Name of school ENERGETIC HIGHSCHOOL TARGU-JIU
ARDUINO GAME PROJECT
PARKING SENSOR
ARDUINO PROGRAMMED PIANO
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Course summary
In the course, secondary school students learn the basics of the ARDUINO program - an open-source company that produces both development plates based on microcontrollers and the software part intended for the operation and programming of plates.
Course facts in brief
Time: 3 meetings x 120 minutes
Number of pupils: 30
Number of supervisors: 5
Number of groups: 3
Age of pupils: 13+
Prerequisites for students: only 8th grade students
Prerequisites for supervisors: electronics and automation teachers specialized in ARDUINO software
Introduction
Background
Society's and business's need for people with technical knowledge is increasing, at the same time as the interest in applying for technical education is decreasing or at least not increasing to a sufficient extent. Something should therefore be done so that more young people will choose technical both vocational and pre-school education in upper secondary school.
Purpose
The purpose of these lessons is to allow younger students in primary school to come into contact with interesting technology they have not worked with before, while they are supervised by older students who go to high school technical education. The older students become a bit of role models and can then more easily with their youthful enthusiasm transfer their interest in and attitude to technology to the younger students.
Method
Younger students are given the task of solving a technical problem, for example to program a musical piano, a parking sensor or an LCD Display
To achieve this, older students at our high school must teach and supervise younger students, from elementary school, in current technology.
Contact between younger and older students around concrete tasks can create conditions for both arousing and increasing interest in technology
ARDUINO PROGRAMMED PIANO
A simple Arduino based piano with 7 musical notes and potentiometer to adjust the volume.
It has the following components:
-Buttons
-Potentiometer
-220Ω Resisor
ARDUINO GAME PROJECT
A practically infinite Arduino game which involves jumping over obstacles to reach a higher score.
It has the following components:
-Button
-Potentiometer
-LCD display
-220Ω Resistors
PARKING SENSOR
A car parking sensor which alerts the driver of any nearby objects.
-Distance sensor
-RGB LED
-Potentiometer
-Buzzer
-Laser
Preparations in high school
The high school students attended theoretical and practical courses on electronics and the use of information technologies included in the educational programs over 100 hours annually.
During the practical training classes they learned to program the Arduino pads.
The steps taken to carry out the projects were:
Before starting the activities, the students of our school selected the components of the projects (Arduino kit, connection cables, breadboard (the plate on which all the components are connected) potentiometer with multifunctional role (volume adjustment, brightness, etc.)
For the realization of the connection schemes, the website was used https://www.tinkercad.com/circuits
The connections were made according to the connection schemes and the codes for the Arduino board were installed on the Arduino board.
The operation was then checked for any errors.
Preparations in primary school
10 students of the secondary school went to our school in 3 days accompanied by a teacher. At our school they carried out practical activities guided by a group of 5 students from our high school
Implementation
During each activity lasting about 120 minutes, the students of the secondary school were trained by the high school students, they were presented with theoretical notions and the advantages of using Arduino, they were presented with the components that will be used to carry out the project, the connections were demonstratively made and the functioning was checked.
Secondary school students were encouraged to perform small operations for measuring electrical sizes, connecting in an electronic circuit some components
Permanently the activities were supervised and coordinated by 2-3 engineering teachers.
Evaluation
The last 15 minutes of each meeting are reserved for feedback and evaluation
Evaluation is ensured by assigning small practical tasks to secondary school students and tracking their resolution by high school students.
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