Students in Mr. Cowherd's 8th grade Project Lead the Way: Automation and Robotics class were able to test out the newest VEX robotic kits thanks to the NYS Master Teacher Program and SUNY Albany. As a fun wrap up activity for the end of the class, students had a friendly competition to see who could pick up as many plastic blocks as possible with the VEX claw bots and place them into a box. Controlling the clawbots was a lot harder than it looked, but students were able to get the hang of it.
Automation and Robotics students have been using the previous versions of the VEX robotics kits all quarter long to complete different design challenges. They also were able to program their projects so the robots could run autonomously.
