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.🏆 Why keep notes of every test run? (a) to slow the team (b) to fill pages (c) to learn what works (d) to show off
- 2.🏆 Your robot fails in a round. What is the best thing to do? (a) find the cause, retry (b) break the robot (c) blame a teammate (d) give up at once
- 3.🏆 A robot scores 40, 50 and 45 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 4.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the FIRST step? (a) plan the design (b) compete and learn (c) read the rules (d) build and program
- 5.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “plan the design” or “compete and learn”? (a) compete and learn (b) plan the design
- 6.🏆 A team’s robot scores 87, 37 and 93 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 7.🏆 What matters most in a school robot competition? (a) copying others (b) learning and fair play (c) winning at any cost (d) hiding mistakes
- 8.🏆 A team’s robot scores 43, 83 and 80 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 9.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 10 points. A robot pushes in 5 cans and gets 10 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 10.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to share the tools? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
- 11.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 2 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 12.🏆 A team’s robot scores 54, 42 and 71 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 13.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 4 cans and gets 30 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 14.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to help a stuck team? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 15.🏆 In a robot team, who writes the code? (a) note-keeper (b) builder (c) tester (d) programmer
- 16.True or false: to praise a teammate is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🏆 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 10 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
- 19.🏆 A robot scores 47, 48 and 49 points in three rounds. What is its average 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 2 times. What is the score?
- 21.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to praise a teammate? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
- 22.🏆 A robot scores 25, 31 and 19 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 23.🏆 In a robot team, who shares out the jobs? (a) builder (b) team captain (c) note-keeper (d) tester
- 24.🏆 In a robot team, who changes the program? (a) team captain (b) note-keeper (c) builder (d) programmer
- 25.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the LAST step? (a) compete and learn (b) build and program (c) read the rules (d) test and improve
- 26.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “plan the design”? (a) test and improve (b) read the rules (c) build and program (d) compete and learn
- 27.True or false: to ignore the rules is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🏆 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 7 blocks and touches the robot 3 times. What is the score?
- 29.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 15 points. A robot pushes in 7 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 30.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “test and improve”? (a) compete and learn (b) build and program (c) read the rules (d) plan the design
- 31.🏆 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 3 times. What is the score?
- 32.True or false: to ignore the rules is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 20 points. A robot pushes in 4 cans and gets 50 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 34.🏆 A robot scores 31, 30 and 32 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 35.🏆 A team’s robot scores 97, 30 and 37 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 36.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to say sorry for mistakes? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
- 37.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 10 points. A robot pushes in 7 cans and gets 30 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 38.True or false: to help a stuck team is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “read the rules”? (a) build and program (b) plan the design (c) test and improve (d) compete and learn
- 40.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) nothing (b) a comic (c) the rules (d) the menu
Answer key
- to learn what works
- find the cause, retry
- 45
- read the rules
- plan the design
- 93
- learning and fair play
- 83
- 60
- good teamwork
- 30
- 71
- 50
- good teamwork
- programmer
- True
- True
- 190
- 48
- 140
- good teamwork
- 75
- team captain
- programmer
- compete and learn
- build and program
- True
- 75
- 125
- compete and learn
- 10
- False
- 130
- 31
- 97
- good teamwork
- 100
- True
- plan the design
- the rules
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