Donkey Cars at Yarra Valley Tech School
summary
Yarra Valley Tech School runs a hands-on program where students build and tune small self-driving platforms using Donkey Car kits, race trained models, and decorate them with Lego. Classes use groups of three with defined roles, combine coding with debates on ethics, and extend into multi-day smart city and smart farming challenges that use Thymio robots, TurtleBot with LiDAR and ROS, projection mapping and laser cutting. Students report high engagement, surprising buy-in from girls by session end, and clearer learning when cars actually drive.
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- 0:00Donkey Cars intro
- 1:30Tech School purpose
- 3:41Group work in STEM
- 4:50Self-driving activity
- 7:01Student feedback results
- 8:45Lessons learned future
- 10:10Next project Smart City
- 12:04Projection mapping data
- 13:37LiDAR Turtle Bots
- 15:04Self-driving tech issues
- 16:51Autonomous vehicles overview
- 17:55Design thinking approach
- 18:41Multi-day programs
- 19:46Smart Farming Challenge
