Level 2 Robotics
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr R. Pattinson.
Level 2 Robotics
The largest single technological development of the late 20th/early 21st Century is the introduction of robotics and smart devices. Their use in our everyday lives has and will continue to revolutionise our lives. Programming and understanding how to code micro-chips to solve real world problems is a highly sort after skill, and one of the most demanding for employers to fill in most technological areas.
This course is open to akonga progressing from 11MKS or by applying to Mr Pattinson HOD Robotics.
The course will appeal to students who enjoy the challenge of problem solving, are computer literate, and also like making things.
Career aspirations are in the fields of electrical engineering, robotics, software engineering.
This course is project based and in level 2 requires students to skillfully and efficiently implement advanced techniques to construct and test functional robotic systems and write and debug software for a specified electronic system, such as a walking quadrabot. The theory will be taught in the context of solving the problem(s).
The nature of the problem-solving activity will require experimentation and application and testing of ideas. Resilience and the ability to solve technical issues will be key features of the course.
Entry Criteria
Students who did not take 11MKS can apply to Mr Pattinson for entry into the Robotics Level 2 course.
Students must be able to prove competence in coding and some experience of using an Arduino control chip or similar device.
This is a limited entry course.
Limited Entry Courses: While Westlake endevours to provide all students with their first choices, in some courses there are limits for specialist staffing and/or rooming and equipment reasons. When student numbers exceed these limits students places will be determined by ballot. When students have selected more than one limited entry course, we will aim to place students in at least one of these courses. Students who have taken the subject in the previous year will have priority entry.
Equipment/Stationery and Course Costs
This course makes significant use of digital learning material at various times during the year. It is advantageous for a student to have a laptop during these times. Some learning activities, including assessments, will not be able to be completed without a laptop.
This course will incur a fee to cover project materials.
Pathway
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Generic Technology 2.1 - Undertake brief development to address an issue
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Generic Technology 2.4 - Undertake effective development to make and trial a prototype
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Generic Technology 2.5 - Demonstrate understanding of how technological modelling supports risk management
NZQA Info
Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 2.5 - Use advanced techniques to develop an electronics outcome
Disclaimer
Course selection does not guarantee a course will be available or that you have approval to take a course. Final course confirmation is in January and depends on your final results and in rare cases, staff availability.