Organized by Rosadigitale, a national movement for equal opportunities in STEM professions and careers, the week 4 - 14 March 2017 hosts hundred of events where girls and women are offered chances to get their hands on..science and technology. Read more
The Open Roberta project continues the Fraunhofer-Initiative "Roberta – Learning with Robots". School of Robotics is collabvorating with Open Roberta thanks to its collaborator, Lporenzo Daidone. Lorenzo, programmin Arduino, has just develop a library - that is a collection of resources used develop software - availabe to navigate robotics kit BYOR. Read more
Costa Crociere Foundation has selected School of Robotics project "Ocean 3d (Il Mare in 3D, The Sea in 3D) as the only proposal devoted to environmental aims. Ocean 3D promotes a circular economy program based on the reuse of plastics fished out from the Lugurian Sea. Read more
The second ROBOESL conference will take place in Riga (Latvia) on May 12, 2017, hosted by the project partner University of Latvia. The RoboESL Latvia conference, and the internal partner meeting, will finalize the 10 exemplary interdisciplinary Learning Scenarios in a structured curriculum. Read more
Educational Robotics in the Makers Era. The EDUROBOTICS 2016 International conference builds on the pedagogical theories of constructivism and constructionism (Piaget, Papert) and this year focuses on “Educational Robotics in the Makers Era”. The “Educational Robotics 2016” (EduRobotics 2016) International Conference (former TRTWR) builds on a number of previously and successfully conducted international workshops. Read more
The ROBOESL international conference “Robotics-based learning interventions for preventing school failure and early school leaving ” is organised by Edumotiva (European Lab for Educational Technology). The conference explores the role of technology and educational robotics in particular as means for preventing early school leaving and school failure. It also emphasizes learning interventions and activities that support and enhance students’ creativity, challenge their imagination, provide links to real life and engage them in playful learning. Read more
The Transnational Meeting of the European SlideWiki Project will take place in Genoa, on 17 and 18 November. It will be hosted by the Genoa Research Area. The Agenda Meeting will pivot around the trials that will be carried out in all European Partners Nations to test the new Platform. Read more
Why Robots? Simply because Robots occupy the minds of everyone. Tens of thousands of school children in Europe, who may have no interest in technical subjects, change their mind as a result of these essential interactions. The interaction with robots complements the overall teaching experience and helps to motivate young people of any age to learn not only the basics of STEM, but also to direct them on to an independent exploratory, self-motivated learning path. Read more
The film, produced with the Unity engine by Unity’s Demo Team, shows just how amazing and realistic games and digital experiences can look. Unity also created custom tools for volumetric fog and motion blur, and a custom transparency shader. Read more
The aim of Open Roberta is to lower the barriers of programming for kids, teachers, and schools and to set up a open source community. Open Roberta is part of the Fraunhofer Initiative “Roberta – Learning with Robots” (www.roberta-home.de). Open Roberta and School of Robotics are carrying on their almost ten-year collaboration. Read more
