Code and create
Empower students to design, build and code robots using Scratch with this free, curriculum-aligned STEM robotics workshop at Baylab!
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Overview
This interactive robotics coding session is designed to develop primary-aged students' digital-critical thinking and problem solving - all while having fun!
Over the course of the workshop, learners will take on 2 creative, health-focused projects that bring coding to life in ways that feel both fun and surprisingly meaningful.
Throughout both builds, students will build and program LEGO Spike robots, use Scratch to solve real-world challenges, see coding in action and understand how coding is used in everyday technology, and develop key skills such as team building, problem solving and communication.
The workshop supports key elements of the National Curriculum for computing at Key Stage 2:
- Design, write, and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
- Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.
- Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.
Location
The workshop takes place at Baylab, an onsite teaching lab in Bayer's UK headquarters in Reading.
Baylab
Bayer plc
400 South Oak Way
Reading
RG2 6AD
Important information
This is a free, 3-hour workshop.
Capacity is between 10-18 participants per workshop.
Fully supported by trained STEM facilitators with enhanced DBS.
Details
- School subject
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- Technology/computing
- Curriculum links
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- Engineering
- Technologies - Craft, design, engineering and graphics: Application of engineering
- Design thinking and engineering: Engineering
- Technology & design - Control
- Group size
- Small groups
- Participation level
- Hands-on
- Duration
- Half day
- Cost
- Free
- Location
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Offsite
- Baylab, Reading RG2 6AD
Learning outcomes
- Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
- Attainment and progress
- Improve awareness and aspirations for STEM-related study and careers
- Challenge stereotypes by showing the diversity of disciplines, people and skills involved in engineering
Frameworks
EqualEx
- Introduce and Inspire
Essential skills
The essential skills every young person needs to succeed in education and their future career. Find out more at the Skills Builder Partnership. This experience builds the following skills:
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Enrichment framework
- 5 - An accessible and engagement enrichment offer
- 7 - An outcomes-focused enrichment offer
- 6 - An enrichment offer that works in partnership
