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Robot Academy LLC

Interactive Online Lessons

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Solve Real-World Engineering Challenges By Building With LEGO And Coding With Scratch Or Python Don’t just build cool things. Build cool things that really work! Our world-class instructors demonstrate each challenge interactively, along with the key engineering concepts that students will be utilizing. Our curriculum is hands-on, evidence-based, and designed to inspire countless hours of independent inventing/coding. We aren’t just teaching skills – we aim to jumpstart an extracurricular hobby and ignite a lifelong passion for STEM.  Ages 7-14 Learn & Play Online (And Offline) With Like-Minded Peers

The Live Interactive aspect of our lessons enables students to: a) Share LEGO robot ideas, tips & tricks b) Get help with their robotics engineering projects so that they don’t get stuck or discouraged c) Our instructors are experienced with LEGO MINDSTORMS, LEGO Spike Prime, Arduino LEGO Robot, mBot Neo or mBot2   NEW: Build/Program At Home With Our Robot Academy Arduino LEGO Robot

For 1/3 the price of a LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics set (although we teach with those too!) you can get our Arduino LEGO robot that has the same sensors, uses the same programming languages (Scratch and Python), and is compatible with all the LEGO and LEGO TECHNIC parts you have at home thanks to our custom modifications. Comprehensive and Engaging STEM / STEAM learning has never been this fun, easy, or cost-effective!

Two Options for At-Home Instruction: Private Online Lessons FIRST LEGO League Competition Advising

January 1, 2024 - January 2, 2024

$70 / session

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January 1, 2024


starts: January 1, 2024

ends: January 2, 2024

December 25, 2023

January 9, 2023


starts: January 9, 2023

ends: December 9, 2023

January 2, 2023

January 1, 2024


starts: January 1, 2024

ends: January 2, 2024

December 25, 2023

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Our mission is to provide high quality robotics curricula to schools, and to put smiles on the faces of young LEGO-fans. Just ask the thousands of students who’ve graduated from our programs, many of whom now have promising careers as scientists and engineers. Robot Academy, now a prominent woman-owned EdTech company with partners across the world, was founded in 2006 by a team that won an international robotics championship two years in a row. They retired their team and created Robot Academy to pass on their knowledge.  Michael Vawter (known now by our fans as ‘The Robot Guy’) shares his secrets to robotics success in the Robot Academy video curriculum. Michael was the lead roboticist for a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team called the MindStorm Troopers. His team was the first ever to win 1st place Robot Performance at the FLL World Festival two years in a row (’05 and ’06). Michael was later invited to serve as a Tech Judge at the World Festival the very next year (the youngest ever, at that time), and has continued to serve as a judge for international, national, and state LEGO Robotics championships ever since. Michael has been featured in Popular Science Magazine, Columbus CEO Magazine and the National Gallery for Young Inventors. He published peer-reviewed psychophysics research at Denison University in 2011 and went on to earn a masters in entrepreneurship and innovation. In his ongoing career as a robotics teacher, Michael helps students and teachers to analyze and solve technological problems more creatively by integrating their right-brain and left-brain capacities. Michael designed Robot Academy’s Arduino LEGO Robot, as well as the LEGO mBot2, and is committed to ensuring that Robot Academy is at the cutting edge of STEM EdTech. Gail Vawter, former Education Director for a fortune 500 company and co-coach of the world champion MindStorm Troopers robotics team, expanded the curriculum for use in schools as a turn-key solution, transforming Robot Academy into an EdTech company. Gail holds degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Denison University, as well as an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University. She has worked in the IT and EdTech industries for over 20 years, and her passion is to help young students get excited about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). As a teacher and coach of student science teams, she has won numerous national and global awards with FLL, NSTA/Toshiba ExploraVision, Christopher Columbus Awards, NASA Space Day, US Army’s eCybermission, and more. Her teams’ accomplishments have been recognized by the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives via honorary resolutions. Gail shares her keys to success with Invention Competitions in her SMART Solution curriculum (Module D of the Video Curriculum). Pictured below is when Michael, Michelle and Mark were inducted into the National Gallery for Young Inventors, the only nationally recognized Student Inventor Hall of Fame. Their invention, the Nanomist: a nanotechnology treatment for diabetes, won numerous national awards before being inducted into the Hall of Fame.  As president and owner, Gail has revolutionized our reach and distribution. Robot Academy is now an authorized MakeBlock and xTool distributor for U.S.A. We currently offer on-site camps and events, at-home curriculum kits, online lessons, and turn-key video curriculum solutions for schools. Robot Academy sells STEAM curriculum, robots, laser cutters and engravers to schools, homes and businesses nationwide.

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