Last weekend our popular robot dancing contest was hosted in partnership with the superb Adelaide City Library. We had four enthusiastic schools with ten teams between them. The participating schools were: Parafields R-7 School, St Michaels Lutheran Primary School, St John’s Grammar School, and Woodcroft College. Each team demonstrated excellent skills in teamwork, problem solving, and programming. The goal was for the students – with the help of their dedicated teachers – to programme a NAO robot to dance for up to 30 seconds using the Choregraphe software.
However, the extra challenge was none of the students had ever worked with a physical robot before! All the teams completed their preparatory coding work on the Virtual Robot in Chorégraphe. Then, at the Dance Off Hackathon, they were able to get hands on with a real NAO robot to test out their programming. It was fantastic to see all the teams take up the challenge and have fun, while adjusting any last-minute coding to create their innovative dance moves.
Everyone made a brilliant effort, especially our winners … Woodcroft College!
Our Everybody Dance NAO Champions from Woodcroft College created a NAO dance that incorporated music, flashing LEDs (that changed colour) and speech, alongside great, balanced dance moves!
Each of the Dance moves were judged on their Balance, Creativity, Fluidity of Movement and Musical Timing, with a bonus point for original musical composition. We were fortunate to have three exceptionable judges, who had the unenviable task of picking a winner from 10 amazing dance compositions.
We would like to thank our Judges, The Lady Mayoress of Adelaide Genieveve Theseira-Haese, Monica Williams from AISSA and Simon Loffler from University of SA MOD for their generous support.
And likewise, a big thank you to the Adelaide City Library, the students, teachers and their families for supporting this wonderful event.
