I used Hulu to choose the video, "The Great Robot Race". This story was shown on PBS Channel 8's Nova. It chronicles 43 teams that created a car completely run by computer codes; i.e. robot cars with no human drivers. It's fascinating because the robot car will make all the decision on how to navigate the terrain. Their human "creators" will follow them on the race, and can just watch. It shows exactly what we want our students to do...work on a team, have a novel idea, incorporate the content areas and present their research. It doesn't hurt that their is a million dollar prize for the successful team.
You can imagine the applications in the real world: Automatic pilot for our own personal cars, bikes, motorcycles, as quoted in the film, the ability to deliver crucial supplies to nations or our military on the front lines. It's perhaps another avenu for artificial intelligence.
It also shows how these scientists, computer programmers and engineers had to overcome failures. This is a great video to show how project based learning has impact for our technological advancement.
The video is linked on the side.
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