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.🏆 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.🏆 A robot scores 40, 44 and 48 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 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.🔢 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.🏆 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.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) nothing (b) the menu (c) the rules (d) a comic
- 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.🏆 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.🏆 A robot scores 43, 48 and 52 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 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.🏆 In a robot team, who finds what goes wrong? (a) tester (b) builder (c) note-keeper (d) programmer
- 12.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to blame one person? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 13.True or false: to follow the event rules is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🏆 A robot scores 56, 11 and 59 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 15.🏆 A robot scores 39, 30 and 48 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 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.🔢 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.🔢 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.🔢 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.🏆 In a robot team, who writes the code? (a) builder (b) programmer (c) note-keeper (d) team captain
- 21.True or false: to follow the event rules is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 22.True or false: to grab the robot is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 23.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 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.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 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.True or false: to say sorry for mistakes is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 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.True or false: to share the tools is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: to listen to every idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 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.True or false: to do all the work alone is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 33.True or false: to share the tools is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 34.🏆 A robot scores 54, 38 and 13 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 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.🏆 In a robot team, who shares out the jobs? (a) programmer (b) builder (c) tester (d) team captain
- 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.🏆 A robot scores 51, 59 and 31 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 39.True or false: to praise a teammate is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 40.True or false: to blame one person is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- 55
- 44
- read the rules
- compete and learn
- 95
- the rules
- 70
- find the cause, retry
- 143
- learning and fair play
- tester
- poor teamwork
- True
- 126
- 39
- read the rules
- build and program
- plan the design
- read the rules
- programmer
- False
- True
- True
- 87
- False
- build and program
- False
- read the rules
- True
- False
- 235
- True
- False
- 105
- 170
- team captain
- to learn what works
- 141
- False
- True
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