Eng Soc student life fair

What we'll have on sessions next term:

• Snacks, fun & robotics

• Abraham Lincoln

• Marvel Marathons

• Boredom

Which of these are true? (Select all that apply)

• MIT has a nuclear reactor.

• Harvard and MIT are 3.2 km apart.

• The American imperial system is much better than metric, and the difference in units benefits society.

• MIT & NASA uses metric.

This is the Tacoma narrows bridge. When built it was the 3rd largest suspension bridge. How/Why did it collapse

• Soldiers did not break march when crossing, making it wobble left and right.

• A 35 km/h wind happened to make it wobble like spaghetti.

• A helicopter did not notice it and flew into it.

• On its first day of opening lots of people went on it, and made it oscillate left and right.

What coding language will we be (mostly) looking at next year?

• Python

• C++

• C#

• JavaScript

What is this robot dog called?

• Buddy

• Spot

• Killerbot900

• Woof

What are these little circular things on circuit boards?

• Fiducials.

  they glow in the dark, so circuit builder robots know where the board is

• Contact pads. They are there for parts to be attached to them.

• Shebangs.

  They are just a byproduct of the manufacturing process.

• Massachusetts.

  They are slightly radioactive identifier chips.

Which bridge had one side built 54 cm higher than the other due to sea-levels being measured in different places?

• Golden Gate Bridge

• Tower Bridge

• The Laufenburg Bridge

• Széchenyi Lánchíd

What is the job of the Bootloader on an Arduino?

• To take care of extra voltage and to make sure the Arduino doesn't get damaged by it

• To connect the Arduino to the computer

• To boot up the Arduino once it's connected to the computer

• To forward and write the new program in the memory of the Arduino

What polygons are the bestagons? (according to CGP grey)

• Pentagons

• Hexagons

• Triangles

• Squares

Which Python operation prints out the following: Hello World

• printf(Hello World)

• console.log.(Hello World)

• display(Hello World)

• print("Hello World")