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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2014 Meeting
Section: Physics Education
Title:
Robotics at “Carmen Sylva” High School
Authors:
F.C. SERBU
Affiliation:
"Carmen Sylva" High School, Eforie Sud
E-mail
florinserbu@yahoo.com
Keywords:
robotics
Abstract:
The paper presents arguments for using robotics in school and describes how a robotic project was implemented at “Carmen Sylva” High School in Eforie Sud, during the last 2 years. The project was inspired by the workshop “School’ Robotics”, organised by “Hands on Science” network in Braga, Portugal, and financed by Comenius Projects. After the workshop I started to inform and motivate my students, I decided to buy some equipment for lab activities and I organized a robotic club for extracurricular activities in our school. After the first year of activities the students’ products were presented in the Science Fair in Romania. One of our students projects SensorBot won the first prize at "Concursul National de Stiinta si Tehnologie" - ROSEF 2013. After the second year of activities we introduced and optional robotic course in curriculum. Two of our projects represented succesfuly our school and Romania in European projects. The team “Carmen Sylva 1” won the second prize at CanSat Europe 2014 competition, organized by European Space Agency (ESA) at Andenes, Norway. Our team designed and built a CanSat to be launched and deployed from a rocket at an altitude of 1000 m. During the descend our CanSat, based on Arduino microcontroller measured: atmospheric parameters (air temperature, air pressure, air humidity), UV radiation, air quality, CanSat position and velocity using the GPS sensor, 3 axes acceleration, 3 axes angular velocity and 3 axes magnetic field, currently absorbed by our CanSat. The second team from our school with students from the 8th grade, won Silver Medal at International Environmental & Sustainability Project Olimpiad (INESPO) in Haga, Holland. They presented in competition a robot “FireBot CS”, designed and built to prevent and detect fireworks. The robot integrates 3 technologies (Lego Mindstorms NXT, Arduino and Raspberry Pi).
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