Potential Activities for October 30

Students build and program a robot can explore the deck of a sunken pirate ship in a simulated underwater experience. The ship has rolled on its side on the sea bottom. See if your robot can move on the angled terrain and find the treasure onboard. 

• SCORING SHEET (Coming Soon)

Students should create their robots and program them in advance 

William Kidd's pirate ship has recently been discovered lying on the seafloor off the East coast of Africa, in dangerous waters. Students need to devise a way of raising the ship by adjusting the buoyancy of a cartesian diver, using materials provided by ZFS. 

• SCORING SHEET (Coming Soon)

Students do not need to prepare in advance 

Students make a model sailboat using materials provided by ZFS that can cross the pool only using wind power, from a leafblower. Design your sails and learn the physics of sailing.

Students do not need to prepare in advance

For this icebreaker activity, students will need to work together in teams to decipher the messages in the pirate's diary and read the map to uncover the pirate's long lost treasure

Students do not need to prepare in advance 

Create an image or dynamic animation of a pirate ship getting destroyed (by weather, monsters, other pirates, etc.) using mathematical equations on the DESMOS online graphing calculator

• Please check out these short videos if you need help getting started with DESMOS  

1. Sine waves & Inequalities

2. Circles & Parabolas

3. Colors, Images, Folders

• SCORING SHEET 

Students should complete and submit their creations one week prior (23 Oct) to the event, or earlier

• The activities listed are contingent upon availability and cost effectiveness of resources
• In the event an activity becomes unfeasible, it will be replaced by another on-theme activity
• Here is the anticipated schedule for 30 October (Coming Soon); it may change due to unforeseen circumstances