A Girl’s Thoughts on Coding Part 1
My thoughts on coding are it's fun and challenging. It was nice to try something new although at first I thought it would've been boring and hard for me. I gave it a try and it was awesome! It's not easy but it made me realize that amazing things can happen on a computer and […]
Maker Days Melbourne Projects
Another wonderful Maker Day Melbourne in this frosty July! Love watching kids design, think and create interesting projects using the littleBits. We'll let the video do the talking. Look out for more Maker Day events coming up!
The Highly Engaged Robotics Classroom
The engaged classroom. Students in the robotics classroom: Interact with technology Learn by doing Hold discussions with peers Engage with visual effects Face projects hands on Just some of the things at Robotics Club weekly……part of improving STEM education in Australia.
Modular Robotics Holiday Program for Primary School Kids
Fun! Engaging! Zero Programming! Unlimited imagination! Interactive! Zero wires!
STEM Education Takes Flight in Australia
What an awesome incursion at one of the high schools this week – the new Aerial Robotics! Lots of fun, flying, and taking STEM education to greater heights for Australian youth. Exploring quadcopters, drones and more on STEM and STEAM! What a great incursion to round up 2014. Looking forward to more new things in […]
Robotics Teacher Professional Development Courses
At Robotics Club, we provide Professional Development (PD) Courses in Robotics for teachers. We have a range of teacher PDs for robotics platforms such as Vex IQ, Vex, Robot Virtual Worlds and Lego Mindstorms EV3. Robotics Club has provided teachers from several top schools in Melbourne with PD's to help them implement robotics in the […]
Robot Virtual Worlds In Action
Students have started on yet another phenomenal STEM educator – Robot Virtual Worlds (RVW)! The cool thing about RVW is how it attracts students to programming in the virtual environment. Students learn programming with ROBOTC and attempt many challenges along the way. The virtual environment has been described by our students as extremely fun and […]
Robots Land at Melbourne Zoo!
Robots appeared at Melbourne Zoo today! High school students were creating and building robots to suit their theme of the day and the whole room was full of robot parts everywhere! What impressed everyone was their level of creativity and resilience at building their robots which is no mean feat! What's more, most of them […]
The Vex IQ Robot, A STEM Phenomena
The VEX IQ robot comes with structural elements which snap together making it easy to assemble and disassemble easily. With a variety of sensors such as the distance sensor, the colour sensor and the gyro sensor among others, the Vex IQ robots excites students to play with them and explore different possibilities. The best part […]
No robot? No problem
Do you have a robot? If not, no worries! Robot Virtual Worlds (RVW) is a high-end simulation environment that enables students, without robots, to learn programming. RVW is a cost effective solution for students to learn programming at home as well as teachers to use in the classroom. RVW simulates popular real world VEX®, LEGO®, […]