About This Program

All future jobs will be affected by robotics and automation and preparing your child for this future of AI (Artificial Intelligence), Robotics and Automation will improve their future success. As an educational enrichment program, we not only cover STEM concepts within the Ontario Elementary and Middle School Curriculum but we extend this learning into real-world problems, enhancing your child’s math, logical problem solving, collaboration and presentation skills.

Using The Latest and Most Advanced Technology

SmartKids Robotics uses the newest Lego Spike Prime (not the discontinued Mindstorms EV3 platform).  With the Lego Spike Prime, we use both the advanced sensors as well as customized sensors that we develop that also connect into an advanced Arduino / Python-based coding platform – simply because these sensors and the newest coding platforms open up so many more possibilities for your child.

Kids build and code different robots at each class and may also collaborate with other students for a collaborative STEM-based robotics project that aims to understand and solve a specific real-world based problem.

STEM-based lesson include:

• Understanding and building Gear Ratios for Supercars to calculate rotations, measuring acceleration and speed and measuring the effects of speed on turning.
• Calculating weight and weight distribution and how it affects a robot designed to carry varying weights such as those same robots developed for Amazon.
• Measuring the speed of colour sensors, against varying colours and creating triggers that allow the robot to react differently to different items and perform various tasks based on both the colour and or distance of an item.

Your child will use sensors and motors, design, build, and code their robotic models to move, rotate, push, lift, race, grab and more.   We use STEM based concepts within every lesson, that include concepts surrounding weight distribution, gravitational forces, structure stability, rotational pivots, gear-ratio, degrees and angles and basics of geometry and how it affects their robotics.

What is the class structure?

Your child is assigned their own laptop, no need to bring one but you can choose to.  And they work at their own pace designing, building & coding through guided instruction, sometimes completing challenges independently and at other times collaboratively within small groups. Classes are 90 minutes and include:

• • 20 Min. – Robotics & Coding Program Challenge Lesson (STEM-Based)
  • 40 Min. – Robotic Building
  • 20 Min. – Coding Build
  • 10 – 15 Min. – Challenge Completion / Testing

All students build different robotics that serve to focus on completing a different challenge at every class.