Partner Meeting in Korsholm

Despite current problems with a travelling and growing concerns related to coronavirus, we managed to organise 4th partner meeting.

This meeting was hosted by Smedsby-Böle Skola, Korsholm, Finland and was organised perfectly. Those who couldn’t be with us in person joined online.

We summarised the development of teaching scenarios and discussed preparation for testing them both in our premises and by our colleagues from other schools.

We hope to share some positive news soon!

 

Assembling Poppy Ergo Jr

Poppy Ergo Jr is a small robotic arm with a great educational potential. For this reason we want to show you, how to go through the first stage of using it – assembling. Of course, you can find assembling instruction online, but the process is quite complex and not always intuitive, therefore we decided to record this movie. Enjoy!

 

Marty the Robot

Working with Marty the robot can be a great adventure. It starts very easily, even if you buy the kit for assembling or if you decide to print some parts on your own. There’s a very clear and helpful guide, how to assemble Marty.

However, the next steps: connecting to WiFi, calibrating and connecting to Scratch platform, can be more challenging in some cases. Even if there’s still a quite clear tutorial online, Marty not always responds as he is supposed to.

For this reason we decided to record this tutorial and to show you the whole process with some difficulties to overcome.

 

TinkerCAD tricks

TinkerCAD is a great online 3D modelling programme, which can be used by anyone, including children and beginners in the field of 3D modelling and 3D printing.

This is also a very useful, simple and user-friendly tool for those who want to design or customise educational robots.

In this tutorial we present more advanced functionalities of this programme: using additional workplane using a ruler, aligning and grouping the objects. They can be used in working with any type of robots you have in mind.

You can use it even with the primary school kids as introducing to 3D design and 3D printing.

 

Teaching physics with mBot

An example of a lesson, which can be introduced to primary school students.

In this tutorial, we show, how to use mBot robot during maths of physics lesson as a tool for explaining such physical terms as “speed”, “time”, “distance” and their relationships.

We present the basic code and a way of changing values of speed or time and comparing the results.

 

Coding with Airblock

Introductory tutorial to the Airblock robot drone designed by the Makeblock company and supported by the mBlock coding platform.

You will find here the implementation of a simple code, which can be used even during first lessons with kids starting their adventure with coding.

The drone starts to fly, does simple figures in the air and lands.

Important! For this exercise you’ll need rather high room and some space outside during the windless day. And never forget to add landing command to your code! If you do, it can fall down too quickly and fall apart.

 

Partner Meeting in Genoa

Partner Meeting in Genoa

We’ve just finished our third meeting.

This time partners met in Genoa – a beautiful Italian city. As we are almost in the middle of the project (time flies very fast), we had a lot to summarize and a lot to discuss:

We also visited the city and laboratory of the host – Scuola di Robotica.

The next results of our work will be available soon. Stay tuned! And in the meantime let us know if you like our job.


 

Our robotics database is ready!

Our robotics database is ready!

And here it is! 

The database of educational robots!

We gathered here information from all the parts of the Internet. We were searching and digging for weeks. Everything for you!

Now we can present the repository, where you and your friends can look and get the most important information about robots which can be used in schools.

We have there 95 records. It’s a lot. But we want more! So if you have any information which could be useful for us, don’t hesitate to comment below or write to us using the contact form on the main page.


 

Partner Meeting in Wadowice

Partner Meeting in Wadowice

After some time of hard project work, we met in Wadowice to summarize the first project period and share tasks for the next months.

The most important news! Robotics database is almost ready!! It will be open for you sooner than you think…

Visit us often!


 

EARLY project launched in Dalvik

EARLY project launched in Dalvik

After some months of waiting and hope, consortium partners finally met to officially start the project EARLY – Educational Advancements through Robotics Labs for Youth.

We met in Dalvik, Iceland, where Dalvíkurskóli, project coordinator, is located. It was a great time of sharing information, admiring Dalvik and its surroundings, and planning, planning, planning…

We have a lot to do and soon we will have a lot to offer especially for the primary school teachers, but not only.

  1. First, the database of educational robots will arrive (we want to find and share information about all available and useful educational robots).
  2. Then we are going to develop video tutorials and teaching scenarios – educational tools for teachers.

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More news soon!