Lesson: EV3 - Engineering Challenge: Cube Wrangler

Overview: 
The goal of this lesson is to provide students with an Engineering Challenge, The Cube Wrangler, that will integrate all their new Robotics skills to date. NOTE:: This challenge uses the 2" yellow cubes from the 2013 FTC Block Party game.
Objectives: 

Students will be able to:

1. Design and build a robot capable of retreiving and stacking cubes.

2. Design and build a EV3 robot capable of finding, handling and stacking plastic cubes

3. Write an EV3-G program using advanced progamming techniquesto optimze performance and strategy options for a cube wrangler robot

Primary Instructional Material: 
Education Level: 
Middle School
High School
Scope & Sequence: 
Engineering
Focus Subject: 
Computing / Computer Science
Engineering
Robotics Hardware
Robotics Software
HW Platform: 
EV3
SW Platform: 
EV3-G
Interactivity Style: 
Mixed