Schools
The STEAMCenter is a modern Educational Center that, inspired by Gardner's contemporary pedagogical theory regarding multiple types of intelligence, aims for a holistic approach to the educational process supporting the work of modern schools.
In our effort to communicate our proposals, we have developed specially designed workshops for elementary school students. The aim of the workshops is for children to come into contact with Educational Robotics.
Expert robotics instructors are waiting for you at our place, for a fun and educational lesson in building and programming robots!
Choose your workshop topicandmake your reservation now!
Expert robotics educators are waiting for you at our place, for a fun and educational lesson in building and programming robots!
SUBJECTS AVAILABLE
1st - 2nd grade
By studying symmetry in nature and geometric shapes, we build a robotic structure that helps us draw symmetrical shapes and concentric circles. Accuracy and coordination are principles that we must pay special attention to so that the result is impressive. All the students, with the help of the robots, draw their own symmetrical and geometric designs.
The topic is motivated by innovations in the automotive industry. Specifically discussing the role of bicycles and the contribution of robotics to them, we build our own smart vehicle and test its capabilities!
3rd - 4th grade
In this theme, children, starting from the relationship between sports and robotics, will build a robot that can participate in a sports activity. In the lab, children will discover how the sensors, motors and mechanisms work that enable the robot to move, interact and participate in a sports game.Through programming and experimentation, they will study the importance of precision, speed and timing, and at the end of the workshop their robots will compete in a friendly competition, putting their skills to the test. Will robots be able to meet the challenges of sports?
What are these characteristics that make a robot humanoid? What are its different functions and in what ways can it change people's daily lives? By discussing these questions we build a humanoid robot. We observe if it has all these characteristics that it should and then program it. Through tests and interventions, the children study how to transmit the robot's movement, balance and gait. At the end of the lab the humanoids have a mission, to get to the lab first. Will they succeed?
5th - 6th grade
In this theme, children, starting from the relationship between sports and robotics, will build a robot that can participate in a sports activity. In the lab, children will discover how the sensors, motors and mechanisms work that enable the robot to move, interact and participate in a sports game.Through programming and experimentation, they will study the importance of precision, speed and timing, and at the end of the workshop their robots will compete in a friendly competition, putting their skills to the test. Will robots be able to meet the challenges of sports?
What are these characteristics that make a robot humanoid? What are its different functions and in what ways can it change people's daily lives? By discussing these questions we build a humanoid robot. We observe if it has all these characteristics that it should and then program it. Through tests and interventions, the children study how to transmit the robot's movement, balance and gait. At the end of the lab the humanoids have a mission, to get to the lab first. Will they succeed?
GENERAL LABORATORY DETAILS
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Target
Introduction to programming through appropriate educational practices concerning:
• using a computer/tablet
• in the use of educational objects - Classes: 1st - 6nd grade
- Number of students: έως 50
ROBOTICS LABORATORIES PHILOSOPHY
The workshops are adapted and differentiated based on the age of the children as follows:
• 1st - 2nd grade
• 3rd - 4th grade
• 5th-6thgrade
For each category you can choose between two topics, related to the robotic construction with which the children will deal.
During the workshop the children have the opportunity to build and program their own robot.
In each unit robotics is approached thematically, thus helping children to connect their existing knowledge of the world with something new and different.
As a group, under the guidance of the teachers, they complete the robotic construction, observe it and make assumptions about the way it is constructed, its function and its special characteristics.
Thus, coming into contact with the basic concepts of programming, they put their robot into operation.
They experiment, test, readjust and observe their construction.
Experientialists understand principles of engineering and take an active role in the experimental process by disproving or verifying their initial assumptions about the structure and function of the structure.
At the end of the workshop, all groups together make a presentation of their robots.
STEAM & Educational Robotics
Educational robotics is the practical application of theoretical knowledge, thus giving students the opportunity to consolidate concepts, love Science and Technology and realize that they can in this way benefit and benefit society and the world.
At the same time, it is a very useful tool for the development of the child's structured thinking as well as his fine motor skills.
Educational Robotics is a new Science in which elements of software development, mechanical engineering and the study of human behavior are combined.
It is a fact that its first integrated applications appear in fields such as medicine and industry.
Educational robotics is inextricably linked to STEM education, as it makes full use of Technology and Mathematics.
Through educational robotics, children learn to build and program robots, staying up-to-date on current technological developments.
In the first robotics lessons, students use processors, sensors, motors and building blocks to build their own robot.
Then, with specially configured software, the students set their constructions in motion via a computer, acquiring programming (engineering) and problem solving skills.
Consequently, through robotics technology, children are prepared for the professions of the future.
Educational Robotics & Computational Thinking
Robotics also, through the methodology of STEM at a young age, is of particular value as it gives children the opportunity to cultivate certain important skills, such as Computational Thinking.
Robotics also, through the methodology of STEM at a young age, is of particular value as it gives children the opportunity to cultivate certain important skills, such as Computational Thinking.
Computational Thinking is a person's ability to successfully apply the following steps to problems in their daily life:
- Removal: Separating the necessary from the unnecessary elements
- Partitioning: Dividing the problem into sub-problems, which when solved lead to the solution of the original
- Algorithmic Thinking: Dividing the solution into discrete steps
- Pattern Recognition: Fully understand the steps that led us to the solution so we can apply them to other similar problems
- Use of technology: use of technological means to make the solution we found more easily applicable in the future!
Method of Conduct
Εκπαιδευτικό Πακέτο A -
Στο STEAMCenter! (Basic)
- Διάρκεια: 1,5 ώρα
- Kόστος: 3,5 ευρώ ανά μαθητή
- Location: In the STEAMCenter!
- Content: Building and programming robots
- Duration: 2 hours
- Cost: 6 euros per student
- Location: In the STEAMCenter!
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Content: Building and programming robots
+ Thematic construction with an electronic circuit for each child, which they take with them as a souvenir!
