Edge C Unit 2 Cluster 1 La Vida Robot

Under which section head will the reader find information about the underwater obstacle course?

• Epilogue

• The Team

• The Results

• The Competition

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What is the purpose of the captions that are underneath the photographs of the Carl Hayden team members?

• They tell which team member was most important.

• They compare the backgrounds of the team members.

• They describe the main role each team member played.

• They show the order in which the team members were chosen.

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The “Underwater Task Performance” diagrams show

• he size of the MIT team’s ROV.

• the materials used to build each robot.

• how well the Hayden team’s ROV was designed.

• how well both robots could remove fluid from a drum.

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What information is provided by the “Competition Results” graphic?

• the names of cities hosting robot competitions

• the score each team received in each category

• the reasons each team excelled in each category

• the number of people competing in the championship

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How did Frank Szwankowski help the Carl Hayden team members?

• He contributed money.

• He gave them special equipment.

• He encouraged them with his words.

• He taught them about working as a team.

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What is the best summary of this article?

• Two teachers are determined that their students will succeed at a national robot competition.

• Competitors in a national robot competition are surprised to learn that the winners are just teenagers.

• A scholarship fund and a movie may help four winners of a national robot competition attend college.

• Four teenagers overcome many difficulties to become the unexpected winners of a national robot competition.

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Who was the group leader?

• Cristian 
• Luis
• Oscar
• Lorenzo

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What was the "Brain" of Stinky?

• The center of the robot where the controls were
• The wires/ tethers 
• The remote control 
• Nothing, it didn't have a brain

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What did the team call Stinky's first trial run in a pool?

• Its "Baptism" 
• Trial #1 
• The purge 
• Ocean's 11 

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What was Mr. Cameron's profession before being the boy's substitute?

• NASA astronaut 
• Engineer
• School science teacher 
• Marine biologist 

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