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Robotics Worksheet: Competitions and Teamwork

Robotics lesson 28: Competitions and teamwork · Set 661 · 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.🔢 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
  2. 2.🏆 In a robot team, who writes down every test? (a) tester (b) note-keeper (c) team captain (d) builder
  3. 3.🏆 In a robot team, who shares out the jobs? (a) builder (b) note-keeper (c) team captain (d) programmer
  4. 4.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to praise a teammate? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
  5. 5.🏆 What matters most in a school robot competition? (a) hiding mistakes (b) copying others (c) winning at any cost (d) learning and fair play
  6. 6.🏆 Your robot fails in a round. What is the best thing to do? (a) give up at once (b) find the cause, retry (c) break the robot (d) blame a teammate
  7. 7.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 10 cans and gets 10 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
  8. 8.🏆 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?
  9. 9.🏆 In a robot team, who writes the code? (a) builder (b) team captain (c) tester (d) programmer
  10. 10.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to ignore the rules? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
  11. 11.True or false: to say sorry for mistakes is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🏆 A robot scores 50, 45 and 55 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  13. 13.True or false: to praise a teammate is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “test and improve”? (a) read the rules (b) plan the design (c) build and program (d) compete and learn
  15. 15.🏆 A robot scores 23, 12 and 34 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  16. 16.🏆 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
  17. 17.🏆 In a robot team, who keeps the design diary? (a) tester (b) programmer (c) team captain (d) note-keeper
  18. 18.True or false: to follow the event rules is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🏆 A robot scores 12, 40 and 26 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  20. 20.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which comes first: “test and improve” or “build and program”? (a) test and improve (b) build and program
  21. 21.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to help a stuck team? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
  22. 22.🏆 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 5 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
  23. 23.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to follow the event rules? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
  24. 24.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to say sorry for mistakes? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
  25. 25.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to do all the work alone? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
  26. 26.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the FIRST step? (a) test and improve (b) plan the design (c) build and program (d) read the rules
  27. 27.True or false: to blame one person is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to grab the robot is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to do all the work alone is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 9 cans and gets 10 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
  31. 31.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 20 points. A robot pushes in 6 cans and gets 20 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
  32. 32.🏆 A team’s robot scores 30, 89 and 37 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
  33. 33.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to copy another team? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
  34. 34.True or false: to ignore the rules is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) a comic (b) the menu (c) nothing (d) the rules
  36. 36.🏆 A robot scores 34, 42 and 38 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  37. 37.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the LAST step? (a) build and program (b) compete and learn (c) plan the design (d) read the rules
  38. 38.🏆 A robot scores 12, 38 and 34 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  39. 39.🏆 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 8 blocks and touches the robot 3 times. What is the score?
  40. 40.🏆 A robot scores 49, 31 and 34 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?

Answer key

  1. plan the design
  2. note-keeper
  3. team captain
  4. good teamwork
  5. learning and fair play
  6. find the cause, retry
  7. 60
  8. 170
  9. programmer
  10. poor teamwork
  11. False
  12. 50
  13. True
  14. compete and learn
  15. 69
  16. to learn what works
  17. note-keeper
  18. False
  19. 26
  20. build and program
  21. good teamwork
  22. 65
  23. good teamwork
  24. good teamwork
  25. poor teamwork
  26. read the rules
  27. True
  28. True
  29. False
  30. 55
  31. 140
  32. 89
  33. poor teamwork
  34. True
  35. the rules
  36. 38
  37. compete and learn
  38. 84
  39. 50
  40. 114

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