Apprentices will learn the fundamentals of simple structures by creating scaffolding and bridges in this very hands-on mission. Learning by tinkering is the objective and along the way apprentices will develop their fabrication skills.
Author: Hank Horkoff
In this mission, apprentices will learn fundamental robotic skills as they create their own robot that reacts to coded instructions while learning how to trouble shoot problems along the way.
Let’s get building!
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Build to Solve Intro
Steamoji’s “Build to Solve” program compliments and enriches your child’s school studies by exposing them to new technologies in fabrication, physical computing, engineering and digital arts. With these foundational skills, students are then challenged with problems and encouraged to imagine, create and improve their own solutions.
This mission is available virtually over Zoom or at any local Steamoji academy.
Let’s get building!
A few years ago I travelled to Florence with my wife and had the opportunity to visit the Leonardo da Vinci Museum. The breadth of Da Vinci’s ‘maker’ skills was striking.
At Steamoji, our mission is to teach children ‘hard’ maker skills around fabrication, physical computing, engineering, digital arts and coding as well as ‘soft’ Steamoji skills to develop a maker, build-to-solve, mindset. Part of that mission is to celebrate makers of all ages, of all skill levels and across all times. With that in mind, we have designed 4 ‘house teams’ across our 10 different achievement levels and given them names inspired by great makers of the past century: Thomas Edison, Grace Hopper, Steve Jobs, and Nikolai Tesla. Additionally, we wanted to choose one day out of the year where all our academies could come together and celebrate the maker mindset. It seemed appropriate to use today, Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday – April 15th.
So, Happy Steamoji Day!