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Active Robots is changing and growing, and so is our education range! Supplying education, maker, and professional engineering industries with our varied ranges means we are aiding STEM careers from the root up. Continue reading →

Last year LEGO Education® joined forces with the government’s Year of Engineering campaign and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to give more children around the country the opportunity to meet engineering role-models and to take part in engaging STEM activities, as part of the Engineers of the Future competition. Continue reading →

Christmas is just around the corner again, and if you’re running out of ideas for what to get someone, then this is the list for you. Continue reading →

We found a great story on the web about two nine-year-old girls from the UK, Emily and Beth, who are taking the Robotics Competition industry by storm and it made us think about how important it is to support young people, particularly girls, in STEM subjects from an early age. Continue reading →

When I was at primary school, the class sat two to a computer that came complete with one of the original versions of windows and a modem that made the same sort of noise I imagine aliens converse in. These days, primary school classes have state of the art computer rooms, but it isn’t just about being computer literate now. Many schools are starting to embrace coding from an early age, getting kids ready, not just to encourage STEM education later in life, but also to widen their opportunities in the workplace. Continue reading →

“Give them tools and toys like a robotics kit…LEGO® MINDSTORMS® or if they’re older, get them Arduino or Raspberry Pi and just watch what happens.” Continue reading →

Give your primary school pupils confidence in computing with LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 WeDo introduces your primary school pupils to the exciting, rewarding world of computing. It’s a unique combination of LEGO® bricks, easy-to-use software and stimulating projects – all aligned to the KS2 computing curriculum. Continue reading →

Before this week I had two impressions of 3D printers. You have the huge, expensive machines that take days to print and cost more than I'd earn in a year. Then you have the other printers that, whilst affordable, print fuzzy and poor quality items. When I was tasked with using a cheap 3D printer I assumed it would be the latter, and I'd be lucky to make out feet from faces. It would turn out that this assumption couldn't have been further from the truth. Continue reading →

Robotics programming may seem ‘futuristic’, but it does introduce students to some educational concepts at an early age. Students learn basic electrical circuitry, mathematics and mechanics, but do so in a hands-on, problem-based way, which means that they must integrate and apply what they have learnt.  Continue reading →