Unit 1 Lesson 1

Name(s) Abhi, Winston, Luke, Vishnu Period 2 Date 01/25/21

Activity Guide - Personal Innovations 

Technological innovation is about recognizing a problem that needs to be solved, or recognizing

something needs improving and then building a tool to solve it.

As a class we’re going to see how innovative we can be, and we’ll share our ideas through
something called “rapid prototyping.” ​(Prototype ​is a fancy word that means a preliminary sketch of
an idea or model for something new. It’s the original drawing from which something real might be built or
created.)

First​: Looking at the list of 4 interests at your table, let’s ​think about how technology is impacted by,
or related to, those interests.

How could ​technology​ improve your interest to make it ​better, faster, ​or ​easier​ to use?

What is a ​problem​, or aspect of your interest, that a ​creative or innovative technology might
help solve​, or at least make better?

Interest Improvements Problems

Video Games With screen recording technology
we can review our games and find
out mistakes in the game and
correct them for the next game or we
can make a bot that explains
different things we could have done
in different situations of the game.
So the bot can open up different
ways to play the game.
Usually videogames are played one
way. This is called the meta.
Sometimes in video games people
get bored of the game because the
meta is the same.So with the bot it
can open up different possibilities
and different ways to play.

Hockey Tracking Technology / Cameras in Before tracking technology was

Hockey games allow the referees to
make better calls or decisions and
allows the audiences / fans to see
what is happening in the games.
Tracking technologies put into pucks
and hockey jerseys allow hockey
players and coaches to get better
feedback on shots and what should
be improved to make the shot better.
This also helps with studying
different games and seeing patterns
to help benefit the teams and
watchers.
introduced into hockey, calls that
refs made during the games may not
have been as accurate as it is with
the tracking technology. The refs
can only see so much out of the
mass of bodies crowded in a certain
area on the ice. These calls could
have been game changing. One
team should have won if the ref
made a better call and actually saw
what happened.

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Swimming There are boards which react to
touch that help accurately record a
swimmer’s time so that they don’t
have to rely on their timers’ reaction
speeds.Technology has also made it
possible to make more streamlined
swimsuits to go as fast as possible.
Rubik’s Cubes - Abhi Making a program to figure out the
fastest way to solve a scrambled up
cube. A program should be able to
run through all possibilities and
figure out what way is the least
amount of steps as well as what’s
the fastest.
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More often than not you need to
touch the board several times to get
it to register, so it doesn’t work all
the time, and may be inaccurate.
Plus, water and electricity don’t mix.
Some suits actually give unfair
advantages over others, making
competitions less fair.
Problems with Rubik’s Cubes is
once it’s scrambled, only if you know
all the algorithms, you’ll be able to
solve it. However, if you use a
computer program like the MIT
Robot made to figure out all possible
algorithms, you would be able to
solve it without having to learn and
memorize all the algorithms.
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Next:​ As a group, nominate the idea you’ve discussed that you think would be the ​most interesting to
everyone else​ in the class.

Start to sketch it out on a poster. ​Make a visual representation of your ideas.​ ​Remember this is
a rapid prototype, just something to convey the idea. Feel free to jot down ideas or sketches in
the space below:

Brainstorming and Notes

When watching hockey there should be a tracking algorithm so that everyone no matter where they are
can see how the players and moving and where the shots are going. This way fans and players won’t
have to constantly argue with the refs about whether or no the plays that wre

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