On 28 October 2020, our students went to Mars! We spent a whole day at Hamilton Space School, a designated facility and specialist curriculum to lead space education. Hamilton Secondary College is one of the two institutions in Australia (the other is Strathmore College in Melbourne) able to run the Mission to Mars STEM activity. […]
2020 was an unfortunate year for everyone. Even in Robotics, we had to run our classes online for two months and use virtual robots. In term of competitions, most of them were cancelled, a few were online, and online two were organised face to face: in South Australia and Western Australia. However, this year was […]
Did you know? By the age of six, children start to classify jobs as male and female. By 13, they rule out careers that don’t fit with gender stereotypes. And 60% of girls aspire to stereotypically ‘female’ jobs by the age of 16. In Australia, women make up 28% of the STEM workforce, with only […]
The City of West Torrens decided that Thebarton Community Centre will close until further notice, along with other libraries and centres in Adelaide. So, rather than moving the course to another location where some of the students would not be able to attend due to distance or parents’ concerns regarding COVID-19, we decided to move […]
On 29 Nov 2019, we attended the South Australian Robotics Sumo Championship. We had 8 teams out of a total of 31. After first rounds, we had 5 teams in the quarter-finals (even if we should’ve had 6). Then all four teams in the semifinals were ours. And of course, the finals. We ended up […]
Adelaide Robotics Academy is a learning destination for the Children’s University and offers the following accredited activities: Robotics, Coding, Science, Engineering. Children’s University Australia is managed by the University of Adelaide, and it offers educational experiences for children, recognising their achievements through the award of formal certificates and graduations. The model leverage’s local educational activity […]
Starting with February 2020 we will expand our curriculum by adding a new robot for advanced classes: Arduino. The benefit of using Arduino is that students will have a deeper understanding of the components, circuits, and signals that actually make technology work. And most importantly it will introduce students to text-based coding such as Python, […]
We are happy to let you know that both our teams that entered Robocup State Championship won trophies. One team received the Innovation Award and the other one won second place in the Sumo competition. Congratulations to our students, the parents and supporters who made this possible! Next year our target will be to reach […]
A new addition to our sensors will be a camera which we can use to track and follow objects for games such as soccer or shooting. It’s called Pixy, and our students will love it! Check out this video: https://www.facebook.com/161139471103832/posts/402333283651115/
You probably know Sophia, the humanoid robot built by Hanson Robotics. What you might not know is that it will have a little sister called Little Sophia. It can walk, talk, sing, play games and, like her big sister, tell jokes. Little Sophia can be programmed in Blockly and Python. The good news is that […]