TWPS Newsletter

These write-ups appeared in the Toongabbie West Public School Newsletter Term 3 Week 1 on the 14 July 2015.

Principal, Mr Firth

I would like to give a large thank you to Mr Stanley who gave his time and energy to provide the opportunity to give students the chance to learn more about robots, how they work and how we can make them move. Mr Stanley had to purchase the kits he used and the course costs went to pay for these. Thankyou Mr Stanley for providing the opportunity for our students to get involved.

Librarian, Mrs Sant

During the first week of the recent school holiday, a number of robots attended a robot obedience school which was held in the Toongabbie West Public School Hall. Each robot followed a set of instructions which was given to it by trainee computer programmers. The trainee computer programmers used Lego Mindstorms graphical software to train their robots. Robot programming was taught from scratch over four 3 hour lessons. The students used computers to program a Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robot.

The group of trainee computer programmers was made up of students from our school and other local schools. All the boys were thrilled and would like to thank Dr Stanley for delivering the program. Dr Stanley kindly conducted the course during the holiday from his own workplace. Mrs Sant was disappointed that she was the only girl there and hopes that if Dr Stanley runs the program again more girls will attend.