Play is an important part of a child’s life, and with good reason – there are few better ways to explore the physical laws that govern the world around us. RoboMindTech helps children build intuition about key STEM principles, and develop strong critical thinking skills that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.

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In our workshops, children create machines and robots from the ground up. Experienced instructors explain the how and why every step of the way, always being careful to relate the day’s build back to a real-world concept the children can connect to. After a core build is completed, children are asked to put on their “engineering hats” – they are given time to explore the model’s basic functionality, and then they are tasked with a design challenge that asks them to integrate prior knowledge with the novel mechanisms that they themselves built from scratch. 

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Context and immersion greatly enrich the learning experience. Being able to hold a model in your hands, being able to observe exactly how the gears mesh and the linkages move, being able to change that machine in order to produce a desired behavior - in my experience, this is a very effective way to introduce and communicate concepts which are commonly presented to much older students in an abstract mathematical way. After all, understanding conservation of energy does not necessarily involve balancing equations.