School Clubs 2024

In the session, the instructor discussed the fourth lesson on radio light alarm, which builds on the previous lesson, light alarm. The lesson involved a deep dive into microbit radio and coding extensions. The instructor explained how the microbits can communicate with each other using the radio feature and introduced the radio extension. The lesson also included creating a simple radio program and discussing how to improve the system. The instructor suggested several ideas for extending the project, including building the Halloween project as a first lesson to introduce the microbit, experimenting with the microbits to determine the range of the radio signal, and considering other group interactions. - Written by Zoom AI

In the session, Brian introduced the Edge Connector and motors used in the Microbit base kit. He explained the components of the Edge Connector, including the general purpose pins, ground pins, and the 5-volt pin. He also discussed the motors, differentiating between the positional servo motor and the continuous rotation servo motor. Brian then demonstrated how to connect the motors to the Edge Connector and program them to move. He encouraged experimentation to better understand the motors' behavior. Finally, he mentioned that the motors would be used in the upcoming Inchworm project. - Written by Zoom AI

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Session 4 we built the Soccer Cat together. This project introduces using the "When XX key is pressed" event keys to control the movement of a particular Sprite. It also having two Sprites interact by using a Forever Loop around a Conditional loop that includes a Sensing block. This project has a more challenging addition for teachers who have time. This includes more advanced logic. One of the Conditional blocks is inside the other Conditional block and both are inside the forever loop. This makes the code tell the Sprite to do one thing when one set of conditions are met and another when both sets of conditions are met.

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Session 5 - We built the Wizard Class Challenge together. This is a more advanced project, but suitable for Halloween! This project allows children to explore altering Sprites through copying and pasting. We also discussed how you can change where the computer "sees" the Sprite on the screen by going to costumes and moving the Sprite so the target symbol fall on the Sprites wand (for this project). This project also introduces the use of the "Broadcast" event block so Sprites can control what other Sprites do.

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