Robotics Worksheet: Competitions and Teamwork
Robot tip (Rules, roles, retries): Score = items × points each + bonus − penalties. Best round = the highest score; average = total ÷ number of rounds. Roles: builder, programmer, tester, team captain, note-keeper. Play fair and learn from every run.
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- 1.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “plan the design”? (a) read the rules (b) compete and learn (c) build and program (d) test and improve
- 2.🏆 What matters most in a school robot competition? (a) hiding mistakes (b) learning and fair play (c) copying others (d) winning at any cost
- 3.🏆 Why keep notes of every test run? (a) to show off (b) to slow the team (c) to fill pages (d) to learn what works
- 4.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to praise a teammate? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 5.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “build and program”? (a) compete and learn (b) plan the design (c) read the rules (d) test and improve
- 6.True or false: to listen to every idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 20 points. A robot pushes in 4 cans and gets 30 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 8.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “build and program” or “read the rules”? (a) read the rules (b) build and program
- 9.🏆 In a robot team, who changes the program? (a) team captain (b) tester (c) programmer (d) builder
- 10.🏆 A robot scores 40, 42 and 44 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 11.🏆 In a robot team, who puts the robot together? (a) tester (b) builder (c) note-keeper (d) programmer
- 12.🏆 A robot scores 44, 54 and 12 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 13.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “test and improve” or “compete and learn”? (a) compete and learn (b) test and improve
- 14.True or false: to ignore the rules is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “read the rules”? (a) test and improve (b) build and program (c) plan the design (d) compete and learn
- 16.🏆 In a robot team, who fixes loose parts? (a) tester (b) programmer (c) team captain (d) builder
- 17.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “build and program” or “plan the design”? (a) build and program (b) plan the design
- 18.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) the menu (b) the rules (c) a comic (d) nothing
- 19.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 15 points. A robot pushes in 4 cans and gets 10 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 20.🏆 Each block a robot stacks scores 25 points, and each time a team member touches the robot, the team loses 5 points. A team stacks 6 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
- 21.🏆 Each block a robot stacks scores 15 points, and each time a team member touches the robot, the team loses 5 points. A team stacks 10 blocks and touches the robot 3 times. What is the score?
- 22.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “test and improve” or “read the rules”? (a) read the rules (b) test and improve
- 23.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to laugh at a wrong idea? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 24.🏆 Your robot fails in a round. What is the best thing to do? (a) give up at once (b) blame a teammate (c) find the cause, retry (d) break the robot
- 25.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to ignore the rules? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
- 26.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the FIRST step? (a) compete and learn (b) test and improve (c) build and program (d) read the rules
- 27.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to blame one person? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 28.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to help a stuck team? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
- 29.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 20 points. A robot pushes in 10 cans and gets 10 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 30.🏆 Each block a robot stacks scores 15 points, and each time a team member touches the robot, the team loses 10 points. A team stacks 5 blocks and touches the robot 3 times. What is the score?
- 31.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 25 points. A robot pushes in 10 cans and gets 10 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 32.🏆 A robot scores 56, 16 and 48 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 33.🏆 Each block a robot stacks scores 10 points, and each time a team member touches the robot, the team loses 10 points. A team stacks 4 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
- 34.🏆 A team’s robot scores 48, 97 and 47 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 35.True or false: to share the tools is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🏆 In a robot team, who keeps everyone on task? (a) builder (b) programmer (c) note-keeper (d) team captain
- 37.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “read the rules” or “compete and learn”? (a) read the rules (b) compete and learn
- 38.🏆 A robot scores 19, 34 and 25 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 39.🏆 A team’s robot scores 66, 77 and 20 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 40.🏆 A team’s robot scores 62, 58 and 36 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
Answer key
- build and program
- learning and fair play
- to learn what works
- good teamwork
- test and improve
- False
- 110
- read the rules
- programmer
- 42
- builder
- 110
- test and improve
- True
- plan the design
- builder
- plan the design
- the rules
- 70
- 145
- 135
- read the rules
- poor teamwork
- find the cause, retry
- poor teamwork
- read the rules
- poor teamwork
- good teamwork
- 210
- 45
- 260
- 120
- 30
- 97
- False
- team captain
- read the rules
- 78
- 77
- 62
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