2012 Creative Design Lab / Robomania Workshops

The Creative Design lab, a division of the Innovation Unit at the National Science Centre, has been conducting one-day workshops in Electronics and Robotics at schools in the Caroni, Victoria, and Naparima/Mayaro educational districts targeted at students from form three to five. The electronics workshop covers the physics of the atom, electricity and electronics, power generation, and power distribution. Students learn basic concepts then get to build and test a working loud speaker from scratch. In the robotics workshop, students learn about the science of robotics and then build and program their own autonomous robots.

Continuing until April, these workshops excite students’ interest in science by getting them involved in fun, engaging activities that bring abstract concepts to life. Students welcome the chance to have a break from the monotony of school work and to experience a different science in whole new way taught by facilitators just a few years older than themselves. What’s more the modules are tailored so that students from a wide range of ages and abilities can all learn something while having fun.

Written: January 2012