"B. Lorenzi" Institute, Fumane (Verona): Mission to Mars (with robots)
Robotics, spatial education and global friendship, all together on February 23rd, in an international project "Mission to Mars". Read more
CNR-IEIIT: Call for Proposal, Research Grant on "autonomous robot navigation"
The CNR-IEIIT issued a Call for a Research Grant on "autonomous robot navigation". Deadline: February 3rd, 2012 Read more
E-Skills Week 2012 in Italy: In full gear!
The European Center for Women&Technology and her National Contact Points are organizing several Europeanwide activities in the frame of the e-skills week. The School of Robotics, associated of the ECWT, and its networks are applying for many interesting events in educational robotics field. Read more
"Design and build your own robot": Creativity and robotics at the Bruno Kessler Foundation
Trento, December-January 2012. The Bruno Kessler Foundation has organized for the children of the scientists, some educational activities, during the Christmas and New Year's vacations. Among them, a workshop in which children have designed and buold theur own "robotics" puppet using parts of electronics devices. Read more
Happy New Robotics Year! Very Special Greetings from School of Robotics and Philos' Academy
Students with special needs have produced this video as one of their "assignments" for the 2011 classes on educational robotics. It is their way to send you a "Happy New Year". Each robot, each tale convey their feelings, commitment, and learning. Each robot featured in this video is very special: it tells a story about our students. Read more
New courses on Scratch and robotics: Promoting Math and Science
School of Robotics' young collaborator Davide Canepa teaches educational robotics at Bearzi Institute of Udine. He is introducing Bearzi's teachers and middle school students to the programming language called "Scratch" employing Lego WeDo. With Bearzi's high school students, Davide Canepa is working with a view to the 2012 edition of UdineRobot. Read more
Educational Robotics and Interactive Whiteboard. An article by Tullia Urschitz
Tullia Urschitz (teacher of Math, Science and ICT in Fumane, Verona) was invited by the Ligurian Regional Office of the Ministry of Education and by the School of Robotics to lecture at ABCD 2011, the National Fair of Educational Technologies. Her talk was devoted to the topics of "Educational Robotics and the use of the Interactive Whiteboard". Here the summary of her intervention (in Italian). Read more
Trento, Dec. 3rd: Robotics is fun!
Trento, Dec. 3rd. Robotics hands on! A gathering of nursery and elementary school pupils with their parents, all working on robots. Assembling and programming small robots, and drawing and building "creative" robots with parts of printers, pc's and recycling material. Read more
Campus Party Granada, 12-16 of October: School of Robotics carries on two sparkling ideas.
Campus Party Millennium takes place in Granada and is a unique showcase for cutting edge technologies on the Internet. The School of Robotics has been invited to present two brilliant ideas. Read more
Pinocchio 2.0. From kindergarten to teen, educational continuity for technoscience
In 2008, Italian teachers and educational experts uploaded records from many educational robotics experiences in a new Content Management System called "Pinocchio 2.0", inspired by fictional character that firstly appeared in 1881 in a book by Carlo Collodi. Carved from a piece of pine, Pinocchio was created as a wooden puppet, but dreamt of becoming a real boy. For the kids of the world, this fictional puppet of the cartoon movie recalls the idea of the robot. Read more