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The Slovak competition the Summer Robotic League is for pupils aged between 9 and 16 who want to better prepare their teams for the international competition FIRST LEGO League or for pupils who just love robotics. The Summer Robotic League exists since 2013 and has not yet been explored in terms of educational aspects. The archive offers a variety of students’ solutions that are suitable for qualitative analysis. In this article we therefore focus on the analysis of the tasks in selected year of The Summer Robotic League. In our research we used qualitative methods of data collection and data analysis. We analysed the submitted solutions of participants and tried to find dependencies between tasks and solutions and we identified misconceptions related to used programming concepts in participants’ solutions. These results should serve to better design tasks in the next Summer Robotic League.
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Miková, K., Krcho, J. (2021). Educational Contribution from Summer Robotic League. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67411-3_17
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