.A Robot Revolution is coming . . . is your child prepared?  Parents and educators agree that more S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) should be taught to our children in order to prepare them for a very different world ahead.

But do you know why? Because it develops Computational Thinking skills, a key cognitive ability in our technological world. Computational Thinking is a way of designing systems, solving problems, troubleshooting issues and predicting results that draw on concepts fundamental to computer science. This kind of attitude and skill set is indispensable for everyone in today's technical world and will be a key to our children's future success.  

  Rad Robots classes are specially designed to develop Computational Thinking skills in both BOYS AND GIRLS while engaging them with fun robotic challenges and programming concepts.

• The most up to date technology. We source new robots from around the world.  
• Open-ended problems to develop hands-on solutions. 
• We have relationships with robot manufacturers around the world and often are the first in the USA to beta-test new robots.  
• Students learn the Cyclical Design process that engineers use to think and refine their process to succeed!  

Students learn robotics through themed competitions and fun activities which is natural motivation for them to think, refine their process and succeed!  After all, if you want a robot to perform in a certain way (complete a maze, win a battle, or score a point), precision is a must. Coding must be precise, design elements must be precise and the feedback the robot receives from its sensors and environment must be precise.  Getting it right takes multiple trials and refinements.

Our innovative curriculum teaches Robotics, Tangible Coding and Graphical Programming in a Computational Thinking framework using hands-on time with various types of robots.  

• Students explore input sensors (infrared, gyroscopes, light, sound, etc.), differential drive systems, piezo transducers, pixel animations, L.E.D. outputs and more! 

•  Every new lesson includes a "Word of the Day" and a challenge or game for students to complete. 

•  For younger children, lessons start with a story that seamlessly teaches robotics concepts and progresses to each child recreating the story adventure by programming  the actual robot. 

•  Each grade level Kindergarten through fifth grade varies robots and curriculum.

The program is spiraled so a Kindergartener can start the program and learn new concepts and use different robots each year through fifth grade.  The program is not sequential, however,  so any student can join at the beginning of any session at any grade level with no prior experience.

We partner with teachers, parent organizations, schools and other groups who want to bring robotics programs to their students.  

• We provide complete kits worth thousands of $$$.  Each kit includes robots, curriculum, training, support and all the materials!
• No cost to schools (parents pay low-cost tuition for their child)
• Online parent registration 
• We prefer to train and hire classroom teachers already in the school to teach the program, but can provide instructors if needed
• We pay teachers a professional rate of compensation.

 Email Deb at deborah@radrobots.net