Education

Toby Ford, a Year 10 student from the Blue School in Wells spent a week with us for his work experience and kept a log of all the activities he got up to!  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 →

"So I hear you have experience with LEGO." This sentence marks the day where I realised I had reached my peak of happiness. I had spent every moment of my childhood building and constructing LEGO, so when I was handed a huge box of not only robotics, but LEGO robotics, I was overjoyed. Continue reading →

The evolution of education has occurred over many centuries, although the process was only really formalised and envisioned as a mandatory part of a child’s development within the last 150 years. Continue reading →

The rise of Robotics is something that has to be embraced within the classroom in order to prepare the future generations for a world in which automation is far more ubiquitous than it is today. Continue reading →

From the early years, robotics can teach schoolchildren basic skills, such as critical thinking, presentation and teamwork. Continue reading →

Robots, or robotic devices, are commonplace in everyday life and are increasingly being employed as teaching tools in schools, colleges and universities. Active Robots explore the Role of Robots in the Classroom.   Continue reading →