Milo the Mars Rover

What do scientists and engineers do when they cannot go where they want to explore? Today our 5th-grade students came up with an answer!

Using our brand new Lego WeDo 2.0 kits LEGO Education, students viewed videos of various robots designed to access places not safe for humans, including the video of the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral and the French-designed firefighting robot "Colossus". The students were challenged to build and program a rover that could detect 'plant life" then worked together collaboratively to design code with another rover to move the plant. After a few tries and some tweaking - the robots were all moving in the right direction and following instructions! Great job!