Charterhouse Go Lab to begin with robotics
The Go Lab is a space that allows for the cultivation of creative minds among children.
Charterhouse’s Go Lab has already been working with 3D printing, laser cutting, and programming but aims to begin basic robotics by the end of the year.
The Go Lab is an innovative classroom that provides learners from Grade 1 to Grade 7 the opportunity to undertake new challenges to further their creativity and abilities. The Go Lab launched at Charterhouse and many Advtech schools around the country earlier this year, with the hope of furthering learners’ abilities from as young an age as possible.
The Go Lab is also run in accordance with a set of 17 sustainable development goals set out by the United Nations. The learners are put into groups and are given the chance to choose one of the 17 goals, on which they will have to do a presentation to showcase what the problem is and why there is one, and to also provide a sustainable solution to the problem.
The Grade 1s who work in the Go Lab are given toy insects which are programmable through a series of buttons, to start teaching them the simplest of programming. As the learners get older, the harder the tasks they need to achieve become, so by the time they reach Grade 7 they will be working with laser cutting and 3D printing as well as slightly more advanced programming techniques.
The school also aims to get the learners started on the basics of robotics by the end of the year, and then the more technical aspects as time goes on.
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