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
This European Robotics Week 2016 is going to be awesome, we are getting more and more events in each day. Central Event “Robots to the Rescue”, Amsterdam, 18-22 November. In order to celebrate the European character of the event we want to broadcast (e.g. by using the live function on Facebook) as many other events all over Europe as possible. So if you want to be broadcasted on the facebook page and live at our venue, please let us know! Read more
In the frame of the National Exhibit of Education Technology and ICT media, School of Robotics will offer many free workshops to Teachers. The subjects that will be discussed in these hands-on wp's will be educational robotics, 3D printing for educational aims, coding, and all the innovative educational tools. Read more
Didattiche 2016 is the subject of two-day Erickson conference that will be held in Rimini on 11 and 12 of November. School of Robotics has been called to carry out some workshop on educational robotics. The enrolments are sold out, but we have also a stroll, so come to visit us! Read more
In a marked shift from recommendations first adopted in 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics has lifted its recommendation discouraging all electronic media use in children under the age of 2. The new recommendations for children's media use acknowledge that some media exposure can have educational value for children as young as 18 months, but it should be high-quality programming—the AAP specifically referenced "Sesame Street," and children's programming provided by PBS. Read more
Hosted by CampuStore Area at Maker Fair Rome 2016, School of Robotics teachers and tutors will be carrying out workshops on methodologies and tools for educational robotics. One workshop deals on BYOR kit for sustaining Pogramming and Electronics; another around the application of 3D printings for schools; many others laboratories interesting educational robotics kits. Read more
During the FIRST® LEGO® League challenge 2016 "Animal Allies" teams will look into the eyes of our "Animal Allies". What might become possible when we learn to help each other? From Aug 30th, 2016 the detailed missions for the FLL Robot-Game & FLL Research Project will be published on our website. In the US, registration will be open between Apr 4th and Oct 14th, 2016. Read more
School of Robotics Honorary President, Gianmarco Veruggio will be speaking at TEDxCNR in Roma, on October 8th 2016. He will elaborate on his vision of the future of robotics, the Roboethical issues, and the challenges facing the new generation of roboticists. Read more
During the Science Festival 2016 in Genoa, the School of Robotics will be organizing two Laboratories which will be lasting the whole Festival lenght. One is inspired by Sherlock (Holmes, of course!), where participants will have to solve some puzzles and will be discovering that the blameworthy is.. a robot! The other, for kids from 4 to 7, pivots around the creation of artistic figurines inspired by machines. Read more
