Programming as a basic competence in the age of information is a common goal of government and industry. The popular IT companies of the web 2.0 demonstrate: Programmers could be the new pop stars. At technikum29, we join this movement by inspiring youths to build robots. It's fun and supports creativity.
We offer two courses: An introductory course which is mainly based on graphical programming. In the advanced course, students learn to program with a programming language at the Mindstorms Education EV3 system.
We supervise up to 10 students per course, each with an own robot which is provided. Our workshops are for students in the age of 11 up to 13 years. We also collaborate with adult evening classes (Volkshochschule in Germany) to offer similar courses for unskilled adults.
Our robotics course promotes graphical programming with the LEGO Mindstorms technology. We build robots which can navigate autonomously. In our course, students learn:
Two years ago, they started from the scratch here in technikum29. Today, they are in 8th grade and succeeded at the World Robot Olympiad in New Delhi. A respectable fifth place goes to our alumni.