Robots and Coding
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
- 45 minutes in the STEM Lab
- Year level
- Years 3 to 8
- Minmum student numbers
- Minimum 15 students
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 28 students
- Cost
- $11 per student + education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
In this hands-on robotics workshop, 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.
Victorian Curriculum links
Science
- 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).
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