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FIRST robots : rack 'n' roll : behind the design : 30 profiles of award-winning robot designs / by Wilczynski, Vince.(CARDINAL)487896; Slezycki, Stephanie.(CARDINAL)487897;
Subjects: FIRST Robotics Competition (2007); Robotics.; Robots;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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FIRST robotics / by Gilby, Nancy Benovich,author.(CARDINAL)619530;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Makers of all ages are using LEGO bricks to create robots. In this book, students learn more about this recent innovation through detailed explanations built to foster creativity and critical thinking. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on maker-related concepts they may already know. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information."--Grades 4 to 6.Welcome to FIRST robotics -- What is FIRST robotics? -- The founder of FIRST -- FIRST robotics mindset -- The build season and the competition.1000LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Kamen, Dean; FIRST Robotics Competition; Robotics; Inventions;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The new cool : a visionary teacher, his FIRST robotics team, and the ultimate battle of smarts / by Bascomb, Neal.(CARDINAL)674535;
Includes bibliographical references.Dramatis personae -- Time line -- Prologue -- Kickoff -- Strategy -- Week one: 43 days until robot ship -- Week two: 36 days until robot ship -- Competition: the ThunderChickens, Team 217 -- Week three: 29 days until robot ship -- Week four: 22 days until robot ship -- Competition: 2Train Robotics, Team 395 -- Week five: 15 days until robot ship -- Week six: 8 days until robot ship -- 96 hours until ship -- Los Angeles Regional Competition: Long Beach Arena, March 12-14, part I -- Los Angeles Regional Competition: Long Beach Arena, March 12-14, part II -- Competition: Heroes of Tomorrow, Team 67 -- Sacramento Regional Competition: the Pavilion, University of California, Davis, March 26-28, part I -- Sacramento Regional Competition: the Pavilion, University of California, Davis, March 26-28, part II -- FIRST championship: Georgia Dome, Atlanta, April 16-18, part I -- FIRST championship: Georgia Dome, Atlanta, April 16-18, part II -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Game glossary -- Acknowledgments.Overview: That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory. But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of "cool" was brewing. A physics teacher with a dream-the first public high-school teacher ever to win a MacArthur Genius Award -- had rounded up a band of high-I.Q students who wanted to put their technical know-how to work. If you asked these brainiacs what the stakes were that first week of their project, they'd have told you it was all about winning a robotics competition-building the ultimate robot and prevailing in a machine-to-machine contest in front of 25,000 screaming fans at Atlanta's Georgia Dome. But for their mentor, Amir Abo-Shaeer, much more hung in the balance. The fact was, Amir had in mind a different vision for education, one based not on rote learning -- on absorbing facts and figures -- but on active creation. In his mind's eye, he saw an even more robust academy within Dos Pueblos that would make science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) cool again, and he knew he was poised on the edge of making that dream a reality. All he needed to get the necessary funding was one flashy win-a triumph that would firmly put his Engineering Academy at Dos Pueblos on the map. He imagined that one day there would be a nation filled with such academies, and a new popular veneration for STEM-a "new cool"-that would return America to its former innovative glory. It was a dream shared by Dean Kamen, a modern-day inventing wizard-often-called "the Edison of his time"-who'd concocted the very same FIRST Robotics Competition that had lured the kids at Dos Pueblos. Kamen had created FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) nearly twenty years prior. And now, with a participant alumni base approaching a million strong, he felt that awareness was about to hit critical mass. But before the Dos Pueblos D'Penguineers could do their part in bringing a new cool to America, they'd have to vanquish an intimidating lineup of "super-teams"-high-school technology goliaths that hailed from engineering hot spots such as Silicon Valley, Massachusetts' Route 128 technology corridor, and Michigan's auto-design belt. Some of these teams were so good that winning wasn't just hoped for every year, it was expected. In The New Cool, Neal Bascomb manages to make even those who know little about-or are vaguely suspicious of-technology care passionately about a team of kids questing after a different kind of glory. In these kids' heartaches and headaches-and yes, high-five triumphs -- we glimpse the path not just to a new way of educating our youth but of honoring the crucial skills a society needs to prosper. A new cool.
Subjects: FIRST (Organization); Engineering; Physics; Robotics; Robotics;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 13
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The robot makers. by Friend, Podoal,author.(CARDINAL)872873; Hong, Chong-hyŏn,artist.(CARDINAL)872874;
"La Ion has joined his first robot soccer game--but there is something odd about his opponents' robot. This graphic novel unpacks the mechanical elements of a robot and the history of automatons"--Ages 9-14Grades 4-6
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Robots; Science clubs;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Robotpedia / by Maloney, Brenna,author.(CARDINAL)499147;
What is a robot? -- Robot vs. human -- Robot pioneer: Leonardo da Vinci -- Fictional robots -- The first real robots -- Work bots -- Service bots -- Play bots -- Police and fire bots -- Military robots -- Search and rescue bots -- Medical bots -- Explorer bots: land and sky -- Explorer bots: space -- Mars rover landing -- Explorer bots: underwater -- Robot pioneer: Matthew Johnson-Robertson -- Social robots -- Robot pioneer: Cynthia Breazeal -- Anatomy of a robot: Asimo -- Animal bots -- Artificial intelligence -- Microbots and nanobots -- Future bots -- DIY bots -- Competitions, conferences, and camps.Take an in-depth look at the history and cultural impact of robots through the years in this educational and interactive guide! Robots are everywhere-building cars, driving cars, performing surgery, helping soldiers and fire fighters, even vacuuming! From high up in space to the bottom of the ocean, robots are an instrumental part of how humans are learning about the world. This encyclopedic guide to robotics takes kids through the evolution of robotic technology: from the ancient Greek inventors, to the first robot at the World's Fair, to nanotechnology already in use today, to D.I.Y. robotics, and even a peek into the robotic future as told by the scientists creating it. And keeping readers company along the way are many of our favorite robots from film and TV. Filled with interactive inserts, Robotpedia takes a fun approach to STEM learning.
Subjects: Drone aircraft; Robotics; Robotics; Robots; Robots;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The modern nerd's guide to robot battles / by Shofner, Melissa Raé,author.(CARDINAL)627274;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The age of robots -- In the beginning -- Battles rules -- A sport for everyone -- Designing a battle bot -- Weight and cost -- Choose your weapon -- Safety first! -- Other robotics competitions -- Let the games begin! -- Getting involved -- Think like an engineer -- Turning a hobby into a career.Robot battling is one of the hottest hobbies out there, with dedicated television shows, international stars, and crazy, freaky, metal creations. Now, the inside scoop on the wild world of robot battling is available to budding enthusiasts everywhere. Filled with insider know-how, action-packed graphics, and dynamic color photographs, this volume guides readers through this imaginative world of automated competition. The exciting yet accessible language inspires and engages with every turn of the page, ensuring this book will be a hit in any collection.
Subjects: Robotics; Military robots;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Careers in robotics / by Hand, Carol,1945-author.(CARDINAL)498489;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-76) and index.Finding and working in makerspaces -- From makerspaces to robotics careers -- Home and medical robotics careers -- Industrial and military robotics careers -- Preparing for a robotics career -- Finding a job in robotics."Robotics is one of the most exciting career fields of the twenty-first century. This stimulating volume introduces readers to robotics makerspaces and describes how student makerspace experiences and robotics competitions can lead to a career in robotics. It captures the breadth of the robotics industry, describing recent robotics research in home control, medicine, industry, and the military and outlines the skills, education, and degrees required to work in robotics, and the process of finding a robotics job. Informative profiles of several makerspaces as well as day-in-the-life scenarios of roboticists in the space program and the service industry, among others, will keep readers engaged."--provided by publisher.Grade 7Grades 7-12+
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Robotics;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Spare parts : four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream / by Davis, Joshua,1974-author.(CARDINAL)471496;
Relates how four undocumented Mexican immigrants in Arizona put together an underwater robot from scavenged parts and went on to win the National Underwater Robotics Competition at UC Santa Barbara.Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest ... and a major motion picture. In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much, but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot. And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially compared to those of the competition. They were going up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of scavenged parts. This was never a level competition, and yet, against all odds ... they won! But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story--which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement--will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in Afghanistan. Joshua Davis's Spare Parts is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and four young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country--even as the country tried to kick them out.930LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Robotics; Remote submersibles; Mexican American boys; Mexican Americans;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja. by Emerson, Marcus,author.(CARDINAL)613249; Child, Noah,author.(CARDINAL)613251; Lee, David(Illustrator),illustrator.(CARDINAL)824185;
The name's Chase Cooper, and this is my tenth diary as a 6th grade ninja. If I had a penny for every time trouble came knocking at my door... I'd have ten pennies. A few days have passed since the green ninja clan appeared, but that's more than enough time for them to give me a headache. It doesn't help that my attention is stretched between a crazy robotics competition, an annoying pirate poser, and the ex-leader of the red ninja clan. Somehow Wyatt and I have found ourselves on the same side of the fence this time, but we've made a deal - if I help him get his ninja clan back then he'll leave me alone forever. Now Wyatt and I are on a mission to figure out who the leaders of the new ninja clans are, but working with Wyatt definitely isn't easy. Whoever said "keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer" obviously never met Wyatt.650LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Diary fiction.; Middle school students; Ninja; Diaries;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Build your own combat robot / by Miles, Pete.(CARDINAL)422556; Carroll, Tom.(CARDINAL)504738;
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Robots;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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