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Adventures In STEM Robot Car

Hands-on motorized car project created for 2nd-4th graders (NGSS).  4-week.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, Energy, Design

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Arcade Bot

Build a simple robot arcade bot that throws ball!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Servo Motors

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Automata Toy

Build an automata toy!
Difficulty: Advanced
Engineering Focus: Circuits, DC motors, Automata, Gearing, CAMs

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Balloon Rockets

Build balloon rockets that shoot across the room
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Newton's laws

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Battle Bots

Build a wobbling battle bots (Scribble Bot remix)
Difficulty: Beginner
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, Balance

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Brushbot (Critter)

Build a vibrating robot out of a toothbrush head
Difficulty: Beginner
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors

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Candy Machine

Build a candy machine dispenser
Difficulty: Advanced
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors
Status: Still Prototyping

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Catapult Basketball

Build a catapult and use it to play basketball!
Difficulty: Beginner
Engineering Focus: Kinetic/Potential energy

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Critter Bot

Build a vibrating robot out of a medicine cup.  An easier to build remix of the traditional brushbot project!
Difficulty: Beginner
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors

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Crazy Carousel

Build a motorized carousel!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, DC Motors

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Doorbell

Build your own buzzing doorbell
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Buzzers, Conductivity

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Dune Buggy

Build a motorized dune buggy
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, Gears

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Fan-tastic Robot

Build a fan!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, DC motors

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Hologram

Build a spinning hologram!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Art, Motors

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Hot Air Balloon

Build a spinning hot air balloon
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors
Status: Prototyping

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Leprechaun Trap

Build a leprechaun trap
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Mechanical

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Light Up Baby Bots

Build a robot with light up eyes
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, LEDS, Breadboarding

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Light Up Greeting Card

Build a light up greeting card
Difficulty: Beginner
Engineering Focus: Circuits, LEDs

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Mechanical Claw

Build a mechanical claw without any batteries!
Difficulty: Beginner
Engineering Focus: Mechanical

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Mice Maze

Build a robot mice maze labyrinth game
Difficulty: Advanced
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, Servos

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Mini Bus

Build a bus!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors

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Mini Golf

Build a robot mini golfer and a course to go with it!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, Servos

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Model Airplane

Build a model light up airplane
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, LEDs, Parallel Circuits

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Movie Maker

Build a movie maker called a Zoetrope
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors

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Pinball Machine

Build your own pinball machine
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors
Status: Prototyping

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Power Line (Hot Wire Game)

Build a hot wire game using a buzzer
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Buzzers, Conductivity

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Quartz Clock Making

Build your own clock!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Piezo-electric effect, Counting, Telling Time, Gears

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Robot Operation Game (Buzzer Only)

Build your own robot game based on the classic game "Operation"
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Buzzers

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Robot Operation Game (Buzzer + LED)

Build your own robot game based on the classic game "Operation" with LED and Buzzer
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Buzzers, LEDs

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Rolling Racer

Build a rolling racer that moves with a motor!
Difficulty: Beginner
Engineering Focus: Potential/Kinetic Energy, Rubber Bands

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Paper LED Art Circuits

Create light up art using LEDs!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, LEDs, Conductivity

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Scribble Bot

Build a simple robot that scribbles!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Art, Motors

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Snowman Bot

Build a wobbling snowman! (Scribble-bot remix)
Difficulty: Beginner
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, Switches, Balance

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Snow Globe

Build a spinning snow globe!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors
Status: Prototyping

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Spinning Top

Build a robotic spinning top
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Physics (Angular Momentum)

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Super Shades

Build light up glasses!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits

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Tugboat

Build a floating tugbot!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, Buoyancy

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Undirection Day: Buzzers

Invent something using a buzzer
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Creativity

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Undirection Day: LEDs, Vibration Motors

Invent something using an LED and vibration motor!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, LEDs, Motors, Creativity

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Undirection Day: Switch, DC Motors

Invent something using a switch and DC motor
Difficulty: Intermediate
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Motors, Creativity

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Barnabas-Bot

Build your own 3-D printed robot from group up
Difficulty: Beginner
Age: 8+
Pacing: 16 x 1 hr
Engineering Focus: Computer Aided Design, 3-D Printing, Circuits, Coding, Arduino

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Barnabas Racer

Build a robot car that can move and think on it's own!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Age: 9+
Pacing: 16 x 1 hr
Engineering Focus: Coding, Servo Motors, Distance Sensors

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Barnabas Rover

Build a robot car that can move and think on it's own! (DC Motor Version)
Difficulty: Intermediate
Age: 9+
Pacing: 16 x 1 hr
Engineering Focus: Coding, Servo Motors, Distance Sensors

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Coding With Robotics

Learn coding by building an interactive video game + robot
Difficulty: Beginner
Age: 8+
Pacing: 16 x 1 hr
Engineering Focus: Circuits, Coding, Mechanical Build, MBlock

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