What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 2 to 4, Monday to Friday
Outreach Program for regional Victoria

Duration

60 minutes

Year level

Years 3 to 8

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 20 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 32 students

Cost

$11 per student

Booking information

Bookings
Express your interest
Booking and cancellation policy

This STEM program brings one of Scienceworks' most successful workshops to students in regional areas.

Robotics on the road is a hands-on incursion program that engages participants in real-world scenarios. Students are required to design and write codes for their robots, creating self-driving autonomous cars.

Using block-based programming, students work in pairs with mBots and iPads, developing STEM skills such as problem solving, creativity and innovation as they code, debug and collaborate to achieve a motivating end-goal. The program will also engage students in considering STEM future careers and applications.

Who is eligible for the program?

The Robotics on the road program is suitable for students in years 3 to 8 who can’t easily attend the experience at Scienceworks due to distance (living in regional Victoria).

Visits are scheduled by geographic location to maximise opportunities for regional schools to participate. Subject to availability.

Program sessions cater for approximately 32 students and run for 60 minutes, allowing for up to three sessions to be run during a school day.

Where are we visiting?

The program will be delivered at schools in 2024 on week-long trips throughout regional Victoria.

The locations of our visits across Terms 2 to 4 will be based on demand, so please express your interest if you are interested in the program in your region or wish to find out more information.

Dispositions

Students will be

• Collaborators
• Communicators
• Creative and critical thinkers
• Problem solvers

Victorian Curriculum links

In this workshop we will cover

• Digital Systems – hardware and networks: sensor hardware, that the iPad connects with the robot via Bluetooth (VCDTDS019), (VCDTDS026), (VCDTDS035). 
• Creating Digital Solutions – computational thinking can help us use computers such as robots to solve problems. We can get information from sensors (inputs) and program how the computer will react to that information (output) (VCDTCD023), (VCDTCD030), (VCDTCD032), (VCDTCD033) , (VCDTCD040), (VCDTCD044). 
• Science Understanding – scientific inventions such as robots can be designed and created to solve problems that impact people’s lives (VCSSU056), (VCSSU073), (VCSSU089). 
• Science Inquiry Skills – questioning, predicting and explaining results given from robot coding (VCSIS070), (VCSIS086), (VCSIS111).