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Bee-Bots and Pro-Bots were the featured tools in the Community in Schools Introductory Robotics course this summer at Akin Elementary School in Hale Center, TX. Teacher Lester Carr, author of Problem-Solving with Bee-Bot, welcomed students from grades 1 - 8 to the over-subscribed month-long course.

Students in grades 1-4 used Bee-Bot, with younger students solving Problem-Solving with Bee-Bot Level 1 challenges and older students starting out with Level 2. Students in grades 5-8 learned to calculate angles and develop complex paths with Pro-Bot and the Pro-Bot Route Mat. They had a great time teaching Pro-Bot to draw geometric shapes using the built-in pen holder.

According to Mr. Carr, students enthusiastically embraced the robots. "At the beginning there was some head scratching and comments like 'I didn't tell it to go there, did I?' or 'Why did it go THERE?' but soon the students solved the challenges with high-fives and bright smiles all around."

As a "turtle" robot, Bee-Bot shares in the long, rich Logo heritage. Moving and programming Bee-Bot is very similar to controlling the Logo screen turtle. By including a Bee-Bot emulation program, Terrapin Logo ties the two even more closely together.

Bee-Bot.LGO can be loaded into Terrapin Logo from the Examples/Robots folder on the Terrapin CD or from the Terrapin web site. Load the program into Terrapin Logo and the turtle is transformed into a Bee-Bot that is controlled by using the mouse to press images of Bee-Bot buttons. A grid to guide programming is optional.

Bee-Bot emulation extends the Bee-Bot learning environment to the computer. Because it is a Logo program, the code can be studied and extended as desired. Terrapin welcomes suggestions for additional features to enhance its use.