Overview

Adelaide Robotics Academy is a STEM school for students between 10 and 18. We run an after-school club at Thebarton Community Centre and workshops, Professional Development (PD) for teachers, incursions, and science displays for schools, libraries, OSHC and special events in Adelaide. At Adelaide Robotics Academy, students learn Science, Technology, Engineering and Coding with a curriculum designed by Carnegie Mellon University. The syllabus includes resources, materials, competitions, and tools for EV3, DJI, Tello, Vernier, Comgrow, Creality and others. The course provides a structured sequence of building and programming activities in real-world project-based contexts. The projects are designed to get students thinking about the patterns and structure of robotics and programming and problem-solving more generally. On completion, students may sit a 70 questions exam, and if successful, they are awarded a Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University. We are the only Australian institution accredited to organise certification exams on behalf of Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy for Labview (EV-G) and EV3 Classroom. Apart from building and programming robots, we have special classes for DJI drone programming and 3D printing and modelling. Both the coding and engineering courses are based on the principles of Computational Thinking. Each year our students attend several excursions to exciting Adelaide enterprises in high tech, automation, artificial intelligence and engineering. We are the only club that competes against mainstream schools in RoboCup Junior State Championship. And we won! Four trophies in 2019 in Innovation and Sumo Bots, and three cups in 2020 for Robo Soccer. It’s fun, engaging, hands-on, and it may be the start of a career for many young people!