Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Tug of War (5/02/2009)

On 5 February 2009, in our class has make a simple competition on Tug of War. On the day, the class was conducted by Mr. Abdul Ghani. He has sugessted that, make a tournament during the class. He gave the class a theme for the tournament that is Tug of War robots. He said that based on our own creativity, design a robot that can meet the theme for the tournament.


...busy doing a robot for the Tug War...


...take a break for a while...


...this is our robot...


After several competition in the class, my theme has won. We have won for 2 competition. Our group has made to the final round. Because of the group that join the competition just six group, our class only can manage a simple league that is Group A, 3 round and Group B, 3 round.


...while the competition...


The winner for each group will meet the final. My group is the winner for Group B. My group will meet the winner in Group A. In the final, I have design a robot that can stand to win the tournament. I have modified the robots to test the theory of using small tires behind. But unfortunately, the theory is fail.

...yeah!! we got the second place overall...

But after the tournament, our class have learn a lot. We have learn the basis of physics, maths, science,ICT usage and others. The tournament is very useful for us to apply the theory that we have learned before in secondary schools. Although, we have lose the tournament but we learn from our mistakes.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Attacking Robot and Transportation Robot (12/02/2009)

On 12 February 2009, our class has made two types of robot that is attacking robot and transportation robot. The class is conducted by Mrs. Rashidah bt. Ahmad. She has explain some criteria for the robot. After she has explain the criteria that we should take note for making robot, she let us to make the robot.

Before recess, we tried to make an attacking robot. Our robot is called Hammerbot. The Hammerbot is just the prototaip. Then we have modified the attacking robot to the transportation robots that can lift things. Our robots is the lightest among the other robots. Our robots weight is 676 gram. The other robots is above 740gram.

Once again our class has conducted a small tournament for the attacking robots. In five minutes time, our group has manage to modified the transportation robot to an attacking robots. Altough our robots is the lightest, we manage to get the second place in group B. Althiough we has lost, we manage to determine what is our weakness. A class that have enjoyable moment will helps students to learn better. During the class, I've learn how to conducted a class with a an activity that is enjoyable and useful for the students.