Schools

  1. 5 Skills Coding improves in Children
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    5 Skills Coding improves in Children

    Technology has become more and more ubiquitous in recent years, causing coding to turn into a requirement for basic literacy. Knowing how to use a smartphone or tablet is not enough anymore. Continue reading →
  2. UnicornBot will help kids learn STEM and coding.
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    UnicornBot will help kids learn STEM and coding.

    Robots are an important part of STEM education, and there are many robots that can help children to learn coding. This Robot from UBTECH Robotics is different as it has a purple mane, four legs, and a light-up horn. Continue reading →
  3. If low skilled workers are getting harder to find, should we be focusing more on STEM in schools?
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    If low skilled workers are getting harder to find, should we be focusing more on STEM in schools?

    We stumbled across an article recently highlighting a worrying trend in the food production industry where a shortage of workers was causing many factories to fall behind with production leaving them worrying about getting jobs completed in time for Christmas. Continue reading →
  4. How Robots Are Helping Schools Teach STEM Subjects
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    How Robots Are Helping Schools Teach STEM Subjects

    Humanoid Robots are in classrooms, helping teachers build for the future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Continue reading →
  5. First Use: Weistek 3D Printer
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    First Use: Weistek 3D Printer

    Before this week I had two impressions of 3D printers. You have the huge, expensive machines that take days to print and cost more than I'd earn in a year. Then you have the other printers that, whilst affordable, print fuzzy and poor quality items. When I was tasked with using a cheap 3D printer I assumed it would be the latter, and I'd be lucky to make out feet from faces. It would turn out that this assumption couldn't have been further from the truth. Continue reading →
  6. A Lego Adventure
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    A Lego Adventure

    "So I hear you have experience with LEGO." This sentence marks the day where I realised I had reached my peak of happiness. I had spent every moment of my childhood building and constructing LEGO, so when I was handed a huge box of not only robotics, but LEGO robotics, I was overjoyed. Continue reading →
  7. Juke Bots - More Robot Triage
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    Juke Bots - More Robot Triage

    My second task during work experience was to get two cute Wall·E like bots up and running. The plan was to have them whizzing around whilst blaring out music. These bots seemed relatively cute and simple compared to the behemoth of the hexapod, so I began trying to fix them. Continue reading →
  8. Work Experience - In at the Deep End
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    Work Experience - In at the Deep End

    Having had no prior experience with any robotics, it was quite daunting to see a huge hexapod lying in front of me on my first day of work experience. This hexapod had been abandoned in a box for many years, wires were spewed out across its lifeless back and its circuitry was all exposed. It was my job to nurture this poor robotic ant back to health. Continue reading →
  9. Primary Schools Embrace Robots
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    Primary Schools Embrace Robots

    The schools outreach team at Active Robots has had an extremely busy few months and have been out in a huge number of primary and secondary schools conducting robotics workshops. Continue reading →

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