A kid learns programming by reading instructions to "Robot Grace" for how to make a PB&J sandwich

A young kid playing with cubelets in the Robotic Sampler room

"Tommy", the robot that they took to the worlds event.At another station in the same room, a woman is showing two first graders how she directs a Lego vehicle on a track using a computer as two other little boys play with KEVA planks. In the next room over, DRI Nevada Robotics has an interactive game involving sensory cubelets designed to help people Think, Act, and Sense.You guys can go to another station, the attendant jokes to two elementary school-age boys who have been playing with the cubelets for quite a while. She adds, I always tell parents, you have a Christmas list going.

This activity appeals mostly to elementary school kids, but the volunteer says that some middle schoolers and the occasional parent who wants to practice some engineering comes over here as well, she smiles. Across the cubelet station, 610-year-olds are playing with remote control cars, zipping them around on a track.Wandering into the next room, a couple of kids are coloring at the Robot Art station and others are playing with oversized magnets, launching wooden balls down a rollercoaster line, and placing little plastic parachuter people into a vertical flute and watching them shoot up. The Shop next to DaVincis Corner is full of people, kids and parents using reflective sticker tape, cardboard rolls, and other materials to build robots and rockets.And on the lower level, a volunteer named Grace is in the Blue Party Room at the Program A Human Robot to Make a PBJ Sandwich activity. This human robot relies on detailed written instructions to successfully make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, allowing kids (and their parents) to physically see where they went wrong in their coding when Grace does exactly what they tell her to do.Local kids and families had a field day playing with robots, with all activities carrying an educational undertone. Itll be interesting to see what this generation of Northern Nevadans does twenty years from now.

"Bob", the robot that won the state championship for the VC Silver Circuits

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