--a basketball or soccer ball in this case, according to Tyanne Taylor, Grand Ave. Elementary teacher. Taylor said that the students learn from trial and error.

GSU focuses on reading, math, science and a healthy dose of play. This summer, GSU students took a trip to the zoo because this year’s theme is “safari.”

The students took turns instructing another student pretending to be a robot when to take a step and when they reached the ball, to bend down and grab it.

The Cockadoodle Dominators, the Chickasha High School FIRST Robotics team, also visited the students to tell them more about robotics, FIRST Lego League and to demonstrate their awesome, basketball shooting robot.

Ann Fairburn, CHS robotics mentor, told the students about the FIRST Robotics competitions.

“It’s a competition where you build things and you have a lot of fun.”

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