Workshops

Holiday workshops: LEGO robotic explorers (ages 11–14)

Put your building, coding and problem solving skills to use by programming a mars explorer based on a LEGO robot.

Students build a robot with LEGO
Image credit: Tim Mitchell

In this session with Brian Egles, you will work in pairs to program a small LEGO mars rover. You will first learn how your robot can be programmed to move around and to behave autonomously to avoid obstacles using sensors.

You will then solve a number of problems based on life on the international space station and on mars exploration. These are taken from the UK and international “First LEGO League” challenge run annually by the IET and other global partners.

This workshop is strictly for 12–14 year-olds and will include a 30 minute lunch break. Students should bring lunch and a drink. We reserve the right to refund or deny entry to those who are not in this age range.

Refunds can only be issued for tickets cancelled at least two weeks (14 calendar days) in advance of the event date. Please note that this supersedes our normal event terms and conditions. Please also note that Eventbrite adds a small booking fee to the amount paid for each ticket option.

About Brian Egles

Brain Egles has been running STEM activity days and workshops in schools since 2010 after 25 years in industry working in engineering, IT and logistics. He has also worked in partnership with the National STEM centre delivering the  “Tim Peake  Primary Project” and the “Polar Explorer Programme” in schools.



Brian delivers robotics workshops to thousands of school students each year. He has also supported activities with younger students because robotics is such a rich domain for learning about science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and because robotics will change society and the world we all live in.

About our workshops

Holiday workshops at the Royal Institution give students a hands-on experience of STEM topics (science, technology, engineering, maths) beyond what they learn at school. Working in groups or pairs, students will get hands-on to complete activities, challenges or projects which help them look deeper at the subject they are exploring. These workshops don’t follow the school curriculum but instead show students the many real world uses of STEM topics, expanding their horizons beyond the classroom to see the amazing possibilities science can give you. Sessions are led by experts from across industry and academia who will share with the students their excitement and knowledge of their areas of expertise.

For any queries regarding this workshop please email events@ri.ac.uk.

Support to attend holiday workshops

The Potential Trust may be able to offer financial assistance to enable children to participate in Ri events and activities if this would otherwise be financially difficult. Please contact Denise Yates, or at their new email address here

 

 

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