Robotics & Coding Programs
Early Years
8 - 12 Years
12 & Above
Creating new learning experiences to spark wonder and curiosity in children
Our Robotics and Coding programs are in partnership with ARTec; Japan’s leading Robot programming school. The lessons are designed for children to actively participate in their own learning through meaningful and purposeful play. Children shall build their knowledge through hands-on experimentation, exploration and discovery, applying their learning to real-life applications of Robots & Coding in their environment.
These highly regarded programs has been adopted in more than 40 countries worldwide and achieved numerous good design and good toy awards.
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Wow! ARTec Robotics & Coding + ART STEAM Program
Children's natural curiosity is fostered in this curriculum that combines the learning of Robotics and Coding with Art through engaging, hands-on activities that build digital competencies and boost creative confidence.
The course includes numerous activities for hands-on experimentation and exploration, allowing children to learn and grow through play. Children will participate in Build and Code activities designed to spark their interest in early Science and Engineering while also helping them develop their digital skills. In addition, they will use their imagination and experiment with a variety of materials and techniques to create works of art.
What We Provide
Lesson Plan
High quality lesson plans with comprehensive contents and detailed lesson outcomes for every lesson
Student textbooks
- Real-life applications of the technology
- Building and programming to teach Robotics knowledge.
Applied learning missions after every lesson
- Hone studentsʼ newly-acquired knowledge and to exercise their digital competencies
- Cultivate critical and inventive thinking, promote collaboration and communication skills and ignite their curiosity to become self-directed learners
Programs:
Program Name: Wow! ARTec Early Years Robotics and Coding + ART STEAM Program
Description: Children's natural curiosity is fostered in this curriculum that combines the learning of Robotics and Coding with Art through engaging, hands-on activities that build digital competencies and boost creative confidence. The course includes numerous activities for hands-on experimentation and exploration, allowing children to learn and grow through play. Children will participate in Build and Code activities designed to spark their interest in early Science and Engineering while also helping them develop their digital skills. In addition, they will use their imagination and experiment with a variety of materials and techniques to create works of installation art to interact with the Robots.
Level (Age): 5 to 7 years old
Session Duration: 60 minutes
No of Sessions: Current : 48 Lessons/ Ongoing developments
Fee to Parents: $40 to $45 per lesson
Coding Software: Icon Programming
Hardware: ARTec Early Years Robotics and Coding Set + WowART Materials Set
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ARTec Early Years Robotics and Coding STEM Program
The integrated curricula of Science, Engineering, Numeracy and Technology nurtures children's cognitive abilities to think critically and inventively, develop resilience in problem solving and at the same time promote their digital competencies while having fun building robots and learning to code. The course offers lots of opportunities for hands-on experimentation and exploration, allowing children to learn and build their knowledge through play.
Education
What We Offer
This course offers
Puzzle Play
Building Your Robots
Coding Your Robots
Puzzle Play
Builds Numeracy Proficiency through purposeful play.
Building Your Robots
Robotics is a fun way to engage children in learning about early science, engineering and maths and get an understanding od how these subjects are linked together.
Coding Your Robots
Programming your robots to carry out tasks and experimenting with it, makes the learning of coding enjoyable and entertaining. At the same time, it develops logical reasoning and critical thinking skills.
Programs:
Program Name: ARTec Early Years Robotics and Coding STEM Program
Description: This integrated curricula of Science, Engineering, Numeracy and Technology nurtures early years children's cognitive abilities to think critically and inventively, develop resilience in problem solving and at the same time promote their digital competencies.
Children shall build motorized and mechanical Robots, learning simple Science and Engineering principles through the discovery of the workings of motors, levers, linkages, pulleys and gears.
For the Coding lessons, children shall build their Robots and learn to design and write “simple to complex” codes and to understand different forms of inputs and outputs. In this program, they shall learn to code movements, lights and sounds, touch sensors, button controls and IR Photo Reflectors for the Robots to carry out tasks and accomplish different missions.
Children shall also engage in puzzle play, learning to recognize relationships and patterns and developing spatial intelligence (i.e. direction, position, balance) through the 12 genre of puzzle games.
The course offers lots of opportunities for hands-on experimentation and exploration, allowing children to learn and build their knowledge through play.
Level (Age): 5 to 7 years old
Session Duration: 60 minutes
No of Sessions: 144 lessons
Coding Software: Icon Programming
Hardware: ARTec Early Years Robotics and Coding STEM Set
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GO! TechUp Virtual 3D Programming
Online Robot Coding tutorials and challenges enables students to apply their knowledge and extend their leaning from home.
The virtual 3D gamification of ARTec robots with embedded Physics engine that ensures realistic visualisation of codes.
This Home Learning Extensions are available to all students enrolled in the ARTec Innovator Academy.
Education
What We Offer
ArtecRobo was developed for children who have no prior experience with programming and robotics.
The curricula help to cover the following specific goals:
Understanding what an “algorithm” is
To understand how to design and write simple programs to accomplish specific goals and to work on simple forms of inputs and outputs.
Understanding selections in programs such as IF and IF-ELSE statements, Boolean logic and variables in programs.
Understanding the means of solving problems by breaking them into smaller parts and solving those parts first.
To understand “sequence”, “repetition”, “logical reasoning” to be able to explain algorithms and predict the behaviors of simple programs.
Being able to design and debug programs to accomplish specific goals after the completion of training.
Understanding arrays, nested selection/loops and functions in programs.
Being able to identify and define authentic problems and plan activities/projects to develop programming solutions.
Learning and Innovations Skills
“Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as the skills that separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not.” (P21. Partnership for 21st Century Learning)
Special attention is given to:
Creativity and Innovation
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Communication and Collaboration
Information and Technology Skills
“Today we live in a technology and media-suffused environment with: 1) access to an abundance of information, 2) rapid changes in technology tools, and 3) the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on an unprecedented scale. To be effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers must be able to create, evaluate, and effectively utilize information, media, and technology.”. (P21. Partnership for 21st Century Learning).
Special attention is given to:
Information Literacy
ICT Literacy
Education
Competitions
National Robotics Competition
Since 1999, Science Centre Singapore has been organizing The National Robotics Competition (NRC) with support from the Ministry of Education, various partners and sponsors. To date, the competition has attracted more than 60,000 participants and 240,000 supporters.
The ARTec Robots is selected in the Preschool category in the NRC 2023 edition.
Visit this page to learn more: https://www.science.edu.sg/for-schools/competitions/national-robotics-competition
National Robotics Challenge
Directed by an independent committee, the UniversalRobotics Challenge is a more traditional programmable robotics tournament. The objective of the URC is to inspire children's interest in the field of robotics technology as they acquire new problem-solving skills through teamwork.
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ARTec Innovator Academy Robot Coding School Levels 1 to 8
The ARTec Innovator Academy Robot Coding program is an award-winning program, voted by parents and teachers to be the top coding program for children 8 years old and above in Japan. The program is used in more than 40 countries worldwide, supported and acknowledged by education ministries in France, Hungary, Korea, Australia and adopted in national school Robotics and Coding curricula in Japan, Mexico and several other countries.
The lessons are designed to be progressive learning for students. Its high quality and well structured lesson breaks down complex solutions into easy to understand steps, complemented with real life application of the technology to ensure an enjoyable and fun learning experience. Students in these levels will learn to code robots with lights, sound and movement sensors and apply them to real life scenarios. Construct and automate robotic arms and mechanical robots to carry out tasks and build and code different games amongst many other other applications.
Education
What We Offer
We offer the following key components in 80 90-minute lessons:
Detailed teacher's guidelines for every lesson
Student textbooks to teach real robotics knowledge
Applied learning missions after every lesson
Level-Up Learning
Building robots with diverse mechanisms teaches children not only how to make robots, but how they work and how to apply their knowledge. Each lesson steps up the content, keeping students engaged and having fun.
Engaging Projects
Our program offers a wide variety of robots, from the traffic signals and cars you can see in real life to two-player games which are not only fun to make, but broaden interest in the world around you.
Mastery Course
Adds an additional 18 months' worth of advanced robotics challenges. Focusing on the three major robotics engineering fields of sensing, software and mechanics, this curriculum offers a well-rounded education in STEAM. The Mastery Course is highly recommended for kids interested in a career in science and engineering.
Customisable lessons to suit students learning needs and objectives
Level 1 : Coding lights, sound sensors + Accelerometer (motion sensors) in practical real life applications.
Level 2 : Calculating and coding car movements and sensors to self drive.
Level 3 : Coding sensors and servometers and applying them to build and automate the Robotic Arm
Level 4 : Combining the above coding knowledge to build different robots to carry out various tasks.
Customisable lessons to suit students learning needs and objectives
Level 5 : Building and coding Mechanical Robots to perform different challenges
Level 6 : Using Servometers to build different types of Walkbots.
Level 7 : Building and coding different games
Level 8 : Combining different sensors to interact with the Servomotors in robots. Code more complex concepts to mimic the Robots to real life applications.
Customisable lessons to suit students learning needs and objectives
Level 9 : Learn to apply coding of sensors in real life applications I.e. Speed traps, Automatic gates, robot pet and making noodles.
Level 10 : Learn to apply codes to make a barcode scanner, a safe with secret Pin and Touch Jukebox with lights.
Level 11 : Build and code different Mechanical Robots to perform tasks.
Level 12 : Working with more complex codes to model real life applications.
Programs:
Program Name: ARTec Innovator Academy Robot Coding School (Levels 1 to 8)
Description: ARTec Robot Coding School high quality curricula are adopted into the Japanese schools national coding curricula for its comprehensive and progressive contents. The well structured lesson plans breaks down complex solutions into easy to understand steps to ensure an enjoyable and fun learning and teaching experience for both students and teachers.
The lessons consists of real-life applications of the technology and the applied learning mission after every lesson hones studentsʼ newly-acquired knowledge and to exercise their digital competencies.
Students develops their creative problem-solving capabilities, cultivate critical and inventive thinking, promote collaboration and communication skills as they apply their knowledge and work together to achieve mission goals.
Level (Age): 8 to 9 years old
Session Duration: 60 minutes
No of Sessions: 96 lessons (8 Levels x 12 lessons per level)
Coding Software: Block Programming
Hardware: ARTec Innovator Academy Robot Coding Set
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ARTec Robo 2.0 Artificial Intelligence Program
The New ARTec Robo 2.0 AI Program utilizes the foremost standards and requirements of school AI curricula in Japan, United Kingdom and other developed countries to benchmark the learning outcomes of the program.
The curricula sets up student’s understanding of the essentials on how Artificial intelligence today is used in modern machinery through the practice of programming and robotics. Concepts such as sequences, conditionals, and loops listed in the standards and requirements are explained in details for students to better understand the concept and understand its necessity for usage in programming.
Education
What We Offer
We offer the following key components in 80 90-minute lessons:
Hands-on Experience
Programming Skills
Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking Skills
Beginner Course
This program is designed for students who are new to programming and robotics. The level covers the basics of programming concepts, such as sequences, loops, and conditionals, and the fundamentals of robotics.
Intermediate Course
This program covers advanced topics such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. Students will learn to build and program complex robots, and apply AI concepts to solve real-world problems.
Advanced Course
This program delves into complex subjects like deep learning, neural networks, and advanced AI algorithms. Through this program, students can develop the skills required to build and program sophisticated robots capable of performing intricate tasks.
| Introductory Level | Intermediate Level | Advanced Level |
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Chapter 1Learn how to integrate AI technology into programming using Google's Teachable Machine. This chapter focuses on introducing how to use image and voice recognition on Teachable Machine |
Chapter 2Make a Smart Light that detects your voice and turns on he light. In this chapter, students will learn how to integrate voice recognition with programming and robotics. |
Chapter 5Make a Smart Car where the car detects signals and signs. The car will act according to the detected signal and signs. Later in the chapter, students will control the Smar Car with voice recognition. |
Chapter 3Build a Face Recognition Gate where the gate opens when it detects the face of a person registered. Students will learn how to integrate image recognition with programming and robotics. |
Chapter 6Make a Rock, Paper, and Scissors Robot and play the game against the robot! Students will learn how to program a robot that will use randomness to pick from rock, paper, and scissors. |
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Chapter 4Build a Garbage Segregation Robot where the robot will segregate the garbage to the designated bin accordingly. Students will learn more advanced programming with image recognition. |
Chapter 7Create your own Pet Robot with programs you want your pet to do! This chapter focuses on incorporating all the skills and knowledge gained over the chapters to create original and unique programs for student's pet robots. |
Programs:
Program Name: ARTec Robo 2.0 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Program
Description: The ARTec Robo 2.0 AI Program incorporates the most recent national school coding curricula standards and requirements in Japan and United Kingdom. The program focuses on the learning and understanding of the use of Artificial Intelligence in modern machinery through the applications of Coding and Robotics. These lessons develops coding concepts such as sequences, conditionals and loops and apply these to real life examples that incorporates AI technology.
Learn to integrate AI technology into programming using Google’s Teachable Machine. Develop robotic applications that uses voice and image recognition and learn advance programming to build and program simple interactive robots.
Level (Age): 11 years old
Session Duration: 60 minutes
No of Sessions: Current: 24 Lessons/ Ongoing developments
Fee to Parents: $40 to $45 per lesson
Coding Software: TBA
Hardware: Robo 2.0 AI Set
Program Name: ARTec Robo 2.0 Python IOT Programming
Description : Learn coding basics and the fundamentals of Python syntax and object-oriented programming. Code sensors and LED displays to make simple games, robots and instruments.
Advance to build more complex Python syntax and learn new, high level coding concepts and apply them to build videos games, simultaneous use of multiple sensors and motors and parallel processing.
Level (Age): 12 years old
No of Sessions: Current : 48 Lessons/ Ongoing developments
Coding Software: TBA
Hardware: Robo 2.0 Python IOT Programming Set
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ARTec Robo 2.0 Python IOT Program
The ARTec Robo 2.0 AI Set meets current standards in Japan, the UK, and other developed countries' school curricula. It teaches students about Artificial Intelligence and its modern applications in machinery through programming and robotics. The curriculum covers key programming concepts, including sequences, conditionals, and loops, explaining their importance in detail.
Education
What We Offer
We offer the following key components in 80 90-minute lessons:
Hands-on Experience
Programming Skills
Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking Skills
Beginner Course
This program is designed for students who are new to programming and robotics. The level covers the basics of programming concepts, such as sequences, loops, and conditionals, and the fundamentals of robotics.
Intermediate Course
This program covers advanced topics such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. Students will learn to build and program complex robots, and apply AI concepts to solve real-world problems.
Advanced Course
This program delves into complex subjects like deep learning, neural networks, and advanced AI algorithms. Through this program, students can develop the skills required to build and program sophisticated robots capable of performing intricate tasks.
