Deb Vloedman, M.Ed., is a teacher and specialist in Robotics education, thinking skills and curriculum development. She has been an elementary school classroom teacher, gifted support teacher, curriculum supervisor, science textbook writer for Silver, Burdett, and Ginn, and an Educational Consultant for Creative Publications. Over 30 years of her career has been spent inspiring students with fun and engaging lessons.
In 2012 she was asked to develop and teach an extracurricular robotics club for Ithan Elementary School in Radnor Township, PA. This program became wildly popular with parents and students. In 2016 Deb founded Rad Robots as a business that brings quality robotics to schools, libraries and summer camps in the tri-state area around Philadelphia and beyond.
In 2020, Deb and her team developed and trademarked RadRobots™, a unique way to teach robotics and coding to children. They have created comprehensive curriculum with accompanying storybooks, learning mats, and other materials that are fun and educational.
In 2023, RadRobots™ launched Robotics in a Box where libraries, preschools, and other programs across the country can offer RadRobots™ robotics programs at their locations.
.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 a
.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.
RadRobots™ classes are specially designed to develop Computational Thinking skills in both BOYS AND GIRLS while engaging them with fun robotic challenges and programming concepts.
Students learn robotics and physical computing 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 RadRobots™ curriculum teaches Robotics, Tangible Coding and Graphical Programming in a Computational Thinking framework using hands-on time with various types of robots.
Our innovative RadRobots™ curriculum teaches Robotics, Tangible Coding and Graphical Programming in a Computational Thinking framework using hands-on time with various types of robots.
The program is spiraled so a Kindergartener can start the program and learn new concepts and use different robots each year through sixth 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, summer camps and other groups who want to bring robotics programs to their students.
Email Deb at deborah@radrobots.net
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