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Robotics Worksheet: Competitions and Teamwork

Robotics lesson 28: Competitions and teamwork · Set 355 · 40 questions
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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. 1.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 7 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
  2. 2.🏆 A robot scores 40, 44 and 48 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  3. 3.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “plan the design” or “read the rules”? (a) plan the design (b) read the rules
  4. 4.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “test and improve”? (a) plan the design (b) compete and learn (c) build and program (d) read the rules
  5. 5.🏆 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 7 blocks and touches the robot 2 times. What is the score?
  6. 6.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) nothing (b) the menu (c) the rules (d) a comic
  7. 7.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 10 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
  8. 8.🏆 Your robot fails in a round. What is the best thing to do? (a) blame a teammate (b) find the cause, retry (c) break the robot (d) give up at once
  9. 9.🏆 A robot scores 43, 48 and 52 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  10. 10.🏆 What matters most in a school robot competition? (a) winning at any cost (b) hiding mistakes (c) copying others (d) learning and fair play
  11. 11.🏆 In a robot team, who finds what goes wrong? (a) tester (b) builder (c) note-keeper (d) programmer
  12. 12.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to blame one person? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
  13. 13.True or false: to follow the event rules is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🏆 A robot scores 56, 11 and 59 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  15. 15.🏆 A robot scores 39, 30 and 48 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  16. 16.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the FIRST step? (a) plan the design (b) build and program (c) read the rules (d) test and improve
  17. 17.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “plan the design”? (a) compete and learn (b) test and improve (c) build and program (d) read the rules
  18. 18.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “read the rules”? (a) test and improve (b) compete and learn (c) build and program (d) plan the design
  19. 19.🔢 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
  20. 20.🏆 In a robot team, who writes the code? (a) builder (b) programmer (c) note-keeper (d) team captain
  21. 21.True or false: to follow the event rules is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: to grab the robot is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🏆 A team’s robot scores 22, 87 and 80 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
  25. 25.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “test and improve” or “build and program”? (a) build and program (b) test and improve
  27. 27.True or false: to say sorry for mistakes is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “read the rules” or “plan the design”? (a) read the rules (b) plan the design
  29. 29.True or false: to share the tools is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to listen to every idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🏆 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 10 blocks and touches the robot 3 times. What is the score?
  32. 32.True or false: to do all the work alone is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to share the tools is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🏆 A robot scores 54, 38 and 13 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  35. 35.🏆 Each block a robot stacks scores 20 points, and each time a team member touches the robot, the team loses 10 points. A team stacks 9 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
  36. 36.🏆 In a robot team, who shares out the jobs? (a) programmer (b) builder (c) tester (d) team captain
  37. 37.🏆 Why keep notes of every test run? (a) to learn what works (b) to fill pages (c) to show off (d) to slow the team
  38. 38.🏆 A robot scores 51, 59 and 31 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  39. 39.True or false: to praise a teammate is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to blame one person is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. 55
  2. 44
  3. read the rules
  4. compete and learn
  5. 95
  6. the rules
  7. 70
  8. find the cause, retry
  9. 143
  10. learning and fair play
  11. tester
  12. poor teamwork
  13. True
  14. 126
  15. 39
  16. read the rules
  17. build and program
  18. plan the design
  19. read the rules
  20. programmer
  21. False
  22. True
  23. True
  24. 87
  25. False
  26. build and program
  27. False
  28. read the rules
  29. True
  30. False
  31. 235
  32. True
  33. False
  34. 105
  35. 170
  36. team captain
  37. to learn what works
  38. 141
  39. False
  40. True

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