Program your own LEGO Mars rovers to navigate, explore, and solve challenges.

In this session with Brian Egles, participants will work in pairs to program a small LEGO Mars rover. Paricipants will begin by programming their robots to move around the environment and behaviour autonomously, detecting and avoiding obstacles, using sensors.

Once participants are confident with the basics, they will tackle a series of hands-on challenges inspired by real-life scenarios, including life aboard the International Space Station and robotic exploration of Mars. These challenges are drawn from the UK and international 'First LEGO League' challenge, run annually by the IET and other global partners.

For children who have just completed Years 7, 8 and 9 this term - please book based on your child’s current/most recent school year, not their new year group from September. This typically corresponds to children aged around 11–14 years old. We reserve the right to refund or deny entry to those who are not in the correct year group.

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Image credit: Tim Mitchell

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