Grade 3 - Grade 6 [EV3 MINDSTORM ROBOTS]
Apprentice Robotic EngineersWhat if you could build a better and more interesting learning environment for young minds? Where would you begin?
This program is especially designed for kids in 3rd Grade – 6th Grade. The Apprentice Engineers curriculum is an effort to come together to innovate and solve problems while having fun building and programming robots using EV3 Mindstorm robotic kits. Our goal is to provide a thriving community brimming with inspiration, creativity, and hope for a stronger, more sustainable future – one that’s built better together. When students are engaged in hands-on STEM experiences, they build confidence, grow their knowledge and develop habits of learning.
Proven, verifiable impact!
This program engages and challenges students to practice STEM and robotics skills in a “near real world” environment, preparing them for college and a career in the technology-infused world.
Robotics4U’s positive impact on students is gratifying and the parent reviews say it all! Our goal is to teach, share, and learn together.
Build Code Learn
We focus on project based learning and this entire curriculum is infused with hands-on, cross-curricular STEM solutions that engage students by providing the resources to design, build and program their creations while helping them develop essential skills such as creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication.
Tuition Fee : $190/6weeks
**There is a one-time registration-fee of $25 for new students- Referral Discount Offer: If you refer our program to anyone, then in the next session you get 10% off your tuition fees
- Sibling Discount Offer: If you enroll more than one child in our robotics programs, then next session onwards you get 10% off on the second child every session
Our robotics program is curtailed in sessions. Each Session comprises a 6 weeks program. The first 5 minutes of each class is focused on training students for critical thinking and training them to learn how to think outside the box!. Students earn their certificates in the last week of the session and this last week is focused on training students for presenting their work to the class and learning and practicing presentation skills. The goal is to inspire and motivate our students for public speaking with confidence and to achieve these skills in a fun learning environment.
Where the MAGIC HAPPENS……GO BEYOND YOUR COMFORT ZONE!
After a few sessions, our apprentice engineers are encouraged and pushed slightly beyond their comfort zone of programming! WHY ??
Have you wondered, how relaxed and content we are in our “comfort zone” and that why should we make an effort to go out of this HAPPY ZONE ? Each of us has our own comfort zone which, more mostly, is a psychological/emotional/behavioral construct that defines our daily activity. It gives us the feeling of familiarity, safety, and security. It makes us feel secure pre-knowing the patterned world of existence, keeps us relatively comfortable and calm, and helps us stay emotionally even, free from anxiety and worry to a great degree. Creating a comfort zone is a healthy adaptation BUT so is stepping out of our comfort zone, when it’s time to TRANSITION, GROW AND TRANSFORM! This is a life skill that needs to be nurtured in students from the very beginning and something that cannot be learnt overnight!
Kids adapt and learn new skills much faster if they are learning it through a program, activity or sport that they are enjoying at the same time. This is what our programs are curtailed for – teach students to go beyond their comfort zone without fearing the anxiety of the unknown !!
How does our Program encapsulate the benefit of going beyond the comfort zone?
98% of people live in their comfort zone!
But what if you want to be part of the 2% who live outside your comfort zone? What does that look like? How do you get there? We encourage students to think and ponder about project specifications that have been given to the entire batch – how can you make your product look unique and stand out !
Take calculated risks and experience success
Even if you make mistakes or don’t get it right the first time those become experiences you can tap into in the future. There really is no such thing as “fail” if you get something out of the experience. And just so you know, “FAIL” re-framed means “First Attempt in Learning.” During the robotic product development or its programming, if you do not succeed at first – it has just added one more valuable lesson to your knowledge.
We enforce the saying: POSITIVE THOUGHTS BREEDS POSITIVE RESULTS
Challenging yourself
You have no idea what you’re made of unless and until you venture outside of your own familiar world. If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you ….and CHANGE IS GROWTH! During our classes, we challenge our students to make products applied to real life with providing them with limited resources or challenge them to refine their programs by reducing the number of lines of code or reducing the time taken by the program to run.
“I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job – BECAUSE He will find an easy way to do it !”
– Bill Gates
Embrace the Unknown
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you. To accept that not knowing is normal is healthy. Our curriculum encourages our students to find answers and helps them learn how to overcome instant gratification and make better choices. During mechanical design of the robots or during the debugging of programs instead of immediately acting on an impulse when it arises, we teach students to take a pause. We encourage kids to create some space between their urge and their action – another life skill !
Prioritize Time-Management
Have you ever wondered how it is that some people seem to have enough time to do everything that they want to, whereas others are always rushing from task to task, and never seem to finish anything? It cannot just be that some people have less to do. It’s much more likely that they are using their time more effectively: in other words, showing good time management skills. As we progress in our robotics sessions, we teach our teams to make a timeline for their products, right from product idea to product presentation. Do they succeed every time ? NO. Do they learn from every time their goals are not met because of poor time-management? YES.
During the course, our students learn that “Yes, time sure does fly by, but the good thing is that they are the pilot !”
Go for your DREAMS
The bottom line for nearly everyone is that we want to feel we have value, and that we achieve our goals in Life. Our dreams may be huge or they may be modest, but when we expect the best, there’s no way we’re going to settle for second best. We encourage our students to take an aerial view of their Dreams and then work toward it by taking their very first step outside their comfort zone.
What dreams are calling you to move beyond your comfort zone?