Sadly, Dr. E’s WeDo Challenges and Dr. E’s MINDSTORMS Challenges will no longer be posting new challenges. However, both websites will remain up so that you can continue to access the previous challenges and all of the wonderful submissions. Thank you to LEGO Education and to the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts University for their years of support (and thank you to LEGO for their amazing robotics platforms). During the six years of WeDo challlenges and five years of MINDSTORMS challenges, we received almost 1000 submissions from around the world. The two websites had a total of 1266 registered users from 57 different countries. We were truly a global community! We have always been inspired and energized by the creativity and innovation shown by the Dr. E's Challenges community; while new challenges won't be posted moving forward, we hope that you continue doing awesome stuff in your homes, clubs, and classrooms and that you continue to share your projects with the world! Collaborating with all of you has been a joy and an inspiration. Thank you, The folks at Dr. E’s

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Burglar Alarm

Goal: You have a valuable treasure to protect! Make a WeDo burglar alarm to keep it safe and sound. If someone gets too close to you†r treasure, the alarm goes off, scaring the intruder away. As an extra challenge, can you figure out how to program the alarm to reset itself after it goes off? 

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Start date: October 1, 2014
Due date: October 31, 2014

Rules: Your alarm must use a WeDo sensor. You can only use the sensors and motors from the WeDo kit. However, you are welcome to use multiple WeDo kits, additional LEGO pieces, and non-LEGO materials. Tips for using WeDo motors can be found here: Design for Motion. For tips on using sound with the WeDo program, check out this snippet: Programming Sound.

 

Submissions for Burglar Alarm

The shoplifter

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A burglar prowls the neighborhood robbing stores, but he doesn’t know that in the jewelry there is a new alarm for catching him by surprise. Marina and Eva have built a sound and light alarm to wake the whole city when a thief tries to steal. The city can be calm with this new alarm. […]

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Treasure beach

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There is a treasure in the beach, and some burglars want to rob it. But Isabel and Fran have thought a good plan for stop them. When they are closed to the treasure, an alarm will sound and a lever will hit the burglars.   Treasure beach, construido por Fran e Isabel para el reto […]

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