Discover Robotics at Spark Lab! 🚀
What exactly do students learn in a robotics class? At Spark Lab Robotics Center, we teach a complete program that helps kids learn real-world skills. Our program guides students through every step of building and programming robots.
1. Building Robots
Every robot starts with its parts. In our classes, students work hands-on with many different building pieces. They learn what beams, plates, connectors, pins, gears, chains, and pulleys are for and how to use them. Kids learn to think like engineers as they put their robots together piece by piece.
Learning to build with these parts helps kids in many ways. It improves their problem-solving skills as they figure out how to connect pieces and make designs stable. It also boosts their creativity as they imagine and construct unique robots. Working with these parts helps develop fine motor skills and spatial reasoning, which means they get better at understanding how objects fit together in space.
2. Robot Electronics
After building, we add electronics to make robots work! Our program teaches how robots interact with the world and do different actions. Students learn about both input and output electronics:
- Output (how robots act): This includes motors (to make things move), sound (for alerts or fun noises), light (LEDs for signals), and electromagnets (for picking things up).
- Input (how robots sense): Kids discover how robots "see" and "hear" using light sensors, distance sensors, and microphones. They also learn about switches as a basic way for robots to get information.
This part of the program teaches kids how to give their robots senses and make them respond to their surroundings.
3. Programming Robots
The last step is telling the robot what to do. Our programming section teaches how to write code for a microcontroller, which is like the robot's brain! Students learn important programming ideas through fun activities:
- Sequencing: Learning the order of commands.
- Loops: Making actions repeat.
- Conditions: Teaching the robot to make choices ("if this happens, then do that").
- Events: How code starts when something specific happens (like pressing a button).
- Messages: Helping different parts of the program or different robots talk to each other.
- Variables: Storing information for the robot to remember.
- Functions: Creating reusable parts of code.
By learning these ideas, students can make their robots do smart and complex things.
Ready for your child to start their robotics journey? Learn more about our programs and sign up for a trial class today!
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