The Not So Wise Invention
In a town school, Max is a very intelligent and applied 8-year-old boy
who loved robotics and science. He spent his free time designing, modifying
robots from his old toys and from things he found in his house.
Since he spent so much time focusing on his designs, he barely left home
and did not play much with his friends. In the school playground he used to
stay in a corner with his notebook writing all the ideas that were going
through his head for future projects and how he could improve them.
Some children in
his class would mess with him and tell him that he wasn’t normal for not doing
the same things they did. Max did not care because he knew that normal was
boring and that he was not bored because he was going to become one of the
coolest people when he created his robot.
Some school children, seeing that Max
did not care when they bothered him, decided to change their strategy. They
began to hide his tools and pieces that he used to build his robots. They were
buried in the yard, in the classroom, in different suitcases or in the gym.
Eventually, Max realized of what was going on, so he came up with a plan.
He would use his knowledge and as much time as he could to design a robot that
would protect him from his annoying classmates. He called it Roboti Guardespaldi.
One of the first things that Max did was that he taught him was to find
the things that the other children hid from him in different places. Max put a radar
and a metal detector, so that Roboti Guardespaldi knew where he had to track
them.
When his classmates came to bother
him in the yard, his Roboti would emit sounds of different animals
to scare them and make them go away. The bad thing about Max creating this
robot is that at the end Max got used to him doing everything for him and the
purpose he had was to defend him from the children, but they also began to
annoy the robot.
As soon as the children saw that the robot did everything for Max, they tried to make the robot work for them too. But Max was smarter than
everyone and every night at home was reprogramming Roboti, so his behavior
would be different every day and no one else could dominate him.
The bad thing is
that he changed a lot of its behavior and began to give Max problems at home. For
example, if he saw someone giving him a very strong hug, he thought it was like
an aggression and went out to defend him. If someone helped him collect his
books he thought, he wanted to hide them and he also acted. In the end, Max's Roboti Guardespaldi gave him more
problems than solutions.
So finally Max. decided to tell his parents everything and
helped him understand that in that way was not OK to repeat the bad behavior of the
people. That he had to seek help and always try to talk and make things
understandable, without taking easy shortcuts.
Max understood and the next day he
said goodbye to Roboti
By Adriana Butrón, Step 9.
