EDRO Robotics Workshop for Juniors - 3rd and 4th October (Johannesburg)
Tue Oct 3, 13:00 - Wed Oct 4, 17:00
Jeppe High School for Girls
ABOUT
A 2 day, 8 Hour Introduction to EDRO Robotics - for children aged 9 to 12.
“See it move… Watch it go! Look, it’s drawing a spiral now... And I coded it to do that!”
Robotics 101 for Juniors introduces children to the world of coding robots. This workshop is hands-on, practical and, most of all, fun! We will spend our time playing games, solving problems through the use of GUI coding, and learning some very important programming concepts along the way.
This hands-on introduction covers the first module of EDRO's Junior Robotics Programme. After successful completion of the course, all participants are certified and can progress to the second module in later courses
Essential Workshop Details
- Ages: 9 to 12
- Length: 2 Days/ 8 hours
- Date: Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th October
- Time: 13:00pm to 17:00pm
- Where: Jeppe High School for Girls
Day 1
- Introduction to the world of robotics: What is a robot?
- We explore all of the essential elements needed to call something a robot and examine some current examples of robots.
- The fundamentals of programming in a drag and drop interface.
- Instruction in the basic use of the S2 Graphical User Interface: Loops, delays and LED sequences
- Simple robotic movement
- The mathematics behind robotic movement: straight lines, circles, point turns
Day 2
- Advanced robotic movement
- We draw more advanced shapes using movement sequences.
- Maze navigation
- A mini-competition in instructing robots to escape mazes.
- Creating geometric patterns with the S2 robot
- We let down our hair and have some fun exploring the artistic side of robotics.