Young engineers will build their robots and learn to code them to solve fun team challenges. We’ll build our bot with a Micro:bit microcontroller brain, sensors, and motors that make it move, follow commands, and paths, avoid obstacles and even sing a song. Learning themes include robotics, computer programming, physical computing, mechanical engineering, circuitry, and physics. Engineers will program their bot creations, first in Scratch, a drag-and-drop, color-coded programming editor created by MIT to teach skills and concepts in programming, and then advance to an introduction in Python, the industry-standard programming language.
Skills Learned: Robotics, Hands-On Engineering, Coding (MIT Scratch & Python), Physical Computing, Computational Thinking