MET Inside 2018

Virtual Online TTL Meeting from Italy, June 2021

https://padlet.com/turismoisisvaldarno/y8jwft2f6frs0ibi

Virtual Meeting may 2021

Hosted by Portugal “Innovative STEM teaching methods week” https://padlet.com/embed/a0vwt2kqipwx11dz

Virtual Exchange Meeting in Turkey

26 to 30 April 2021 https://padlet.com/embed/w98evdmpvt5fk1tj

Parts required

For this example you’ll need the following components:

1x Microphone sound sensor

Arduino UNO – read Best Arduino Starter Kits

1x Breadboard

1x LED

1x 220 Ohm resistor

Jumper wires

KY-038 sensor in configuration with Arduino Uno board

The microphone sound sensor, as the name says, detects sound. It gives a measurement of how loud a sound is.

There are a wide variety of these sensors.

We used the KY-038  microphone sound sensor.

Most sensor modules have a built-in potentiometer to adjust the sensitivity of the digital output pin.

Wiring your sensor to the Arduino is pretty straightforward:

Pin Wiring to Arduino A0 Analog pins D0 Digital pins GND GND VCC 5V

KY-38 Data Sheet

In our experiment the sensor should trigger a led to be lighened when a given threshold value is reached.

“Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read inputs – light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message – and turn it into an output – activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online.”  You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board. To do so you use the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring), and the Arduino Software (IDE), based on Processing.Over the years Arduino has been the brain of thousands of projects, from everyday objects to complex scientific instruments. A worldwide community of makers – students, hobbyists, artists, programmers, and professionals – has gathered around this open-source platform, their contributions have added up to an incredible amount of accessible knowledge that can be of great help to novices and experts alike.”

Reference: https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/karimmufte/arduino-sound-sensor-module-sound-sensor-with-arduino-code-868d55

ISIS Valdarno was naturally present with its own stand. In the square the competition fields used in the Robocup Junior Academy Educational Robotic Championships were hosted by our school last April.

But even the small students of the Nursery School of nearby towns were present and explained to curious families how robotics can be approached even at an early age.

Great satisfaction was expresseed by the School Director of ISIS Valdarno, Lorenzo Pierazzi, for the results obtained.

As the headmaster pointed out, the event saw a great deal of participation from families from all over the Valdarno area, demonstrating that robotics is becoming an increasingly appreciated educational path that can find many areas of application in the world of work. I

SIS Valdarno is currently the leader of the “Robotoscana”, the regional network of institutes and universities that promotes the creation of training courses in the field of robotics through projects and initiatives.

      The involvement of the whole school was important. The students of the Tourism Course in fact took care of the reception and provided the necessary information to the various participants of the event, the mascot of the ADA national championships created by the students of the fashion design courses paraded between the stands and participated in the final awarding ceremony, entertaining all the children present.

The work of Prof. Carla Scarpelli, Prof. Luca Africh and Prof. Giovanni Fabbri has allowed us to coordinate all the technicians and teaching staff of ISIS Valdarno by achieving this success.

Also present during the event was the Mayor of San Giovanni Valdarno, Valentina Vadi, who brought greetings from the City council and stressed the importance of events like this in a review of events that aims to liven up the historic center of the city.

MET INSIDE Project’s 3rd Meeting held in Poland.Zespol Szkol w Zychlinie was the host school of this event.The 3rd Meeting had lots of challenges again as regards to MET INSIDE tasks.The students in each country presented their videos they prepared before about their E-stem related activities like “Save the Marine Life” ,” The House of Mother Nature” and robotic activities like “Pianist Robot with Ev3”, “Building Drawbridges with Ev3” and “Projectile Launcher with Ev3”. Except from these activities,we also visited Lodz Univertisity to make students have deeper knowledge in Arduino.

  During the meeting, works were presented by groups in their schools, for example robots made with Mindstorm lego kits for the construction of an elevator or lift for the disabled, a self-sufficient ecological home with zero impact and various ideas and solutions to clean up the sea from waste.  

  The ideas were sketched on paper by the students in the classroom and then transformed into virtual objects designed in three dimensions.  

  The best ideas among our boys were those for a house that produces food with a roof garden and electricity through panels, wind turbines and floats that take advantage of the wave motion if the house is near the sea and boats with or without crew for clean up the sea. Crewed boats are floating houses where volunteers would live for a few weeks while cleaning up stretches of sea.

  Participation to the ERASMUS + “Met Inside” meeting – Lithuania from September 29 to October 5

We all went to Lithuania to meet colleagues from the other participating countries, for a final assessment of what has already been done so far and a planning session of the next works.

Also, during the week there were training seminars for the teachers themselves.

the groups flew to Riga or Vilnius from the respective countries on Sunday 29. On Monday 30 September we had the Meeting with colleagues and work sessions on the use of “Arduino” and 3D printers in the teaching of the various subject matters.

All this was highlighted, in particular, by the fact that high-tech tools and robotics in general can constitute very valid teaching aids not only for scientific subjects.

During the meetings and the various debates with foreign colleagues, didactic activities for our students were planned in detail.

  The jobs that our students are required to prepare and illustrate during the next meeting to be held in Madrid from 15 to 22 March 2020, are particularly suited to developing transversal skills such as: -problem solving, group work skills and collaboration, ability to listen and adapt, leadership skills.

During the second Staff meeting we reviewed and evaluated the work done so far by drawing on the various platforms, mainly from “Etwinning”, but also from Instagram and Facebook.

In each group there was a teacher of science subjects (chemistry, physics, sciences) who was asked to design and build a simple object using a 3D printer that could be used in an experiment for a topic of a normal lesson. The Turkish group built two cylinders of the same size, one of which was sharp at one end to demonstrate the inverse proportionality of the pressure on the surface on which a force is applied. The projects carried out by the Italian team regarded the experiment concerning the Pascal Principle and the principle of Archimedes through the “Cartesian Devil”, and on the experimental calculation of the pendulum acceleration, and finally on the Friction Force based on position.

During the week there were various training events including workshops on the use of the TinkerCad program for three-dimensional design in combination with the 3 D printers. Another particularly interesting workshop was offered to us by an external consultant on the use of Lego Kits for the planning of lessons in the field of the development of emotional intelligence.

During the week we also paid a visit to an important manufacturing company operating in the office furnishing sector that uses fully automated systems.

Last night we enjoyed an excellent dinner kindly offered by the Lithuanian school where the headmistress delivered the certificates and a kind gift of local products.

  Here is the address of our online magazine

Online magazine for Met Inside Italy

The magazine is updated monthly or when there is an important event in our project.

Piano Playing robot with Mindstorm EV3 from ISIS Valdarno

Students of ISIS Severi realized a robot that can be applied to a piano keyboard to play on the keys.

The robot is equipped with robotic fingers that can presso on the keys in a sequence that is programmed in the brick, or controller.

  This robot is capable of controlling six different keys in sequence.

Ideally it could be coupled with another mechanism that moves the assembly horizontally…

We started from drawings and plans made on a sheet of paper with a simple pencil and then transformed the sketched in virtual buildings

Our first house has solar panels and and wind turbines. Rain water is collected in a tank that is also a pool and it has a garden on the roof that helps keep it warm in winter and cool in summer.

  Its big windows use the greenhouse effect to warm the ambient a little bit. Part of the electric power is converted in heat in winter and air conditioning in the summer.

For our second house, we have imagined a tower made of solar panels and turbines. The tower generates far more power that the house needs so that part of the energy is sold to the electric company.

Moreover a system of floaters help collect the energy of waves and transform it into electric power.

  The Vertical Turbines are orientated by the wind itself while the horizzontal one is always ready to turn even in a weak wind.

The large tower on the top is served by a stair and is capable of producing 5kw of electric power on a sunny day. The special shape assures that a sufficient quantity of panels is facing the sun at any moment during the day. At night the energy is obtained by floaters that capture the energy of waves and tides.

1. Save The Marine Life Seawater cleaning vehicles designed by students and realized in a virtual world environment

  2. Erasmus+ K229 MultilateralErasmus+ K229 Multilateral Partnership ProjectPartnership Project “Met Inside” Mathematics, Engineering and TechnologyMathematics, Engineering and Technology ISISValdarno SanGiovanniValdarno Tuscany Italy Officialschoolwebsite

3. 3d design and modelling inside virtual worlds For this work we chose to use virtual reality. We explored the virtual world created by our agency for research and innovation in education “Indire” in Florence. This world is called Edmondo and is open to teachers and students. It is a safe environment to create in three dimension and build structures and machines that can be visited from the inside and programmed.

4. We fixe our ideas in our sketches first The solutions we found are many and different. We thought of boats that tow or push nets for collecting plastic or of big pipes that are driven by computers to remove the plastic from the Oceans

5. Everyone of us drew his or her own machine With our teacher we planned a few machines that can be used to clean the ocean. These machines are either driven by humans or they are automatic

6. We thought of a number of solutions We designed and planned a few solutions for boats that clean the ocean. We fixed our ideas on paper and then transformed the sketches inside a virtual world where we built and animated them

7. From our drawings to 3d modelling

8. Boats with nets to collect garbage

9. Water cleaning houseboats

10. We built our products in virtual reality “The phrase “virtual reality” often conjures images of gamers sitting in front of a screen. But this technology has hundreds of practical applications beyond entertainment, and it’s particularly useful for STEM students of all backgrounds and disciplines. Indeed, VR is already changing our world and increasing our aptitude for diagnosing and treating disease.”

11. A fleet of robotic boats that clean the ocean

12. Virtual reality can save time and money Technologies like AR and VR may seem new, but in fact, they’ve been around for decades. Medical professionals and engineers alike have used VR since at least the 1990s. Why send astronauts on risky expeditions in space when free apps like Titans of Space allow students to explore the solar system? Why cut open a cadaver when students can “walk around” inside the human body with Anatomy?

13. The boats are powered by solar panels

14. The great potential of VR in education “Engineering – Aeroplane and car manufacturers, including Boeing, Peugeot and Ford, already have virtual reality centres where they design and test prototypes. Mathematics – VR also provides the ultimate space for creativity and innovation, allowing maths students to bend the laws of physics to create ‘non-Euclidean’ virtual worlds. “

15. Innovative learning processes “There are a lot of great reasons to use Robot Virtual Worlds, a simulation environment that enables students to learn programming, even if they don’t have direct access to a physical robot. Robot Virtual Worlds helps you. Transferring the lessons of gaming to educational applications produces the immediate benefit that the students can fully engage in the virtual world and learn their lessons there “

16. Stem through Virtual Worlds “VR can be applied to most learning and is particularly appropriate for teaching STEM subjects or training people for engineering work. Students can for example work on a virtual aero engine without the need to have a real one. Training for work uses the same approach: to create virtual environments where people can experience dangerous and hazardous activities, without any risk to themselves or others. “

17. Our start up business for ocean cleaning

18. Another idea we had was to create a business for renting houseboats that clean the water. Customer would pay just a small fee to have a holiday on our houseboats but they would clean the water of the plastic in return. The houseboats would provide comfortable accommodation and be provided of nets that remove the garbage.

19. Cleaning the Ocean and having a holiday With a fleet of these houseboats constantly on duty we could clean vast areas of seas, lakes and ocean in a very short time. The staff would cost nothing as it would be composed of holidaymakers.

20. Every housboats can accommodate up to 4 people

21. They are fully furnished

22. A big net on the front is lowered in the water

23. The first profits would be reinvested in the fleet to build new houseboats and grow up

24. The plastic materials would be sold too

25. Reference https://www.studyinternational.com/news/how-virtual-reality-technologies-are-revolutionising-stem-learning/ https://www.information-age.com/virtual-worlds-teaching-better-lessons-123466625/ http://techmas.com/services/boats-cleaning-water-surfaces-of-sea-harbours-marinas-and-intern-waters-recovering-h

26.  “The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi­ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Our presentation

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/9huYp58Vq4jUhI

Stasys Salkauskis Gymnasium’s EV3 and Stem works

    Works realized by the Lithuanian team for the Poland meeting of our project.

“On 14th May Lithuanians were organizing a national forum “STEAM is our PIN code” for teachers, administrative staff and students. More than 50 teachers from all the Republic took part. During it we shared our good practices with our project: students were showing NASA challenges, working with Arduino. Daiva and…

Stasys Salkauskis Gymnasium’s EV3 and Stem works

    Works realized by the Lithuanian team for the Poland meeting of our project.

“On 14th May Lithuanians were organizing a national forum “STEAM is our PIN code” for teachers, administrative staff and students. More than 50 teachers from all the Republic took part. During it we shared our good practices with our project: students were showing NASA challenges, working with Arduino. Daiva and…

Elevator with EV3 Mindstorm from Turkey

Nazike Ulubay 12 May at 22:15

We have designed an elevator. The purpose of this elevator like the escalator. It’s a great thing for them 😊

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Hey Friends! We also designed a escalator last week. We have done this activity to help people with disabilities. I think it was a very nice and thoughtful attitude.

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    Video This escalator provide convenience to…

This catapult can launch light plastic balls at various distances according to the program inserted in the brick

We have built the main frame first, and then we have parepared the mechanism and the ball holder. All the assembly has to be lightweight to work well

The main frame is assembled around a motor

Then we added the gear mechanism

In our Mindstorm EV3 Lab we assemble various kits every time. We have a number of teams that work on these projects and that take part in competitions every year.

Robocup Junior Academy 2019 Educational Robotics National Championships at ISIS Valdarno · starting from Thursday, 11 April 2019

A great number of students, teachers and parents from all over Italy has invaded the Province of Arezzo. San Giovanni Valdarno from a city of art has become the city of the future, becoming the Italian capital of educational robotics. ISIS Valdarno welcomed more than a thousand people on Wednesday 10 April to compete in the "Robocup Junior Academy" 2019 national educational robotics…

The meeting has been Rich in events and activities such as Lego Ev3 space challenge demonstrations, Arduino uno programming sessions and engineering modelling. Representatives of local authorities from the town hall and province have been present and have met all the partecipants.

  The five days of the meeting have been intense and full with visits to a local mineral water factory, local museums, historical centers, thermal resorts and school, sports facilities.

The headmaster of the school has personally met and welcomed the delegations from the 5 guest schools. He has kindly handed formal written invitations for the final ceremony of certificate distribution that has taken place on thursday, 4th April. On Friday 5  the groups that were willing to do so where accompanied to the capital Istanbul by the host school teachers and coordinator of the project. Students and teachers were shown around the most prominent monuments and historical sites of Istanbul. The visit was very interesting and important from any point of view.

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The last day of the meeting, that is 6 of April, was dedicated to travels back the participants’ countries.

Certainly all the students and teachers taking part in the event will keep wonderful Memories this event.

The students and teachers were also able to learn a lot about Maths, Science and Technology taught with the aid of robotics and microcontrollers as it was the core of all school activities as well as have a chance to improve their practical command of the english language that was necessary to communicate among participants.

During the workshops of 2 April the groups successfully prepared Lego Ev3 kit robots that acted as a tourist guides. The robots were capable of moving and at the same time, to relate about the town home to the school that made it.

Right after that, the teams were asked to program an Arduino uno microcontroller that would turn on LED lights every time an object was placed at a distance of 20, 25 cm from its ultrasonic sensor.

Later, all the teams were busy building a bridge made of wooden sticks and glue capable of supporting considerable weights without breaking up. All the bridges were tested one by one and all proved to be in working conditions and successfully made.

Next step was the space challenge, where all the teams present were asked to program robots that would perform some if not all the tasks included in the space challenge kit by Lego. So all the teams, one after another, put the robots at work and made them perform some tasks, the most common consisting in rescuing an astronaut or opening a satellite antenna dish.

    Afyon looks like a quiet typical Turkish town of the interior where traditions are cherished and followed. The the facility hosting all the groups was a facility  reserved for school personnel and for helping tourism in the area. This means that all participants could get a clear impression of all the characters of the country as they can be found in towns like Afyon that are far from the main tourist destinations and so more real and truer to the spirit of the population.