Week of January 30-February 3

This week, the 3rd grade environmental engineers implemented their oil spill cleanup processes, evaluated how effective they were, and thought of ways to improve their processes. 3b was aslo able to carry out their improved plans, and all groups were successful at removing more oil!

We are cleaning the oil spill in our model river!

In 4th grade, we added a color sensor to our robots that can detect reflected light and specific colors. We learned that when the sensor is over white paper, a lot of light is reflected back, while the black line absorbs most of the light. We found the threshold by calculating the average between the two values. We also learned that a switch block can allow the robot to make decisions and complete different tasks based on these decisions. In the program below, we are using the color sensor and switch block to make the robot follow a red line.

In 5th grade, we wrote proposals that outlined the problems we identified at Menlo and how to solve them. We will present these proposals to Mr. Duggan and Mrs. Abetamarco to see if any of our ideas can be implemented at Menlo!

Ideas of how to make the hallways safer and quieter.