Ready-Set-Robot! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Ready-Set-Robot!

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Educational robotics is quite spread among the schools and centers, but if you take a look at number of participants and attitudes towards technology and engineering in society, picture would not encourage us to bet on the future. We do not need to popularize robotics or science or STEM. Instead we need to create and grow awareness among youth, teachers and parents. Ready-Set-Robot was a project for bringing together robotics and video production. The main goal was to teach coaches and students to make better videos about their robots and team and through good quality learning videos be more successful in robotics programs and competitions provided in their home country. This helped partners in cooperation to promote robotics, STEM and project based learning through fun and interactive way.

We created videos of how-to-build-robot for different tasks. Videos are available with English, Latvian, Estonian, Swedish and Finnish subtitles and in partner country own language. These demonstrate how for example to build a sumo robots, what to keep in mind of its mechanics, strategy and how to program it. Also instructional videos for line follower robots and folk race robots.
Also a set of instructional videos were made that help students and their coaches to make better videos about robotics. These include videos like: “Filming for Beginners”, “How to films a LEGO robot with mobile phone and tablet” and “Interviewing for beginners”. The last one helps students to have better communications with their own team and with experts.
We also created instructional videos how to participate in FIRST LEGO League and build an effective robot or well considered project. There were instructional videos for FIRST LEGO League programming, navigation, mechanics and attachments and a full set of videos for new and veteran teams of how to be successful in FIRST LEGO League robot design, robot game, explanation of robot parts and FIRST EGO League project pitching.
All videos were published on project website – readysetrobot.eu and were linked also to each partners own website. Also a new channel Ready Set Robot was made into YouTube and all the videos are there inside different and logical playlists. These videos will help students to strengthen the learning experience through robots and programming.

There are 4 Intellectual Outputs for this project:

IO1. OER platform. A Multilanguage website was created to host all the materials provided with the project. These are all those 70 videos that helps students and their coaches with different part of educational robotics and specially FIRST LEGO League program.

IO2. Video Set for FLL teams. As mentioned above, we have created a set of videos to promote FIRST LEGO League teams.
These videos promote all parts of FIRST LEGO League:
* Project pitching videos to help the teams to understand the concept of Innovation project and to teach them how to pitch their project in 3 minutes.
* Robot design and what to expect from the judges and how to talk about your robot design and concept.
* Robot Game, videos of demo robot games and robot games with voice over, where teams talks about their robot strategy during a real life match.

IO3. How to Build a … robot. A set of videos to better understand different part of robotics and how to build Sumo robots, what to notice and be aware (mechanics, strategy, programming), how to build a line followers, folk race robots etc. And also how to film a moving robot, how to interview and where to start with filming when you are a beginner.

IO4/5. Methodological Framework handbook. We created a handbook, that is aimed at supporting teachers, pedagogical staff, managers, trainers, decision makers and stakeholders, in the implementation of the material created in the Ready Set Robot project. This output consolidates the projects outcomes, into a methodological description and practical ideas of implementing the material in training at various levels: national, regional and local. It has chapters about video documentation and its importance and about the example videos and about the training course.

All expected outputs were created successfully and most of the Multiplier events were done. Only the Estonian Teacher conference was not made in such large manner, due to covid restrictions and was replaced with small events.

Project Website

https://readysetrobot.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 126096,74 Eur

Project Coordinator

NPO Robootika & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Robotiem
• ELDERBERRY AB
• Robotiikka- ja tiedekasvatus ry