The Beginners Interview
The Beginners…What a team! Your team looks passionate, full of energy, taking great initiatives, adventurous, fun and ambitious: congratulations, we like it!
Therefore we would like to make an interview of your team. Ready to go on?
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5. Had the NAO Challenge any great impacts on your students, your school, your lessons, your vision of robotics, or anything else?
[Carla] Surely this school year has been permeated by the presence of the Nao: posters relevant to the Challenge organized by Aldebaran are hanging everywhere in the school; we draw some comic balloons, which change periodically, on the posters so that it seems that the Nao speaks to those (students, professors or parents) who are walking along the school corridors. Let’s say, we are changing the way to approach it: it’s becoming a kind of “he” not “it”. In any case, Fermi High School, has already demonstrated much interest in robotics participating for four years in the competition Zerorobotics organized by MIT of Boston and NASA, winning twice the European competition. Knowing that the “space sky spheres” have created a deep and strong interest in our students, we have certainly found a fertile ground with the proposal of the Nao Challenge. And to tell you the truth, we have already taken steps in order to draw up a project, which is already named "Baby - Goldrake", whose main aim is that of introducing robotics in the Paediatric Hospital.
The idea is that of programming the Nao so that he can become a distraction/entertainment for sick children, to release tension before an invasive operation or to make the Nao perform repetitive exercises simply to entertain children playing with him. The head of the Informatics Systems and Innovative Technologies of the "Department of Woman and Child Health of the University - Hospital of Padua", together with paediatricians, neonatologists and engineers of Padua University, will help us in developing this project during the next school year. Obviously, there will be more teams formed by students who are interested in the Nao Challenge 2016 and those who are interested in the "Baby - Goldrake" project. That’s why we think that a well equipped Laboratory of Robotics could be a magnet for all those students who are interested in programming. Moreover, you don’t have to forget that afternoon work done side by side between teachers and students strengthens and motivates the existence of group itself. Then, it allows the teacher to learn and grow together with his students. The method we are following is the Finnish one, which nowadays is considered to be in the forefront.
6. How did you organize the team, your time & the work?
[Michele] As already said by our team – leader, we have arranged meetings in the afternoon, all Wednesday afternoons. And then part of the work has been carried out by each of us at home and then we inform the other members of the team about our progress during information-sharing meetings. The coach of Team Eve, our teacher of Physics, Alvise Moretti, in order to make us understand the importance of collaboration told us about the experience of knowledge sharing between the two teams during America's Cup, the Italian Luna Rossa and the New Zealand Team. The collaboration agreement included the total access to the design and performance data of Emirates Team New Zealand. The hulls of the Luna Rossa AC 72 were built in Italy but all other components were built in New Zealand in close collaboration with Emirates Team New Zealand. Therefore we think that sharing information is a point of strength of our team. For this reason, to be always updated and to know what’s going on we have created a whatsapp group with our coach, a chat in facebook and we regularly exchange e-mails or we communicate through I groups of google+ .... ,as you can imagine, it’s a full-time activity!
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