Sphero - The Main Challenge

After a few weeks of testing and debugging, we set a greater challenge for the Digital Leaders: Could they navigate the Sphero through an ever-narrowing maze?  Take a look:

The children were really engaged with the Sphero Minis and started to explore the other code blocks available to them quite naturally and without much encouragement.  A great tool for learning how to sequence code, test and debug.

Next, we hope to try out our BBC Microbits to see what we can do with them!

Sphero - With Greater Accuracy

After our initial steps at coding the Sphero, we moved onto challenges that required a bit more accuracy.  This led to lots (and lots) of testing, debugging, retesting, debugging... you get the picture.

Physical Computing with a Sphero

The Digital Leaders have moved onto testing the school's new Physical Computing technology.  We had a good go at using the Makey Makeys last year, so this year we are focusing on the Sphero and the BBC Microbit (more on that in a few weeks).

The children started learning how to control the Sphero by connecting to it using an iPad and Bluetooth. At first, we controlled it directly using a control pad.  Soon after that, we moved on to using code blocks to program our controls.

Here is a taste of the initial results: