Category: Pedagogy at ESIEA

For this year’s Olympic Games, our 160 students had to create teams of athlete robots and compete against each other for their final year project. The program included three distinct sporting competitions inspired by shot put, archery, and synchronized swimming!

Each student team was able to choose the country they wanted to represent throughout the week.

During the week, students and teachers were interviewed by Science & Vie Junior as part of the preparation for the book “Les maths tranquilles, spécial brevet” where you can discover their journeys.

For the 3^rd year running, the “end-of-year project”, which concludes our students’ first year, allowed them to put their newly-acquired computer science, electronics and physics skills into practice on their esieabot.

This year’s topic was simple: they had to design a team of autonomous firefighting robots to extinguish flames in a field. These flames, symbolized by a paper target with an ArUco marker, had to be “extinguished”, by throwing a ping pong ball at them.

Thanks to the esieabot-ai-api library developed for the occasion, the students were able to create autonomous robots in C language, thanks to the computer science courses they had taken this year.

See you next year!

Like every year, our first-year students close their semester with a full week dedicated to carrying out a project around the esieabot. The subject this year is simple: build from common and recyclable materials (cardboard, paper, paperclips, string, etc.) a motorized catapult on their esieabot, remotely controlled in order to compete in a final challenge at the end of the week.