STEM In the Middle day 1

Which invention from this list would you eliminate forever from the past, present, and future?

• Bicycles

• The internet

• 3D printers

• Heated swimming pools

Christopher, Yanyla, and Emrald are building a robot for their science project. They need a sensor to detect obstacles. What is an ultrasonic sensor that they can use?

• A software program that manages the hardware components of a computer.

• An electronic device that measures distances based on transmitting and receiving sound waves at frequencies that are higher than the human ear can detect.

• Red lights that blink when something is close.

• A type of breadboard used in computer engineering.

Imagine Moriah, Zion, and Xaviar are working on a project to create a new mobile app. They decide to build a model of their app to test its functionality and design. What would you call this model?

• A prototype

• The next TikTok

• A new code

• A computer built to code websites

Use a red line to identify the 5v power rail. Use a blue line to identify the ground rail (read pg. 7 of your manual!)

Dakota, Moriah, and Isreal are working on a project together and need to program their remote control cars. Which tool should they use to write their code and program the cars?

• scratch.mit.edu

• Male to female wiring

• The LINGO kit

• The Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Christopher, Dakota, and Moriah are working on a project in their electrical engineering class. They need to measure voltages in their circuit. What should they use as a reference point for these measurements?

• Ground (GND), a commonly used reference point in an electrical circuit.

• The breadboard

• Arduino IDE

• A serial monitor

What was your favorite part from today?/what would you like to learn more about?

What is a microcontroller?

• A very small “computer” that can only run one program at a time.

• a program inside of an android

• microchips used for smart cars

• An app for video editing

Arduino IDE is the computer program that we will use to write all of our....

Sketch

• Drawing a quick picture

• A prototype for a program

• A type of electric circut

• The name that Arduino uses for a program. It’s the unit of code that is uploaded to and run on an Arduino board.