Creative Inventions and Robotics Laboratory Welcome to the

Build-It-Yourself is looking for a few smart ladies and some hairy-chested men to save the world from vile villains who build mean machines... and scurrilous scoundrels who make a mess. The Mission

Team Introductions Favorite… 1)Project 2)Hero 3)Hobby 4)Quote Least favorite thing to do … 30 Seconds!!!

1) Respect teammates:Did you share ideas, help someone or lead your team? 2) Respect your lab:Did you clean up, take care of tools and sort parts? 3) Don’t do stupid stuff:Did you do anything you would not want your parents or teacher to know? Law of the Lab

Consequences If you don’t follow the rules, you must apologize to your teammates: Strike 1 – Warning. Strike 2 – Write note to director. Strike 3 – May be kicked off the team.

Golden Rule The Build-It-Yourself Laboratory is for dreamers and builders.. Anyone who destroys something or says, “I CAN’T” Will get SWIZZORBLOTZ’D

The Swizzorblotz Machine Video

Extreme Building Multiple brains are better than one. Share ideas.

Extreme Building How many people do you think it took to get to the moon? 36,000 people worked for NASA in 1969.

Extreme Building Teams: To go to the moon? 36,000 To create Lion King? 800 To create Toy Story?110 To create the computer game Spore? 180 To develop a new medicine?100

Let’s Make 4 Teams (2-3 members per team) Each team member will take turns keyboarding and building. The others will help by sharing ideas. The Duck Team

Anna, Jacob and John

Set up your work folders. documents Desktop your name yourname-lab-book.ppt yourname-web-page.html C: or Hard Drive images cat.jpg ball.gif song.wav movie.wmv Never leave your files on the desktop. Files left on the desktop will get deleted.

File Structure File Names 1)Use long descriptive names like school-date-name-description.html 2)Use lower case text. 3)Use “-” between words. Do not use “_” or “ “ Good: biy-hot-shot.html => biy-hot-shot.html Bad:biy_hot_shot.html => biy_hot_shot.html Bad:biy hot shot.html => biy hot shot.html

Set up your Lab Book Download your lab book template. 1)Go to the Web site: 2)Click on Go next to ‘Projectware’ 3)Click on ‘Presentations’ 4)Double click on ‘Lab Book Template’ Save your lab book. If your lab book is not open, go to your desktop and double click on biy-lab-book-template.ppt to open it. 1)Click on File / Save As. 2)Create a new folder in My Documents titled your team’s names, jim-jane-john. 3)Name your lab book, biy-lab-book-jim-jane-john.ppt. 4)Click on Save.

Describe the problem. Seth and John Describe your mission.