Summary
Mark and the Dude Perfect team design and build competing robots for a friendly battle of engineering. It's teamwork, iteration, and trade-offs on display.
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Ages 7+
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Talk about it
Every design choice is a trade-off — speed vs. strength, weight vs. power. The best robot balances these to fit the challenge.
- What trade-offs did the builders have to weigh (like speed vs. strength)?
- How did testing help the teams improve their robots?
- If you built a battle robot, what one goal would you design around?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: trade-off, design, test, iteration.
Try it: List three things a battle robot needs. You can only make two of them great — which do you pick, and why?