Description
CREATE – SOLVE – INNOVATE
Invest in their Future – Embark on an immersive I.D.E.A.S MakerLab course with RoboCatapult Tech! This course is designed to level up your student’s creative problem-solving abilities by equipping them with essential skills in coding, robotics, and engineering using cutting-edge tools such as micro:bits, intelligent programming robot, and Lego Technic bricks.
In the RoboCatapult Tech adventure, students not only delve into coding fundamentals but also explore the exhilarating challenges of drive, accuracy, and precision. After designing and building their RoboCatapult, your engineer will use the versatile MakeCode, block-based language to program and control their RoboCatapults. The RoboCatapult, equipped with sensors and remote-control capabilities, transforms coding concepts into a tangible and interactive experience.
Join us as we conquer the code-controlled RoboCatapult, where students learn to navigate challenges and build a foundation in critical skills for the future. RoboCatapult Tech is more than just a course; it’s an exciting journey that sparks creativity, fuels curiosity, and propels students into the captivating intersection of CODE+ROBOTICS+LEGOS.
The STEAM Team
This lab program is taught by STEAMwhiz’s educational program director Allie Pulecio. She is certified in K-6th education, published STEM education work in a peer-reviewed journal, and has over 20 years of classroom experience and curriculum development. The lab is overseen by STEAMwhiz’s scientist Dr. J who holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, has worked as a physicist at premier U.S. research institutions, as well as an engineer at fortune 100 companies, and authored over a dozen publications in top-tier journals. Together they are driven by their passion to empower students to develop their analytical and critical thinking, necessary to prepare them for the future. STEAMwhiz Innovation Labs offers year-round STEM programs, MakerLab events, and Sci-Tech Summer Camps.
Explore Up
The Science Behind Robotic Tech & Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Micro:bit Tech
Skill Up
MakeCode: Block-based Coding Language
Mechanical Engineering: Gears & Motors
TpBot: Intelligent Programming Robot
Build Up
Putting it All Together!
Construct & Program a RobotCatapult Controlled with Code
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Our Method of Success
Eliminate the fear and allow our children the time and space to fail forward and succeed. The STEAMwhiz Method will help students build their confidence in themselves and their abilities through discovery, tests, creation, and analysis. STEAMwhiz kids will be able to embrace the idea that failures lead to opportunities to learn and grow. STEM/STEAM learning experiences offer amazing opportunities to develop powerful GROWTH MINDSET attributes, which are pivotal for success!
Prior Knowledge
Each lab is built upon the other. Students will be given the time necessary to develop new connections resulting in new learning. When instruction is not jumping from one new thing to the next, students can develop goals, take on challenges, learn from mistakes, practice new skills, persevere, and ultimately create a culminating “Show-What-You-Know” PBL unit (project-based learning).
Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning empowers students to seize control over their learning experiences, following their interests and passions as they address a driving question or challenge; through investigation and inquiry; student voice and choice; reflection; revision; and finally, a project to be shared and celebrated. As students work with one another to create projects to share, they become responsible for the assessment of their work. Project-based learning frees students from the anxiety of meeting the expectations of school and/or instructors while allowing them the agency to create using the meaning they’ve developed from their experiences. This is a powerful re-imagination of what is possible!
