Robotics

Project Location

Country: 
Sweden
City: 
Ronneby

Organization

Organization Name: 
Gymnasieskolan Knut Hahn
Organization Type: 
School
Specify: 
Erasmus+

Website

http://teknist.se

Privacy Law

Consenso al trattamento dei dati personali
Do you authorize the FMD to the treatment of your personal data?: 
I do authorize the FMD to the use of my personal data.

Project Type

Education up to 18 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

The students of the school Gymnsieskolan Knut Hahn in Ronneby, Sweden, have been taught how to build simple robots using Little bits and trash within the EU-project Make:Learn:Share:Europe. The students then went along and taught primary school students how to build "shitty robots". The students of Gymnasieskolan Knut Hahn also taught students with migrant background who are about to enter secondary school how to make "shitty robots" as well.

 

Watch a clip of the student of Gymnasieskolan Knut Hahn making their own "shitty robots": https://youtu.be/TAIMvFiIFSc

 

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

Students teaching students how to make simple robots using trash.

How long has your project been running?

2016-09-01 00:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

To enforce and promote peer-to-peer learning and make the sharing culture a natural part of the students every day life.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
The project isn't finished yet.
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

5-10 ambassadors teaching about 15-30 other students via workshops at the school.

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
Less than 1 year
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
Less than 10.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Specify: 
Upper secondary school
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
Yes
Since when?: 
2017-09-01 00:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
Yes
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

It's really simple to set up a learning environment like this and the students love it. All schools should inspire to peer-to-peer learning like this or in simular fashion.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Barriers and Solutions (max. 1000 characters): 
We could make better workshops if we could get more Little bit units (they are a bit costy).
environmental sustainability Robotics ICT

Project Location

Country: 
Greece
City: 
Trikala

Organization

Organization Name: 
TriRoboNauts
Organization Type: 
Other

Website

https://padlet.com/kareri/trirobonauts

Privacy Law

Consenso al trattamento dei dati personali
Do you authorize the FMD to the treatment of your personal data?: 
I do authorize the FMD to the use of my personal data.

Project Type

Education up to 15 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

Our team, TriRoboNauts, is oriented to Inquiry based Learning for Space Awareness through Robotics. We built a project, "A Mars colony" in order the further exploration of our Milky Way. We believe that Astronomy and Space can be approached better, through robotics hands-on activities. Our project was ranked 2nd in the National Educational Robotics competition 2016, https://tinyurl.com/ybppo67t , in Athens, and had been selected from over 800 participants from 36 countries as one of the ten best StarT projects in 2017, http://start.luma.fi/en/ideas/the-best-of-start-2017/

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

Team Name: TriRoboNauts (Trikala Robotic Astronauts)

1. Fotis Roumeliotis

2. Nektarios Siomos

3. Stefania Spahou

4. Vasilis Staridas

5. Galini Stafila

Teacher-Coach: Eleftheria Karagiorgou, Computer Science and Robotics teacher

Our project is a Mars colony, that includes:

1. Space ship launch base

2. Space ship

3. Communication centre- Satellite dish

4.Greenhouse with control centre for the temperature, the light and the conditions for the growth of our vegetables (like spinach) 

5. Oxygen producing centre for the greenhouse

6. Communication satellite and meteorological satellite

7. Stone robotic collector from Olympus mountain that converts stones into soil for the greenhouse

8. Rover for the transportation of stones

9. Solar panels for producing energy

The space colony on Mars is the start for the Milky Way exploration. All the above were built with Lego and Lego WeDo

Inspiration for our project:

•  the text “Fantastic trips into space”, from the Greek school book of 5th grade which is part of the Greek book of Rena Petropoulou, "Ο Σοφούλης ο Ψαλιδούλης και η απόδραση στο Διάστημα".•

•  the project "Popeye on Mars", which has been developed by Greek scientists and the main idea is the building of a greenhouse for the cultivation of spinach on Mars. The specific project has been presented in a NASA contest.

The whole project was based on a lot of testings and changes. You can see our video of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ogB0Djf54A (in English), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mciSHkxI7A (in Greek)

The project doesn't end here: We organised an "Asteroid Day" event, in order to learn more about Asteroids and their impact to our Solar System. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnOrfEBtX_c

In our learning diary, you can see more about our activities: https://padlet.com/kareri/trirobonauts

How long has your project been running?

2015-12-01 00:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

The objectives of the project "Building a Mars colony with Robotics" are:

1. raising Space awareness through Robotics

2. learning to collaborate in a team

3. learning through Inquiry based learning

4. learning coding through Robotics, with Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/)

5. learning about storytelling, by using our imagination for the scenario of the project

The instruments used in our project are:

1. Lego WeDo+motors+sensors

2. Internet for searching informations about space and Mars

3. Scratch environment for coding

4. Windows Movie Maker for the videos

5. Learning Diary-Padlet (https://padlet.com)

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
The students-members of the team started reading more about Space and Astronomy, whereas, their interest for Eucational Robotics is bigger. The bonds among the members of the team are strong. A member of the team, Stefania, was inspired and built a "Solar System" project, which combines craftwork and Lego WeDo, as a school project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d3GI94leEw
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

Through our videos, we can calculate the interaction with users, since we can measure the views of our videos and the like/dislike preferences

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
Less than 10.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Other
Specify: 
Robotics team
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
No

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

I don' t know if others are interested in our project or in our team, what I know is that we have passion and love for what we are doing, as a team. I want to believe that the students -members of the team see some other aspects of STEAM that in formal education is very rare to happen. I hope that being members of TriRoboNauts will change their lives and potential for the better!

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
Our team will continue to exist, with events and activities about Space and Robotics...because we love Space!
Attachments: 
PDF icon Presentation of the project "Building a Mars colony with Robotics"
PDF icon Why is Mars called the Red planet? Learning about Chemistry with Lego bricks-Depiction of Fe2O3
Image icon The logo of TriRoboNauts-Robotics team
Image icon All the members of TriRoboNauts
TriRoboNauts Robotics Space Inquiry based learning mars Lego WeDo colony

Project Location

Country: 
Italy
City: 
Gorgonzola

Organization

Organization Name: 
ITIS Marconi
Organization Type: 
School

Website

www.6cultures1tech.eu

Privacy Law

Consenso al trattamento dei dati personali
Do you authorize the FMD to the treatment of your personal data?: 
I do authorize the FMD to the use of my personal data.

Project Type

Education up to 18 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

The project brings several cultures together through similar students and teachers interest which is robotics. Thanks to our project we want to demonstrate that technology becomes a common language spoken worldwide.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

The immediate need for starting the international cooperation and writing the project was one of the objectives of the Comenius Programme, such as development of young people of our schools in different areas of education, the desire to understand other cultures and establish new friendships based on common interests. The project should discover in young people the need to absorb knowledge from different domains. It means that technicians should create a community not limited to technical-oriented subjects but have good general knowledge on European countries, their traditions, history, politics.
We are convinced that thanks to technology it is possible to make students of different ages, education and backgrounds work together. It means that thanks to the project students will broaden their educational horizons, focus not only on technology and science (robotics, physics, mathematics, mechanics, programming, multimedia production, website creation, etc.) but also acquire additional knowledge which are the humanities (foreign languages, history, culture, arts, civics, geography and even theology and sociology). It also means they will have a chance to become broadly educated and to create a society of technical intelligence.
All those goals will be accomplished through common action, e.g. building a website, preparing documentation and works (on robotics, European culture, traditions, etc. ), communication between partners, mobilities, visiting interesting places. Teachers of different subjects (technical and general) are engaged. Students of technical schools teach their colleagues the principles of robotics. There are six partners involved in the project (Poland, Italy, Portugal, Estonia, Lithuania, Spain), the language of communication is English.
The project assumes evaluation on students and teachers level and also dissemination of the results.

How long has your project been running?

2012-08-30 22:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

Objectives of partnership and subjects to address:
-promoting the spirit of widely-educated society (technicians with good knowledge of the humanities, general-educated graduates with bases of tech. knowledge)-workshops, visits;
-tech. and scientific education through innovative approaches taken from robotics at any level of educational system (build robots, program, make measurements, use ICT in everyday life)
-workshops, projects;
-cultural exchange (by learning history, traditions, habits, civics, geography of partner countries, tech. development)
-visits, discussions, workshops, projects;
-language learning and linguistic diversity (project held in English, CLIL, on-line tech. dictionary-apx. 100 terms) and breaking the language barriers (work in internat. groups), achieving level B2, teachers improve their language holding lessons in English;
-promoting cooperation, creativity, personal fulfillment and growth of an entrepreneurial spirit through common creation of work and documentation;
-supporting the development and using of ICT-based contents through Open Source tools (creating website, videoconferences, text, image and video edition, cloud computing)-workshops, projects;
-paying attention to timeless matters (role of religion, God, cloning, euthanasia, advanced medicine, biology, physics, artificial intelligence and its danger, replacing humans by robots, human endurance and organism efficiency in sport, doping, life without computers and new tech.)-discussions, projects, creating articles as a documentation;
-achieving an increased awareness of students (learning abroad, new perspectives for future careers, quality of life) and teachers (comparing teaching methods and curriculum) about the importance of European cooperation, sharing information.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
• Teachers and students met each other in Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Spain, Portugal. • Teachers and students knew each others cultures and traditions. • Students wrote articles about the meetings and uploaded them on the school website. • Creation of a website for the project – http://www.6cultures1tech.eu/. • Making of a video about Christmas, describing habits and traditions. Upload of the video on the project website. • Upload a describing school video on the project website. • Students developed a logo for the project. • Students attended lessons of English. • Students attended lessons of Robotics. • Students worked in age-mixed groups, building and programming robots using only touch sensor. • Students worked in age-mixed groups, building and programming robots using only light sensor. • Students worked in age-mixed groups, building and programming robots using only sound sensor. • Teachers and students discussed about science and ethics; the role of religion; cloning and advanced medicine. • Students worked in age-mixed groups, building and programming robots using all the sensors that have analysed. • Teachers and students discussed about IT development and its future. • Teachers and students discussed a World of Robots. • Frequent contact between all the participants on the facebook group during the project. • Compiling and sharing photos of all activities on the website. Evaluation during the project: 1. Monitoring of deadlines-Evaluation of degree of tasks implementation resulting from the schedule-led by the coordinator. 2. Online questionnaires and diaries-Each meeting; 3. Internet teachers forum (see F.2.-Communication); 4. Students involvement; 5. Monitoring of carried out tasks or results; 6. Students improved their general knowledge in robotics and the humanities
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

There were groups of students (any school 50 students and 5 teachers in two years) in the project that had specific tasks to do. Their work was supervised by the coordinators. Communication was ensured through modern means of transmission, video conferencing, email, instant messaging and website. Cooperation was also accomplished by frequent access to the website itself, where students and teachers virtually met and worked together.
During the meetings dominated Interactive communication techniques, teamwork, brainstorming and debates.

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
From 75.001 to 500.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Specify: 
Istituto Tecnico Industriale
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
Yes
Since when?: 
2012-08-30 22:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

Who has access to the project site will realize how rewarding it was working on a project that involved six cultures, quite distinct from each other, and used robotics as a common language. It will also be obvious to realize that it is worth associating with other people that develops common interest and works on European scale.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
Some of the products that were created to promote the project, such as the projects of different robots or documentation created to this purpose are available on the project site (www.6cultures1tech.eu). These products can also serve as an example and perhaps inspiration for others.
Robotics ICT Comenius

Project Location

Country: 
Italy
City: 
Gorgonzola (MI)

Organization

Organization Name: 
ITIS G. Marconi
Organization Type: 
School

Website

www.automatos.eu

Privacy Law

Consenso al trattamento dei dati personali
Do you authorize the FMD to the treatment of your personal data?: 
I do authorize the FMD to the use of my personal data.

Project Type

Education up to 18 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

The project aims to involve students and teachers in a partnership with the characteristics of a modern international enterprise, to prepare new generation to the challenge of the actual labour market. The partners bring their different skills (Mechanics and Electronics Poland, Informatics and Artificial Intelligence Italy) in an international cooperation with the clear goal to develop a robot to take part in the RoboCup Junior 2016 in two years.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

The immediate need for starting the international cooperation and writing the project is one of the objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme, such as development of young people of our schools in different areas of education, the desire to understand other cultures and establish new friendships based on common interests, the necessity of promoting the take-up of practical entrepreneurial experiences in young people.
Also the willing to increase our effort in the Robotics engagement, as our schools have been working in this field for years in different direction. Now the students and teachers desire is to take part to the Worldwide RoboCup junior 2016. As in our schools there are not all the necessary resources to develop a complete robot, for example the Italian partner school has not a Mechanics department, we decided to look for partners abroad, aiming at a double challenge: the Robotics competition and, on the other side, the challenge to work with people far away from us, like in the modern globalized labour market. So we decided to achieve that giving us the structure of a modern international enterprise, studying the laws that regulate them, and following the normal procedure followed to manage an international project.
The partners bring their different skills (Mechanics and Electronics Poland, Informatics and Artificial Intelligence Italy) in an international cooperation with the clear goal to develop a robot to take part in the RoboCup Junior 2016 in two years.
To obtain this result students will be involved in all the steps necessary to set up and manage a company in their country and a joint venture with two EU co-venturers.
Teachers of different subjects are engaged. Students with different skills and age work together. There are two partners involved in the project, Italy and Poland Italy, the language of communication is English.

How long has your project been running?

2014-08-30 22:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

The main objectives our project is focused on, are:
-introduce students to the typical structure of a modern international enterprise;
-give them the chance to appreciate the importance of English;
-let them take part in a challenge with people with a common goal, as it happens to people in society or work framework, trying to make students more responsible;
-give teacher the chance to start working with CLIL.
- acquire Robotics skills.
Our schools already have Robotics clubs, students already take part to Robotics competitions, they have curricular lesson on Robotics. But with this project they can realize that a long term plan and an organization is necessary to reach an important goal and appreciate the need of rules and responsibility inside a group to make the group work. They can also learn to get acquainted with laws and procedures needed to set up a national and international company and try to set up the work environment. With this project they can be aware of the reason for joining far away living people to overcome difficulties and reach a goal and fully appreciate and experiment several aspects of working together in an international environment.

The core of the project is setting up an enterprise, so we follow the typical way of working of the productive world. Any partner sets up a company with its organizational chart, with specific tasks and responsibility for any students taking part in the project. Pupils have to take care of the different aspects of management and planning and production, teachers act as supervisors and guides. Students work is supervised by local coordinators. Students exchange information through modern means of transmission (telephony-including VoIP tech., Skype), video conferencing, email, instant messaging, website. Cooperation will be obtained also with frequent access to the website itself, which will become the place where students and teachers virtually meet and work together.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
We want to produce two robots per each partner to take part in the 2016 World RoboCup Junior. The website will show how to set up a company to young people interested in it. The material of the courses attended by students (SS) and teachers (TS) (how to set up a national enterprise, how to set up a joint venture in the UE, technical courses) will be published on the project website. RESULTS: 2014 September-December Project website first release, E-Twinning platform creation, Project boards created at school. Team and calendar. How to set up a national enterprise (course). Creation of the National Enterprise and roles of SS. Project proposals of the robot. Evaluation Report. Photo gallery and a diary of the first meeting. Intercultural dialogue and awareness. Websites posts. 2015 January-June Websites posts. SS reports of the first meeting results in their classes. Material of the course on how to Manage a CMS website. Evaluation report. Photo gallery and a diary of the meeting. SS report of the second meeting results in their classes. Articles in local newspapers. Increased feeling of belonging to a common European society and culture. Project corner exhibition. Robot Tests uploaded to the website. Material of Mechanics and Electronics Robotics development Course uploaded to the website. Photo gallery and a diary of the meeting.Video published in Youtube. Articles in local newspapers. We will use as indicators: - the respect of the deadlines of tasks implementation; - meeting questionnaires and diaries; - students involvement; - task results, acquired knowledge on robotics, company management; - online questionnaire. The project website will include an anonymous questionnaire with a box to enter comments; - the outcomes are produced and they are valuable.
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

The students (30) and teachers (4) involved follow the typical way of working of the productive world. Any partner sets up a company with specific tasks and responsibility for any students. Pupils have to take care of the different aspects of management and planning and production, teachers act as supervisors and guides. Students exchange information in electronic way, through modern means of transmission (telephony-including VoIP tech., Skype), video conferencing, email, instant messaging, website.

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
From 30.001 to 75.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Specify: 
Istituto Tecnico I
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
Yes
Since when?: 
2015-07-30 22:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

Any product of the project will be free and useable from anyone interested in the subjects we will cover. Any drawing, electronic project, software will be available as Open Educational Resource, in an electronic format compatible with at least one Open Source/free software, stored in the project website and organized to be easily traced.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
Some products (particularly constructed robots, created documentation) will be used for a long time in our schools during the robotics classes, promoting the project and the program at the same time. These products can be used during the open days of our schools, education trades, regional workshops on Erasmus+ program encouraging pupils to choose these schools for their further education and teachers to start similar ventures. The website will be the main dissemination tool for produced documentation, which will be available to everyone interested in robotics. The description of the project on the website could help to find new partners interested in producing documentation throughout Europe.
Robotics international ICT erasmus+ entrepreneurial
Subscribe to RSS - Robotics