1. VEX IQ Curriculum Highrise Challenge Lesson 08 Lesson Materials:
Lesson Student Handout
Challenge rules and game documentation
Robot Challenge Evaluation Rubric Idea Book Page(s) OR Robotics Engineering Notebook Pencils or pens
VEX IQ Robot Brain, Controller, and kit hardware Highrise Field & Game Elements (or equivalent for alternate game challenge)
VEX IQ Challenge Full Field Perimeter & Tiles (or equivalent) Internet access for website use – optional Additional paper – optional
Highrise Challenge
Lesson 08

2. Project Overview Its Your Future Let’s Get Started Your First Robot
Simple Machines & Motion
Chain Reaction Challenge
Key Concepts
Mechanisms
Highrise Challenge
Smart Machines
Chain Reaction Programming Challenge
Smarter Machines
Highrise Programming Challenge

3. HIGH RISE CHALLENGE
Whether you’re going to attend an official VEX IQ Challenge Event, host your own event, or just play the game in your classroom, it’s time to design and build a robot for a full tele-operated robotics game challenge! Use your knowledge of the VEX IQ platform and all you’ve learned in previous lessons to create a VEX IQ robot for the Teamwork Challenge and/ or the Robot Skills Challenge portion of the Highrise game!
Lesson Purpose:
The purpose of this lesson is for students to design and build a challenge- ready tele-operated robot for the Highrise Challenge (or similar tele-operated challenge designed by the teacher).

4. LESSON 08 STARTER Prints out for the lesson Student hand-out
Idea Book Exercise
Teacher US guide sheet
Challenge Rubric

5. LESSON 08 Lesson Vocabulary: Engineering Notebook Control System
Electrical System
Mechanical System

6. LESSON 08 STARTER Important Notes
- Your teacher will need to obtain the Highrise Field & Game Elements and VEX IQ Challenge Field for this unit OR obtain just the Highrise & Game Elements and create a similar field from easy to obtain items.
- Alternatively, your teacher could also get creative and design a game of his or her own for you to design and build for.
Idea Book Page: The Engineering Notebook
You are provided with an Idea Book page in this unit that can be used to develop a full Engineering Notebook. Use as many of these pages as you need to document your robot ideas, build, fixes, changes, and improvements for the game challenge. Alternatively, teachers and students are encouraged, when comfortable, to use the Robotics Engineering Notebook (provided to registered VEX IQ Challenge teams and also sold separately) for this purpose instead.
Robot Challenge Evaluation Rubric This rubric can be used to assess your challenge robot in up to eleven technical and non- technical categories. No matter how your teacher chooses to use the rubric, it will be obvious that your PROCESS and your PRODUCT (robot) are equally important.
Learning Objectives:
Students will utilize design process. Students will document design. Students will be able to troubleshoot and solve problems to improve design. Students will participate in the Highrise (or similar) Challenge

7. HIGHRISE CHALLENGE
Learning objective: Utilise the design process. Document your design. Be able to troubleshoot and solve problems to improve design. Participate in the High Rise (or similar) Challenge.
The Game Rules
All of the rules for playing the game and other important information can be found at the Highrise Challenge page:
You are going to complete a brainstorming activity with student teams (large group or small) to generate ideas on how to best play the game (strategy) and what kind of robot can achieve a set of desired goals.
Use Idea Book pages or Engineering Notebook during this process.
Then sketch out your robot design ideas again using your Idea book or Engineering Notebook.

8. HIGHRISE CHALLENGE
In your teams design, build, and test your tele-operated robot for the given challenge using the “THINK-DO-TEST” approach to completing their Idea Book pages or Engineering Notebook entries all while building within the constrains of the challenge rules.
Use the Robot Challenge Evaluation Rubric as a vehicle for improvement during the process and/or to assess final designs.

9. LESSON 08 PLENARY
As a class, let us consider the following questions? A. How did you go about designing your robot?
B. What type of mechanisms did you use?
C. What problems did you encounter? D. How did you overcome your problems?

10. SUMMARY Today you have: Learnt how to design in teams.
Learning objective: Utilise the design process. Document your design. Be able to troubleshoot and solve problems to improve design. Participate in the Highrise (or similar) Challenge
Today you have:
Learnt how to design in teams.
Learnt how to apply your knowledge of mechanisms
Attempted the Highrise challenge.