The goal of the ROBBO Club is to expand children's understanding of robotics and provide full-fledged opportunities for technical creativity, and for this, the ROBBO Club uses an individual approach to classes.

Training takes place in small groups, up to 10 children. So the teacher turns out to pay attention to each student individually, help to deal with incomprehensible moments, and answer private questions.

In addition to the basic program of 5 disciplines (robotics, programming, microelectronics and smart home, circuitry, 3D modeling and 3D printing), each student has the opportunity to study the area of interest in more depth - a variable program.

To do this, an individual training route is compiled for each student, according to which the student receives the necessary and interesting detailed knowledge on the chosen topic:

• Scratch game programming
• quadcopter programming
• Minecraft programming
• development of BEAM robots

Classes are available to all students of the ROBBO Club, with any level of knowledge of robotics and programming.

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The laboratory consists of a board with sensors and programmable sensors, which is packed in a durable transparent cartridge so that children can see the contents and understand the microelectronic part

The robotic platform is a modular system that can be changed at will. It has magnetic pads so that children can attach sensors themselves: photoresistors, touch sensors, lines and any other

A 3D printer will help your child turn their fantasies into reality. Children draw a model and use a printer to turn it into a real 3D plastic object.

The ROBBO circuitry set is needed to teach the basics of electronics. The kit consists of various electronic components that are easily connected to the Arduino microcontroller. Along with the kit comes a beginner's guide "Building Robots with Arduino" with which you can understand the basics of circuitry and electronics on your own.

With this set, children learn the basics of electronics and circuitry. In a playful way, children get acquainted with the structure of the world around them, master the laws of physics and electronics in practice.

The training itself is initially conducted in the Scratch programming language - adapted and easy for children to understand. On it, children learn how to create their first cartoons, computer games and write full-fledged programs for the movement of robots. Scratch helps kids think, analyze and develop their imagination.

Generally, people would naturally resist novelties and hardly bring them into their lives ever. Even harder, should they admit any solutions that facilitate others’ activities, especially if the latter involve studies. A student is supposed to complete a work on their own, be that a thesis or a coursework, in order to get the precious knowledge. It is the goal of education, in fact.

At the same time, the technologies inevitably invade and capture our being, so sometimes it is rather useful to find a way to adapt them as a tool, rather than neglecting or even strictly denying. We in ROBBO are sure that the faster and agiler we can move towards them, the more pleasant and convenient the integration process shall be. Hardly would someone use beads for counting nowadays, yet some time ago accepting a calculator might also have been a challenge for certain mates.

An advanced search engine of the future

Now selecting the best tools for our activities, we should admit the neural networks like ChatGPD can partly replace the existing search engines, or even displace them after time. Given the search engines’ sabotage and decreasing of the search results relevance, this trend looks quite possible.

However, should the searchers improve their skills of communicating with the network therefore. It is crucial that the search queries are surgically precise for the system to perform correctly. One must formulate the topic, keywords and descriptors unequivocally, in order to get the proper result.

A hands-free solution

My older mates may remember how we collected materials for our studies a few decades ago. Imagine spending a half of a day visiting a library, aiming to find any fundamental matter to complete a paper. Nowadays, it should take several minutes to find anything with Google, and then way longer to filter the information and tailor it for our purpose.

Having the automatic transmission in a car, we are more flexible when driving (please, keep both hands on the steering wheel!). With automatic tempo adjustment, a Dj can pay more attention to the music and the dancefloor, rather than matching the tracks to mix up. Consequently, neural nets are promising to take over the ‘technical’ part of studies and clear more space for doing essential tasks, expressing creativity and thus getting more benefit from the education.

How to adjust education

As the neural networks become smarter, it is obviously a challenge to rearrange the process of education, so that it is still effective for students and provides them with necessary skills and capabilities.

Probably, the core solution is about creating an environment where students would be keen on doing practical things and applying their resourcefulness 100%. And a project-based educational approach is one of the options therein.

When teaching STEM, robotics and programming, in ROBBO, we have students divided by small groups to carry out their projects. The tasks they do go far beyond the capabilities of a neural network, so it can help make a part of a project — write a text, draw an image or make a diagram — but never complete the whole project. When doing teamwork, each student in ROBBO has their special role, so one of the roles may become about communicating with neural networks thereafter.

Hence, ROBBO stands for the neural network as a promising instrument in the hands of a human. Supplementing our natural intelligence, it can carry the burden of monotonous and time-consuming content-based work, freeing our hands for something more fruitful and morally satisfying. Yet, like any sophisticated tool, it requires special training for a person to interact with. So the ability to communicate with a neural network is about to join lots of vacancy descriptions quite shortly.

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