Nov 24 2017
As education is a fundamental right of every child. QtPi Robotics believes that 'Robotics is for all'.
Having that has a vision on 22 Nov 2017, QtPi team organised a day event for first generation children who have privilege to have free education at Divine Mercy School, Bengaluru. Children of standard 7th, 8th and 9th participated in a day event that witnessed building RC Car (Remote Control Car) using QtPi building blocks, electronic components like sensors, programming like drag & drop, designed an app to run the robot that was designed.
When children were quizzed to know if they could build one such robot, most of them weren't confident. This apprehension seem to evade as they were involved in designing the RC Car and curiosity is something took them forward to begin programming. In the end children presented their learnings to other groups. The event was witnessed by Fr. Gerard and teachers.
QtPi believe in 'Top-Down' approach in learning robotics that has 'hands-on' and is 'fun-filled'. The workshops are aimed for children 6-16 ideally, however its open for other age groups. Children are engaged allowing the creative output with unlimited possibilities (designs) using QtPi building blocks. QtPi believes in 'how to think and not what to think'. Because of this unlimited possibilities children go through a process of ideate, experiment, build project, test and presents their work. Through this process they are introduced to learning process - Design, Electronics, Software and Integration.