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TeamBotsJunior was designed to enable children to program a robot
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soccer team and provide them with the ability to simulate a game between their
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programmed team and another robot soccer team. Designed by Jason Fortner,
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Kevin Meyer, Russ Dunbar, and Dan Blimline, with assistance from Tucker
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Balch and Maria Hybinette. TeamBotsJunior was designed to offer children a
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fun environment to experience computer programming in. The design of the
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program allows the user to select the level of difficulty with which they will
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program their team.
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There are three separate programming levels in the program. The first level
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allows the user to select what players will be on their team from a variety
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of preprogrammed players. This level is designed for younger children that are
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just interested in creating their own team. The middle programming level is
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geared to a high elementary to middle school age student. At this level the user
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is allowed to pick ten situations that they would like their robot to recognize.
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These situations come from a list of preprogrammed situations. These
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situations are ranked in importance and then matched with the action that
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should be preformed when the situation occurs. The selected action also
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comes from a preprogrammed list of actions. The final programming level
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allows the user to program what situations and actions the user would like the
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robot to be able to recognize.
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Along with providing different levels for the user to program their robot
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soccer team at, TeamBotsJunior also allows the user to upload and
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download teams to a central server. This will allow the user to simulate games
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with teams that other people have programmed. This option also allows for
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tournaments to be played between many different users.
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