Robotics Circle - Ages 5-8 (Nov/Dec)

Robotics Circle is designed for open ended play, this program lets children create any experience through educational robotics - a humanoid character from a story, a moving carousel, a jumping frog, a race helicopter - anything they can imagine. Children engage in playful learning, cultivate their curiosity for the technological world, explore problem solving and understand concepts such as sequencing, coding, cause and effect, programming, sensors, motors, gears and actuators. This is an engaging introduction to powerful ideas from robotics, computer science, and engineering in a structured, developmentally age-appropriate paradigm. Children are given the opportunity to learn programming, sequencing and engineering concepts within these sessions. Additionally, our program also appeals to children who are not Lego enthusiasts and to those children that have limited reading and writing skills. After being immersed in this program, young children will be able to engage in both computational thinking and engineering design via working with various robotic and logic/coding platforms. Our facilitated workshops integrate the concepts of science, technology, art, sequencing and logic games, as well as drag and drop coding through robotics to deliver a unique and fun activity. This program is designed and delivered by our partners at Ottawa Robotics Academy.