Day 4: Final Point Totals
| Teams | Point Total |
| Team 8 - Time Lords | 120 |
| Team 6 - #TeamRoyalty | 118 |
| Team 2 - Big Kats | 107 |
| Team 5 - MVP | 102 |
| Team 7 - Fire Cobras | 102 |
| Team 1 - Silent Sloths | 101 |
| Team 3 - Blue Titans | 100 |
| Team 4 - CyberNerds | 43 |
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Day 4: Final Point Totals
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Total Points Distribution at the End of Day 4
The total point distribution for the end of Day4 includes Boe-bot Challenges 1, 2, and 3 as well as the current point totals for the Cryptographic Treasure Hunt. Remember, there are still plenty of points available!
TechnoCircuits: 82
Geek Squad: 80
Knowledge: 71
Geek Squad: 80
Knowledge: 71
Mad Dogs: 64
Cajun Coders: 61
Cajun Coders: 61
Master Minds: 61
Sonic: 54
The Burning Matrices: 36
Silent but Deadly: 36
Day 4: Robotics Challenge # 3
Robotics Challenge #3: Avoid the Road Blocks!
In today's challenge, campers utilized information from the morning's lesson and infrared technology to navigate a series of roadblacks. Volunteer judge Varner Rencher of CenturyLink presided over today's challenge. Team Geek Squad was the challenge winner.
Day 4: Guest Speaker Penny Earnst Discusses the Benefits of a STEM Career
Guest Speaker: Penny Earnst of Dow Chemical Discusses the Benefits of a STEM Career
The camp was treated to a special talk during the lunch session as Penny Earnst addressed the group concerning the benefits of a STEM learning and how it directly relates to viable careers at Dow.
Dow is committed to encouraging the youth to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and currently employs multiple interns from programs like Louisiana Delta Community College's Process Technology program.
Dow's storied history, global reach, and socially responsible commitments illustrate a stable company committed to positive change locally and abroad.
Day 4: The Arguments For and Against Technology
Liberal Arts: Debating the Positive and Negative Impacts of Technology
In a thought provoking discussion, West Monroe High School English instructor Ashlee Bell encouraged campers to think about the impacts of technology, both good and bad, on society.
Debate revolved around key questions including: How much technology is too much? Is technology like Google increasing the overall intelligence of our world or is that same technology not allowing us to utilize our brains to solve problems on our own? What would the world be like if computers did not exist and could we adapt if tomorrow they disappeared?
Day 4: Robotics Navigation with Infared LEDs
Robotics Class: Using Infrared Headlights to "See" the Road
Today's hottest products seem to have one thing in common:
wireless communication. Personal organizers beam data into desktop computers, and
wireless remotes let us channel surf. Many remote controls and PDA’s use signals in
the infrared frequency range to communicate, below the visible light spectrum. With
a few inexpensive and widely available parts, the BASIC Stamp can also receive and
transmit infrared light signals.
Infrared: Infra means below, so Infra-red is light (or
electromagnetic radiation) that has lower frequency, or longer wavelength than red
light. Students were instructed to use infrared light to illuminate the robot’s path and determine when the light reflects off an
object.
The infrared object detection system we’ll build on the
Boe-Bot is like a car’s headlights in several respects. When the light from a car’s headlights
reflects off obstacles, your eyes detect the obstacles and your brain processes them and
makes your body guide the car accordingly. The Boe-Bot uses infrared LEDs for
headlights. They emit infrared, and in some cases, the infrared reflects
off objects and bounces back in the direction of the Boe-Bot. The eyes of the Boe-Bot are
the infrared detectors. The infrared detectors send signals indicating whether or not
they detect infrared reflected off an object. The brain of the Boe-Bot, the BASIC Stamp, makes
decisions and operates the servo motors based on this sensor input.
The IR detectors have built-in optical filters that allow
very little light except the 980 nm infrared that we want to detect with its internal photodiode
sensor. The infrared detector also has an electronic filter that only allows signals
around 38.5 kHz to pass through. In other words, the detector is only looking for infrared
that’s flashing on and off 38,500 times per second. This prevents IR interference from common
sources such as sunlight and indoor lighting. Sunlight is DC interference (0 Hz), and
indoor lighting tends to flash on and off at either 100 or 120 Hz, depending on the main
power source in the region. Since 120 Hz is outside the electronic filter’s 38.5 kHz
band pass frequency, it is completely ignored by the IR detectors.
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