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Robotics Worksheet: Competitions and Teamwork

Robotics lesson 28: Competitions and teamwork · Set 691 · 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.🏆 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. 2.🏆 A robot scores 40, 34 and 20 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  3. 3.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to copy another team? (a) poor teamwork (b) good teamwork
  4. 4.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to blame one person? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
  5. 5.🏆 In a robot team, who puts the robot together? (a) builder (b) tester (c) note-keeper (d) team captain
  6. 6.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is poor teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: to say sorry for mistakes is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  8. 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. 9.🏆 In a robot team, who writes the code? (a) tester (b) note-keeper (c) builder (d) programmer
  10. 10.🏆 In a robot team, who keeps the design diary? (a) note-keeper (b) team captain (c) programmer (d) builder
  11. 11.🏆 Before a robot competition, what should a team read first? (a) the rules (b) the menu (c) a comic (d) nothing
  12. 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. 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. 14.True or false: to do all the work alone is good teamwork. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🏆 Good or poor teamwork: to listen to every idea? (a) good teamwork (b) poor teamwork
  16. 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. 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. 18.🏆 A robot scores 23, 21 and 44 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  19. 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. 20.True or false: to laugh at a wrong idea is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  21. 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. 22.True or false: to copy another team is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🏆 A robot scores 60, 45 and 75 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  24. 24.🏆 A robot scores 24, 19 and 29 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  25. 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. 26.True or false: to listen to every idea is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  27. 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. 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. 29.True or false: to ignore the rules is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  30. 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. 31.True or false: to ignore the rules is good teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to listen to every idea is poor teamwork. (a) False (b) True
  33. 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. 34.🏆 In a robot team, who runs trials and checks? (a) tester (b) note-keeper (c) programmer (d) team captain
  35. 35.🏆 A robot scores 24, 55 and 41 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?
  36. 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. 37.🏆 A robot scores 50, 51 and 52 points in three rounds. What is its average score?
  38. 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. 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. 40.🏆 A robot scores 42, 51 and 50 points in three rounds. All rounds count. What is the total?

Answer key

  1. to learn what works
  2. 94
  3. poor teamwork
  4. poor teamwork
  5. builder
  6. True
  7. False
  8. 140
  9. programmer
  10. note-keeper
  11. the rules
  12. learning and fair play
  13. plan the design
  14. False
  15. good teamwork
  16. compete and learn
  17. 185
  18. 88
  19. 77
  20. False
  21. 83
  22. False
  23. 60
  24. 24
  25. find the cause, retry
  26. True
  27. read the rules
  28. 70
  29. True
  30. 70
  31. False
  32. False
  33. test and improve
  34. tester
  35. 120
  36. 75
  37. 51
  38. 45
  39. 85
  40. 143

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