Middle School Learning

Spike Prime Challenge: Lifting a Square

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In the future, I'm planning to write a lot more "challenges" for the Spike Pime robot. However, this is the last in a series of 6 that I'm putting together before I start coaching a FIRST LEGO League challenge team. I feel like kids who compete the 5 original Spike Prime Tutorials plus the 6 ...

Spike Prime Challenge: Knocking Over a Tower

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If you've been following along with my series on getting started with the Spike Prime and learning to program the Spike Prime through challenges, you'll see that things are starting to warm up. The skills that kids will learn in this and the following challenges will be VERY useful if you ever ...

Spike Prime Challenge: Using Distance Sensor for Navigation

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Are you following along with my Spike Prime Tutorials? First, I created a series of 5 posts starting with the unboxing. Now, I am working on a series of challenges. I will list them all below and hopefully update the links as I go. If you want stay up to date with my robot tutorials, sign up for my ...

Spike Prime Challenge: Pushing an Object

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This is the first season that I've ever coached a FIRST LEGO League Challenge team. I'm excited! This is also the first time in my life that I've ever used a Spike Prime robot or coded using Spike Prime word blocks. I have several years experience working as an engineer and programmer and I love ...

Spike Prime Challenge: Avoiding an Obstacle

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If you've been following along with my Spike Prime tutorial series, you will know that a couple weeks ago I presented a "first challenge" for kids just getting started using a Spike Prime robot. That challenge was simply to learn how to use the Spike Prime coding word blocks to learn how to drive ...

Spike Prime Challenge: Moving to a Square

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Over the past few weeks, I have been learning how to use a Spike Prime robot in preparation for coaching a FIRST LEGO League Challenge team for upper elementary and middle school students in my area. I have degrees in engineering and extensive experience programming, but I have never done robotics ...

Spike Prime Tutorials: Building First Robot Car

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This post is the 5th in a series on learning how to use the LEGO Education Spike Prime set. At this point, we are ALMOST ready to start doing some challenges. We just need a basic car that can be made with the supplies included in the set as a jumping off point to tackling specific problems. Once ...

Spike Prime Tutorials: Writing and Managing Programs

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This post is the fourth in a series of posts about getting started using the LEGO Sprike Prime robotics kit. The first was our unboxing, then we went over how to test the motors and sensors. Third we covered how to install the app and make sure you can connect the hub to Bluetooth. This post will ...

Spike Prime Tutorials: Installing App & Connecting Hub

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Since deciding to coach a First Lego League Challenge team this fall, I have posted about unboxing our Spike Prime and testing the motors and sensors. This post will walk step-by-step through the process of installing the app and connecting the hub to Bluetooth for the first time. Eventually I am ...

Spike Prime Tutorials: Testing the Motors and Sensors

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Earlier this week we unboxed our very first Spike Prime. Now we are starting to become familiar with the major components included in our kit. Namely, the Spike Prime hub, motors, and sensors. Next time, I will share how to download the Spike Prime app on desktop and transfer your very first program ...