As high school students, they are working on a project that could be equivalent to an undergraduate senior project. I stress to my team to continue learning, ask questions, search our resources, and never quit. It can get hard and frustrating, but we're not going to quit on Vivian. Students have to research, reach out and collaborate with individuals who can guide them in the process. As for working with Vivian and her family, the project puts a "client" as the focus. It's not a competition, but an end product that will change lives. The students have learned to listen to the family for their ideas, talk about options, as well as experience the joy in seeing the progress in the cart’s development and the joy from a family who, in their wildest dreams, didn't think something like this could be done for them.Īs a teacher and robotics coach, what are your strategies for encouraging and guiding design thinking in students?įirst, I stress it’s a process and that very few hit the homerun right away, failures are okay, and we are learning more every day to find success in the project. The challenge of developing an autonomous cart to move and respond to obstacles as well as keep in a five-foot contact with Vivian is more complex than the robots we build for FIRST Tech Challenge. You called Project Fullplae the “ultimate design thinking challenge.” What did your students learn from the design and build process and from collaborating with Vivian’s family? Below, Peter shares insight on how he guides students in design thinking and overcoming failures and the benefits of mentoring student teams: ET, as Twitch Partner DeeJay Knight meets with the students and coaches. Read more about Vivian’s story from TMJ4.įor more on SFROBOTICS, tune in on the FIRST Twitch Channel Friday, March 30, at 11 a.m. They are also working towards version 2 and the sensors needed to make it fully autonomous so it avoids obstacles yet stays with the energetic three-year-old. Building from their FIRST Tech Challenge experience, the students (Alex Reid, Jacob Bednarski, Colton Feirer, Georgia Hancock, Josh Wendlick, Ryan Putnam, and Alec Stys) met with Vivian’s family, gathered requirements, sourced donations and expertise, and worked afterschool for more than a year on version 1, which is remote-controlled by her parents and has required some modifications after testing on the carpet in Vivian’s home. They accepted the challenge, naming it “Project Fullplae” – with the goal of enabling Vivian to “play fully” by creating a robot that would carry her equipment and follow her around. Could the students build a robotic medical cart? In 2016, a local TV reporter approached Peter was with what he calls the “ultimate design thinking challenge” for his high schoolers: A young girl named Vivian, who has a congenital neurological disorder, was learning to walk, but she was held back by her life-sustaining medical equipment. Inspired to engage his students to be innovators who ignite change in the world, Peter started the “ONEIGHTY” initiative that encourages them to take on STEM-based projects that give back. Francis, Wisconsin, leads SFROBOTICS, the robotics program for his school district. Peter Graven, an eighth-grade science teacher at Deer Creek Intermediate School in St. SFROBOTICS students with Vivian’s robot (Photo by Jennifer Kresse) Workplace Giving & Corporate Matching Gifts.
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