On Friday 6th November 2015 Mr James and Mrs White attended the http://amazingict.co.uk/ Ohbot Robot training course with Richard Smith and Dan Warner. This was the world’s first ever Ohbot Robot course and Mr James and Mrs White were shown how to build the Ohbot robots and then how to programme them. The two new Grange Park robots have been named GP 1 (Blue Male Robot) and GP 2 (Wooden Female Robot).
Most robots in primary schools are floor based turtles. It’s been like this since the invention of Logo in the 1960s. Although turtles are great, there’s a whole world of creative possibilities that are beyond them. The Ohbot creators think children should have access to a creative robot system that is modelled on themselves, that they can program to talk, display emotions, act, react and solve real world problems.
Ohbot have developed a kit robot that primary children can assemble in an hour, connect to a computer and bring to life by scripting programs using easy drag-block software modelled on Scratch.
The sequence of learning-through-making projects will challenge our children to turn Ohbot into a story teller, a street performance poet, teacher, actor or helper. Our key stage 2 children will be introduced to key programming concepts including sequences, repetition, selection and variables through applying them to make Ohbot work. This is tailored to address the demands of the Computer science elements within the new curriculum for Computing.
We can’t wait to introduce the children to our new Grange Park family members this half term.
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Looking forward to seeing how they’ll be used with the children! Welcome to the team GP1 & GP2!
How did you get it
these look really cool
I’m excited that were using them next week
The robots look really good and fun to use i woult trie them some time.