MathProf
USA
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Part of my business activities not too far down the road will include retail sales of EZ-Robot kits along with two, or three or four 30-minute training sessions on "teaching" the bots. I am wondering about your direct experience with children of any particular age who seemed to do well (or badly) utilizing ARC to control and train a bot. In particular, for this list of products
Adventure JD Six Flipper Galapagos Roli
are you personally aware of any particularly good match between a particular product and a particular age group?
Ron
Yes, but add in an 'oh, daddy.... exasperated sigh whenever she beats me to the punch, before the shaking the head and rolling her eyes...
I think you are right. Has to be coded somewhere in human DNA
She's not quite to the teenage 'Daddy is a moron' step yet, but that comes under Advanced Subroutines...
Tom
@dj As you have suggested I have had a couple of exchanges with Michael at AILRobotics, and he is indeed a great resource. He and I plan additional discussions, and your suggestion about a synergy looks to have some promise.
By the way, here is his comment about best ages to work with children and a friendly warning about some of the younger children they have worked with:
We have hosted summer camps this year for 3rd-8th graders. We've found this is a good age group to introduce key concepts and basic coding skills. However every student is different, and I've found the material to be over some of the younger 3rd graders capabilities.
A great contact, DJ. As usual, this community is a treasure.
Ron