These challenges let you be the engineer. Apply your programming skills to solve these problems with your RVR.

Challenge 1: The Delivery Route
- Your Task: Design a "delivery route" on the floor using tape. Program your RVR to navigate the route from a "warehouse" start point to a "customer" end point, stop for 3 seconds, and then return to the start. This requires precise control of speed, time, and turning angles.
- Makerspace Tools: Sphero RVR, iPad, tape.
Challenge 2: The Color-Coded Sorter
- Your Task: Create three different colored zones on the floor (e.g., red, green, blue). Write a program where you can "show" the RVR a colored card, and it will autonomously drive to the matching colored zone. This will require heavy use of if/then logic and the color sensor.
- Makerspace Tools: Sphero RVR, iPad, colored paper or cards.
Challenge 3: Search and Rescue Mission
- Your Task: Set up a small area (e.g., a 3ft x 3ft square marked with tape). Place a small piece of red paper somewhere inside the "disaster zone." Program the RVR to patrol the area in a back-and-forth pattern until it drives over the red paper. When it finds the "survivor" (the red paper), it must stop and flash its lights green. This mimics how a drone might search an area for a missing person.
- Makerspace Tools: Sphero RVR, iPad, tape, red paper.
Challenge 4: The Autonomous Rover (Capstone Project)
- Your Task: Design a complex obstacle course for your RVR. It must include at least two turns, one color-based action (e.g., flash lights when it sees blue), and one obstacle that it must autonomously detect and navigate around. Your goal is to write a single program that allows the RVR to complete the entire course without any manual control after you press "Start."
- Makerspace Tools: Sphero RVR, iPad, tape, colored paper, objects for obstacles (like books or blocks).