{"id":1607,"date":"2020-12-14T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:43:46","slug":"interviews-high-school-design-your-own-covid-social-distance-robot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"Interviews \u2013 High School \u2013 Design Your Own COVID Social Distance Robot Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s what high school students said about their COVID social distancing robots. Analysis to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boy 1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I think you talked a little bit about it in the research slide but could you say how you choose a particular design or maybe in a little more detail or say more about that?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main reason I chose that design was because I thought it was kind of cool having a tracked vehicle. I also wanted to build a few different things like gearing it up on &#8211; which I knew I could do with tank tracks. Like I said it had to be able to move in different directions and rotating a place would be very helpful again tank tracks would have been great. That rotating turret component I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s even necessary but I decided to challenge myself and it worked out great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>OK thank you and I did this make you think or feel about COVID any differently or get new insights into COVID?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>OK and what was it like to do this project?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike most of the school projects I found it pretty interesting and fun. For once, we actually got to use our creativity without too many like constraints to be able to do a school project. Yeah, I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Boy 2 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Could you talk a little bit about choosing to particular design you chose? Like what you were thinking?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was just thinking in general like world what would be a nice robot or nice design that could help out and wouldn&#8217;t be too complex where I would get in the way but at the same time carry out its task. So, I just thought of the ideas of almost trying to make a tank at first. But I didn&#8217;t know I was going to carry it out so I just stuck with the widebody kit. It was very minimalized so it was low to the ground but still effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All right. Did this make you think about COVID any differently? How you think or feel about COVID?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It just really made me think of a social distancing and how important it is to social distance. 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