The Science Olympiad’s newest Div. C event, Detector Building, is now one of the 23 approved events for this year’s competition. Texas Instruments (TI) has plenty of resources to help your team be competitive.
The Detector Building event combines coding, engineering, math and science into a working sensor that is calibrated and coded to collect data. The program students write will cause various LEDs to turn on or off based on the temperature readings. During the competition, students must adjust their code and calibration equation to closely match that of a store-bought digital thermometer.
Note: If you already have access to a TI-84 Plus CE, TI-Nspire™ CX graphing calculator, or the TI-Innovator™ Hub, make sure to update to the latest operating system and sketch versions. (See links below.)
The Detector Building kit is a subset of the TI-Innovator™ Breadboard Pack. The kit includes a TI Analog Temperature Sensor, red LED, green LED, blue LED, three male/female jumper cables, three male/male jumper cables, three 100-ohm resistors and a breadboard.
*Detector Building kits are limited to one per team/school, while supplies last.
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TI-Innovator™ Hub.
Move the Cone is a Rover STEM project that encourages students to write their own programs with commonly used Rover and TI Basic coding commands to have Rover complete a series of challenges involving polygons, the coordinate plane and equations.
The STEM activity Navigate “Math-hatten” Challenge engages students in exploration of connections between distance, rate, time and angles as they write a program that guides Rover through a scaled down, 3D-printed city.
In this Math in Motion Plus activity, students will write their own program for the TI-Innovator™ Rover. They will explore multiple representations of position, velocity and time to write code that will navigate a set of challenges.
In this Math in Motion Plus activity, students will write their own program for the TI-Innovator™ Rover. Students will explore inequalities and the number line while writing code to navigate a set of challenges. They will apply their knowledge of compound inequalities to write programs for Rover to demonstrate the inequalities on the number line.
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