Golden Gear Robotics runsschool holiday programs in the main school holiday periods, and schoolincursions throughout the school year.
For the younger age group weuse LEGO Edison robots, these are programmed by running them over bar codes aswell as simple graphical programming. They have multiple sensors so they canfollow lines, detect obstacles, respond to sounds and more! Students work inpairs or small groups.
For older kids, we use EV3LEGO Mindstorms education edition robots, which can be programmed to followlines, identify colours, detect obstacles, make sounds and more! Students workin pairs building and programming the robot to complete various challenges.
With scratch and Makey-Makeykids of all ages can create electronic sculptures which interact with thehumans around them in creative and interesting ways.
Kerry Mahoney has a backgroundas a psychologist involved in adult education. She has taught life skillsto ex-offenders, ex-drug-users and long-term unemployed. Les McFarlandhas worked in computer-related fields for 30 years. He currently consultsto several Victorian universities on issues relating to the use of informationtechnology.
Since 2014, they have been designing and running hands-onactivities in schools focused on science and technology.
Kerry has coached teams of school children in both the First Lego League (aninternational robotics competition) and Robocup (a local roboticscompetition aligned to the ACARA technologycurriculum).
Their passion began with teaching their own children about scienceand technology, and wanting to help all schools build on their predominantlyliberal-arts backgrounds, to become places of wonder, inspiration and supportedlearning around science and technology.
Contact Golden Gear Robotics todaywww.goldengearrobotics.com.au
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