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Robotics Worksheet: Competitions and Teamwork

Robotics lesson 28: Competitions and teamwork · Set 422 · 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.🏆 A team’s robot scores 76, 98 and 40 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
  2. 2.🏆 Why keep notes of every test run? (a) to fill pages (b) to show off (c) to learn what works (d) to slow the team
  3. 3.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “plan the design”? (a) build and program (b) test and improve (c) read the rules (d) compete and learn
  4. 4.🏆 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
  5. 5.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) the menu (b) nothing (c) a comic (d) the rules
  6. 6.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to laugh at a wrong idea? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
  7. 7.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🏆 In a robot team, who shares out the jobs? (a) note-keeper (b) team captain (c) builder (d) tester
  9. 9.🏆 A robot scores 23, 46 and 12 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  10. 10.🏆 In a robot team, who writes the code? (a) note-keeper (b) programmer (c) tester (d) team captain
  11. 11.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to share the tools? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
  12. 12.🏆 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 6 blocks and touches the robot 2 times. What is the score?
  13. 13.🏆 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 4 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
  14. 14.True or false: to praise a teammate is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: to listen to every idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: to ignore the rules is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 20 points. A robot pushes in 5 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
  18. 18.🏆 A team’s robot scores 75, 86 and 62 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
  19. 19.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the LAST step? (a) test and improve (b) compete and learn (c) build and program (d) read the rules
  20. 20.🏆 In a robot team, who fixes loose parts? (a) tester (b) programmer (c) team captain (d) builder
  21. 21.🏆 A robot scores 44, 51 and 21 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  22. 22.True or false: to listen to every idea is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🏆 Each block a robot stacks scores 25 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?
  24. 24.🏆 In a robot team, who keeps the design diary? (a) tester (b) programmer (c) note-keeper (d) builder
  25. 25.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “build and program”? (a) read the rules (b) plan the design (c) compete and learn (d) test and improve
  26. 26.🏆 A team’s robot scores 65, 85 and 78 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
  27. 27.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to copy another team? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
  28. 28.🏆 A robot scores 57, 51 and 37 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  29. 29.True or false: to copy another team is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🏆 A robot scores 57, 55 and 59 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  31. 31.🏆 A robot scores 32, 39 and 33 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  32. 32.🏆 In a robot team, who puts the robot together? (a) builder (b) programmer (c) tester (d) team captain
  33. 33.🏆 A team’s robot scores 36, 31 and 35 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
  34. 34.True or false: to share the tools is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to say sorry for mistakes? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
  36. 36.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the FIRST step? (a) build and program (b) test and improve (c) read the rules (d) compete and learn
  37. 37.🏆 Each block a robot stacks scores 10 points, and each time a team member touches the robot, the team loses 5 points. A team stacks 8 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
  38. 38.True or false: to blame one person is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 10 points. A robot pushes in 4 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
  40. 40.🏆 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 7 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?

Answer key

  1. 98
  2. to learn what works
  3. build and program
  4. find the cause, retry
  5. the rules
  6. poor teamwork
  7. False
  8. team captain
  9. 81
  10. programmer
  11. good teamwork
  12. 70
  13. 95
  14. False
  15. False
  16. False
  17. 120
  18. 86
  19. compete and learn
  20. builder
  21. 116
  22. True
  23. 90
  24. note-keeper
  25. test and improve
  26. 85
  27. poor teamwork
  28. 145
  29. True
  30. 57
  31. 104
  32. builder
  33. 36
  34. True
  35. good teamwork
  36. read the rules
  37. 75
  38. True
  39. 60
  40. 170

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