We use a variety of robotics toolkits including (but not limited to) LEGO® Spike™ Prime, Spike™ Essential, WeDo 2.0 & Mindstorms EV3, Hummingbird & micro:bit.
Our projects are meticulously designed by our curriculum team to be fun and age-appropriate. Young learners learn new concepts in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) thru these projects. These custom projects are for ALL (beginner, intermediate & advanced) levels to explore every aspect of robotics and coding.
We conduct internal robotics and coding competitions and also prepare our students to participate in competitions like the First LEGO League. Our teams have won various awards in these world-wide competitions and they regularly qualify to regionals and higher levels.
Engineering Concepts ” covered “
Motors
- Speed
- Angle
- Direction
- Start and Stop
- Movement
Light
- Turn on and off
- Pixel Brightness
- Text and drawing
- Colors
Sound
- Use existing
- Record your own
- Start and stop
- Control pitch and volume
Sensors
- Color sensor (color, light)
- Gyroscope
- Force Sensor (touch, force)
- Accelerometer
- Distance sensor
Gears
- Gearing up and down
- Using different types of gears like crown and worm gears
Pulleys
- Changing the orientation of a pulling force
- Changing direction & orientation of rotation
- Increase of decrease a pulling force
- Increase of decrease the speed of rotation
- Increase of decrease the turning force (or torque)
Coding Concepts ” covered “
- Getting Started – Introduction to building & programming
- Programming the Hub
- Robot movement
- Wait Until & Sensors
- Loops
- Parallel Programming
- Event Programming
- Sound and Music
- Mathematical Operations
- External Web API Calls
LEGO Spike Prime & Spike Essential
LEGO WeDo 2.0
LEGO Mindstorms EV3
Hummingbird & ” Micro:bit”
Hummingbird Kit is comprised of lights, sensors and motors which allows students to build a robot out of any material.
The BBC micro:bit is a handheld, programmable micro-computer that can be used for all sorts of cool creations, from robots to musical instruments – the possibilities are endless.
Students use Hummingbird and Micro:bit to unleash their creativity to craft robots and animate them using both block- and text-based coding languages.