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Coding For Young Students – The Next Big thing

5/9/2017

Why should we teach coding at a young age?

Around the world, students from elementary school and up are increasingly acquiring basic coding skills. Governments, educators and tech industry advocates argue that a basic understanding of coding and how electronic devices actually work is crucial nowadays. This is important for the students’ future career but also to their countries economy and tech industry.

Coding can seem intimidating or boring but if taught at a young age these assumptions can be disparaged and students can realize how creative this field is. Coding help develop problem solving skills, logical thinking, persistence, collaboration, communication and is a real empowering activity.

The earlier we introduce children to coding, the more comfortable they will be when coding will be introduced later down the line at a higher level.

 


What does leading people in the industry say?

Bill Gates

Chairman, Microsoft

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder, Facebook

Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren’t enough people who are trained and have these skills today.

will.i.am

Musician/The Black Eyed Peas and Entrepreneur

Here we are, 2013, we ALL depend on technology to communicate, to bank, and none of us know how to read and write code. It’s important for these kids, right now, starting at 8 years old, to read and write code.

Richard Branson

Founder, Virgin Group

Whether we’re fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don’t have enough people who can code. Teaching young people to code early on can help build skills and confidence and energize the classroom with learning-by-doing opportunities. I learned how to fly a hot air balloon when I was 30,000 feet up and my life was in the balance: you can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!

 


Why teach coding with a robot?

A robot is a mechanical device that can be programmed to follow a set of instructions. A robot includes a processing unit, sensors to perceive its environment, and motors and actuators to move its limbs or wheels. So, why teach coding with a robot? It makes coding even more fun! It makes coding less abstract, you actually see the result of what you coded in the real world. On the way, students learn some science, engineering and math.

Robots are already part of everyday life, but over the coming decades we will see them more and more, therefore the robotics field will continue to grow and increase in job prospects.

 


Why teach coding with Sense?

Sense is a robotic and computer programming system which allows users to explore, problem solve, and advance their computer programming abilities from just starting in visual block programming, to Python and C languages.

The sense platform can be expanded by over 45 different NeuLog sensors so that you can create solutions and codes the world has never thought of for any problem you try to overcome.

Students can program the Sense via the “RoblocklySense” programming platform which runs through your browser. It is very friendly and it is easy to create and run robotics programs.

 

Read more about Sense

 

Sense coding library

Sense Coding Library

Example programs (can be opened with the RobocklySense application).

Click on the file you want to download, then right click on the new tab and save the file. 

Sense To a wall D01
Sense To a black line D02
Sense Along black line D03
Sense Along black line and stop D04
Sense Along two black lines D05
Sense Along walls D06
Sense Forward and along walls D07
Sense To a wall and sound D08
Sense To a black line and sound D09
Sense To a wall and distance D10
Sense Tracking IR transmitter D11

 

  Want to share your own program with us? Send it to info@neulog.com  

 

 

 

sense – Is your device compatible and how to connect

Is your device compatible and how to connect

sense software
1. Download the Robockly Sense application for PCs.
2. Connect the Sense to the PC using the USB cable.
3. Run the Robockly sense application from your desktop.

Given the rapid pace of technology and change we will be publishing software updates frequently and always free of charge. Software updates will always bring enhanced functionality and utility to your Sense bot! Please check back often for updates.

 

 

What can you do with Sense

What can you do with Sense

What can students do

 

Learn coding by programming Sense to do hundreds of actions!

Examples:

  1. Movement along black line on white surface
  2. Movement along walls or in a labyrinth
  3. Autonomic car – movement in a labyrinth when other robots are also moving there.
  4. Following a moving body holding IR transmitter using tracking module.
  5. Environment monitoring and measurement robot with NeuLog sensors.
  6. Robot games such as: football, catch me if you can, fighting robots.
What can educators and parents do  
  1. Teach basic coding using Visual Block
  2. Introduce robotics
  3. Use for programming classes, robotics clubs, STEM courses and more.
  4. Teach advance programming languages as student skills grow.
What can school districts do
  1. Turn computer programming into real world challenges.
  2. Build school, district, state, national competitions.
  3. Allow students to code cutting edge technology.

A little about the Sense unit

A little about the Sense unit

Dimensions

L: 5.6” (14 cm)

W: 5.6” (14 cm)

H: 1.5” (34 cm)

W: 7.65 oz (217 g)

 

Sensors built in:

  • One bottom line detector
  • 5 IR range sensors
What can be added to Sense:
  • Battery power
  • NeuLog sensors
  • Gripper module
  • IR tracking module
  • IR transmitter
  • WiFi Python coding unit for tablets
  • C language coding unit for PC and Mac
  • Adapter for Arduino coding units

what is sense

What is Sense

Sense –  First Glance

  • A robot, that comes with a programming platform.
  • A learning how to code: Visual Block Programming.
  • Sense can use any of Neulog’s 45 sensors.

Sense to a Student

  • The opportunity to program a robot and bring code to life.

Sense to a Teacher and Parent

  • An opportunity to allow kids to program with minimal technical barriers.
  • An opportunity for kids to problem solve and engineer as soon as they open the box.
  • An opportunity to advance through computer programming languages without cost.

 

 

 

sense main

 

Sense is a robotic and computer programming system which allows users to explore, problem solve, and advance their computer programming abilities from just starting in visual block programming, to Python and C languages.

The sense platform can be expanded by over 45 different NeuLog sensors so that you can create solutions and codes the world has never thought of for any problem you try to over come.

Students can program the Sense via the “RoblocklySense” programming platform which runs through your browser.