Year 9 - Digital Technologies: Robotics
Year 9 - Digital Technologies: Robotics
OverviewThe VEX Robotics Course provides students with exciting, open-ended robotics and research project challenges that enhance their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) skills through hands-on, student-centred learning. There is a large emphasis in this elective on collaboration and problem solving, rather than oppositional competition. Students will design, build and program robots in collaborative teams in order to complete a series of engineering or systems-based challenges. Students will learn to program a range of functions using a progression from block-based programming through to Python.
| Units / Topics | Types of Assessment |
|---|---|
| Programming in a virtual environment | Programming and constructing for movement |
| Use and programming of sensors | Programming and constructing for sensing |
| Computer programming for axis of motion | Programming and constructing for materials handling |
| The programming solutions to tasks arising from the Gameplay element based on the Vex IQ Challenge | Solutions to the Vex IQ 2025 Design challenge |
Future Directions
Satisfactory completion of this subject will provide a sound foundation for students to proceed to Year 10 Digital Technology options.