Archive for the ‘STEM Activities’ Category

Suffolk Science Festival 2019

Next week, from 18 to 23 February 2019, is Half Term for many schools in Suffolk. It is also when the Suffolk Science Festival is being held. We are proud to support this event. On Tuesday, 19 February and Saturday 23 February we shall be presenting two whole days of robotics workshops. They will be […]

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What children think of RobotFun school visits

Back in Science Week in March I revisited one of my regular customers, a large junior school in Corby. I’d been asked to do an assembly and some robotics workshops for their Year 6 classes. Fitting four workshops into one school day was quite a challenge. They had a room I could use so there […]

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Norwich Science Festival (NSF) and Three New Robots

Norwich Science Festival I’m delighted to announce that I’m in the process of acquiring no fewer than three new robots, and that two of these robots will be joining me at the forthcoming Norwich Science Festival (NSF). I’ve some workshop sessions using Ozobot Bits and Edison robots on Monday, 23 October (which is half term […]

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Really Great Feedback from Saxmundham Workshop

It is always nice to be appreciated. Just before the end of term I visited Saxmundham Free School, at the invitation of one of their Maths teachers, Miss Moe, where I did a robot workshop day as part of their end of term enrichment week activities. The group was a bit larger than I’ve been […]

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Big improvements to Edison programming abilities

It is great to see that the little Edison robots are getting some software love. In the not too distant future, they’ll have yet another form of programmability. Currently, there are three ways that they can be programmed: They can be driven across pre-printed bar codes, which select from built-in algorithms like robot Sumo, line following […]

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Ozobot workshops and the KS1 & KS2 Computing National Curriculum

A couple of days ago I visited St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Ipswich, where I did a day of robot workshops for their early KS2 classes (Year 3 and Year 4). I started off by introducing each class to a selection of robots with different abilities. Then came the main event. The Y3 children […]

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Ozobot Workshops for KS1

Last Friday, I visited The Hyde School  in North London to help them launch their robots topic. As usual, I went equipped with a large number of robots. The day consisted of an assembly, followed by some Ozobot workshops for their KS1 classes. In the best ‘Blue Peter’ fashion, not quite all of the robots decided […]

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Edison 2.0 at PhysicsFest Ipswich 2016

Edison 2.0 is going to make its first appearance with lots of other cool RobotFun robots on this Sunday, December 4, 2016. We will be one of the attractions at PhysicsFest Ipswich, which is being held at Northgate High School, Sidegate Lane East, Ipswich. The event is on Sunday, December 4, 2016 and runs from […]

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Robot Dancing World Record – We Can Do This Too

Interesting news from China this week. There is apparently a world record for robot line dancing, and it was broken in at the Qingdao Beer Festival in China. No fewer than 1007 Aldebaran Robotics Nao mini humanoid robots strutted their funky stuff in unison for a whole minute. It is all in the BBC News report […]

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STEM Fair at Framlingham

At the invitation of Ambra Calver at Thomas Mills High School, a small selection of robots and I went off there last week to support their Y9 and Y10 STEM Fair. It was good to meet some very interesting people, staff as well as students, and I hope that I managed to convince a few people […]

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