Neopost Technologies in Drachten has provided a fully automatic packing machine to pack the robots. Pupils from elementary school ‘het Mozaeik’ in Drachten are helping. From Thursday, September 7, elementary school in the municipalities of Smallingerland, Opsterland and Oost- en Weststellingwerf can expect the robot.
Invitees
Especially for invited guests, a program has been organized in cooperation with students from the elementary school in Drachten. They ensure that peers throughout the province receive a robot at their school. In addition to students, the following administrators are present: deputy Sander de Rouwe (province of Fryslân), alderman Roel Haverkort (Smallingerland), from the umbrella organization for primary education in Fryslân Erik Rietkerk (CBO Fryslân) and Albert Helder (BDOF) and Kor Visscher, chairman Innovatiecluster Drachten.
The project
415 elementary school in Fryslân will receive a robot that children can assemble themselves and control and program using an Arduino ‘heart’ processor. Each school will receive a teaching package with it. A support program for the lessons is currently being worked on with vocational education in Fryslân. In addition, a working group has started to give the EDU robot a permanent place in the learning line ‘Computational Thinking’. In two shifts in 2017, the robots will be distributed to all Frisian elementary schools until all schools have their own EDU robot. In early 2018, a big celebration event will be organized to bring all schools together with their EDU robots. Here the children can show what they have learned their own robot. Read more at EDU Robots.