By Tanya Wilkinson
At our service NCC Early Learners in Buderim, we used the grant money to learn about programming through the use of robots, exploring simple algorithms and planning steps to move the robot to a pre-determined space.
We were able to use the robots with the whole group as we had enough robots for everyone to join a group and work together.
The children were engaged and it allowed them to think deeply about what they needed to do to move the robots to a space.
The process of application was easy to follow. It is the first grant that I have applied for and it came from not having the resources (money) needed to provide high quality learning experiences. STEM is such an important enquiry area and I believe that our early learners need to be engaging and learning all they can in regards to how technologies work.
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