The Final Contest of the FIRST® LEGO® League Italia (FLL) takes place at Rovereto Palasport "A.Marchetti" on 11 and 12 of March 2016. 28 teams are going to participate, coming from the Italian Interregional Qualifications (Trento, Genova, Pistoia, and Catania). Read more
The Robot@Expo project deals with the history of automation in agriculture and is run by some middle schools of PIacenza and Cuneo. In Piacenza on February 6th 2016 opens up the project exhbit presenting the students'works. More than 500 students of Piacenza schools were involved in the project workshops. Read more
We’re not talking trash – we’re cleaning it up! We’re not talking trash – we’re cleaning it up! In the 2015 FIRST® LEGO® League TRASH TREKSM Challenge, 290,000 children ages 9 to 16* from over 80 countries will explore the fascinating world of trash. From collection, to sorting, to smart production and reuse, there is more to your trash than meets the eye. Join FIRST LEGO League teams on a Trash Trek to discover the hidden (or not so hidden) world of trash! Read more
The Settimo Torinese Library and the School of Robotics open the enrolling call for two days of course on educational Robotics with Lego EV3 robotics kit. It is Lego Academy Certifies course held bt Emanuele Micheli. Read more
School of Robotics Emanueel Micheli is going to give a talk at the Erickson Conference on "The Quality of School inclusion". Micheli will present some case studies where the use of robotics kit and of the humanoid robot NAO have improved the learning abilities of SEN students. School of Robotics is working, as partner of the Europole, in the EDUROB project. Read more
The National Network of Educational Robotics - whose Leading Manager is the San Giorgio Nauticial School of Genoa - helds the last course devoted to robotics for education. The Network participants are several schools of primary and secondary education interested to use robots supporting STEM education. Next steps are the Network application to national and European projects, and its growth and development at national level. Read more
Talent Garden Genoa and the School of Robotics make a fresh start for the new series of laboratories with robots. Some of the novelties: Vampires and Bats build with Lego bricks; Clocks and Time Travels. Some of the robots and tools to be used: Lego EV3, Makey Makey, Little Bits. Read more
The Genoa Researchers Night takes place in the Old Port on September 25th. European Researcher's' night, as from its first edition in 2006, is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) action, under the Horizon 2020 specific programme "Excellent science"; it consists of a pan-European event taking place on the last Friday night of September. Read more
The comprehensive school Carlo Piaggia is leading a new course dedicated to educational robotics, the School of Robotics is one of the organizers. SDR will be present with two interventions Emanuele Micheli on educational robotics in terms of teaching and use of Lego Mindstorms at primary and secondary levels. Read more
At the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan will host an international conference on special education and new technologies. School Robotics organizes two workshops within the conference dedicated to the use of humanoid robotics with autistic children. Read more
