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 “read the rules”? (a) compete and learn (b) build and program (c) plan the design (d) test and improve
- 2.🏆 A robot scores 17, 45 and 31 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 3.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “build and program”? (a) plan the design (b) read the rules (c) test and improve (d) compete and learn
- 4.🏆 In a robot team, who keeps everyone on task? (a) team captain (b) programmer (c) tester (d) builder
- 5.True or false: to help a stuck team is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to follow the event rules? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 7.True or false: to grab the robot is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 8.True or false: to share the tools is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🏆 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
- 10.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “test and improve”? (a) read the rules (b) compete and learn (c) build and program (d) plan the design
- 11.True or false: to say sorry for mistakes is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 12.True or false: to say sorry for mistakes is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “plan the design” or “read the rules”? (a) read the rules (b) plan the design
- 14.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “compete and learn” or “read the rules”? (a) compete and learn (b) read the rules
- 15.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “plan the design” or “compete and learn”? (a) plan the design (b) compete and learn
- 16.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 10 points. A robot pushes in 2 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 17.🏆 Why keep notes of every test run? (a) to fill pages (b) to learn what works (c) to show off (d) to slow the team
- 18.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to share the tools? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
- 19.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to grab the robot? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 20.🏆 In a robot team, who changes the program? (a) programmer (b) tester (c) note-keeper (d) team captain
- 21.🔢 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
- 22.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 10 points. A robot pushes in 3 cans and gets 10 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 23.True or false: to praise a teammate is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🏆 A robot scores 13, 37 and 60 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 25.🏆 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 3 times. What is the score?
- 26.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 20 points. A robot pushes in 6 cans and gets 10 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 27.🏆 What matters most in a school robot competition? (a) hiding mistakes (b) winning at any cost (c) learning and fair play (d) copying others
- 28.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 25 points. A robot pushes in 7 cans and gets 30 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 29.🏆 A team’s robot scores 55, 41 and 61 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 30.🏆 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 2 times. What is the score?
- 31.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 3 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 32.True or false: to copy another team is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🏆 In a robot team, who finds what goes wrong? (a) note-keeper (b) tester (c) builder (d) programmer
- 34.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) a comic (b) the rules (c) the menu (d) nothing
- 35.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🏆 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 9 blocks and touches the robot 2 times. What is the score?
- 37.🏆 A robot scores 47, 52 and 21 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 38.🏆 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 8 blocks and touches the robot 2 times. What is the score?
- 39.🏆 A team’s robot scores 89, 85 and 21 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 40.🏆 A team’s robot scores 92, 54 and 92 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
Answer key
- plan the design
- 31
- test and improve
- team captain
- True
- good teamwork
- True
- False
- find the cause, retry
- compete and learn
- True
- False
- read the rules
- read the rules
- plan the design
- 40
- to learn what works
- good teamwork
- poor teamwork
- programmer
- build and program
- 40
- True
- 110
- 170
- 130
- learning and fair play
- 205
- 61
- 140
- 35
- False
- tester
- the rules
- True
- 80
- 120
- 100
- 89
- 92
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