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Jaclyn and her friends in the First Lego League would get a cht nee to meet and work with Dr. Murphy. They would also get to “play” with the robots brought by several graduate students from MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
As soon as Dr. Murphy finished her presentation, the young robotosists broke away from the adults and were given the challenge. Using the seven shoebox-sized robots equipped with camera “eyes” and a cardboard environment brought by the graduate students, they were to rescue the “victims” of an urban disaster. The environment was a maze of buildings with infrared “bodies” buried under the rubble.
To do this they had to assess the terrain, make decisions about how to proceed, select the appropriate robots for the tasks and then program and reprogram the robots. And they had to work together.
At the end of the two or three hour “preparation” the children’s robots were put to the test. The disaster environment was in one room. The children were safely away in another room, at the computer, guiding their programmed robots through buildings, around dangerous areas and
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