Welcome

__**Welcome to The Robotics Roundtable**__. The Robotics Roundtable is the meeting place for a project-based unit inviting students to explore robotics and robots - their uses, programming and designs. Students are invited to share the information they learn on these pages. They are also invited to discuss ideas, designs, questions and confusions.

Some questions to consider: What is the difference between a robot and a machine? What makes a robot a robot? What makes a machine a machine? Who invented the first robot? Why was it invented? Are there problems that could be created with the increased use of robots in society? Do robots make our lives easier or more challenging? Why? Does it depend on the person? Why? What jobs do robots do? How do robots affect your daily life? What other questions do you have about robots and robotics?

Robots and robotics are increasingly a part of our daily lives. One example of a robot is Jason, that helped located the wreck of the Titanic on September 1, 1985.



Find examples of robots at home, in transportation, and in local industries. Through this project, we hope you will discover how robots and computers have changed the way people live and work. We also hope you will begin to think creatively and perhaps invent a high-tech computer no one has ever thought of. What new job could a robot do?

As always, school appropriate language and behavior is expected. Students who do not follow the appropriate use policy of the Des Moines Public Schools will be removed from the site. Questions can be sent to Jenny Schiltz, GT Consultant at jennifer.schiltz@dmschools.org or 242-7939.