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 learn what works (c) to show off (d) to fill pages
- 2.🏆 A robot scores 40, 34 and 20 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 3.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to copy another team? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
- 4.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to blame one person? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 5.🏆 In a robot team, who puts the robot together? (a) builder (b) tester (c) note-keeper (d) team captain
- 6.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 7.True or false: to say sorry for mistakes is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 8.🏆 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 10 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
- 9.🏆 In a robot team, who writes the code? (a) tester (b) note-keeper (c) builder (d) programmer
- 10.🏆 In a robot team, who keeps the design diary? (a) note-keeper (b) team captain (c) programmer (d) builder
- 11.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) the rules (b) the menu (c) a comic (d) nothing
- 12.🏆 What matters most in a school robot competition? (a) hiding mistakes (b) winning at any cost (c) learning and fair play (d) copying others
- 13.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “read the rules”? (a) build and program (b) test and improve (c) plan the design (d) compete and learn
- 14.True or false: to do all the work alone is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
- 15.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to listen to every idea? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
- 16.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “test and improve”? (a) build and program (b) read the rules (c) plan the design (d) compete and learn
- 17.🏆 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 8 blocks and touches the robot 3 times. What is the score?
- 18.🏆 A robot scores 23, 21 and 44 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 19.🏆 A team’s robot scores 77, 60 and 56 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 20.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🏆 A team’s robot scores 83, 74 and 73 in three rounds. Only the best round counts. What is the team’s score?
- 22.True or false: to copy another team is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🏆 A robot scores 60, 45 and 75 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 24.🏆 A robot scores 24, 19 and 29 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 25.🏆 Your robot fails in a round. What is the best thing to do? (a) give up at once (b) break the robot (c) find the cause, retry (d) blame a teammate
- 26.True or false: to listen to every idea is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, which is the FIRST step? (a) build and program (b) compete and learn (c) read the rules (d) plan the design
- 28.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 4 cans and gets 50 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 29.True or false: to ignore the rules is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 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 5 blocks and touches the robot 1 time. What is the score?
- 31.True or false: to ignore the rules is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: to listen to every idea is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🔢 To take part in a robot challenge, what comes right after “build and program”? (a) read the rules (b) plan the design (c) test and improve (d) compete and learn
- 34.🏆 In a robot team, who runs trials and checks? (a) tester (b) note-keeper (c) programmer (d) team captain
- 35.🏆 A robot scores 24, 55 and 41 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
- 36.🏆 In a robot challenge each can pushed into the circle scores 5 points. A robot pushes in 5 cans and gets 50 bonus points for parking in the end zone. What is its total score?
- 37.🏆 A robot scores 50, 51 and 52 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
- 38.🏆 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 4 blocks and touches the robot 3 times. What is the score?
- 39.🏆 Each block a robot stacks scores 20 points, and each time a team member touches the robot, the team loses 5 points. A team stacks 5 blocks and touches the robot 3 times. What is the score?
- 40.🏆 A robot scores 42, 51 and 50 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
Answer key
- to learn what works
- 94
- poor teamwork
- poor teamwork
- builder
- True
- False
- 140
- programmer
- note-keeper
- the rules
- learning and fair play
- plan the design
- False
- good teamwork
- compete and learn
- 185
- 88
- 77
- False
- 83
- False
- 60
- 24
- find the cause, retry
- True
- read the rules
- 70
- True
- 70
- False
- False
- test and improve
- tester
- 120
- 75
- 51
- 45
- 85
- 143
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