KELSEYVILLE — Students at Riviera Elementary School recently had the opportunity to create and program Lego robots.
The Children”s Museum of Art and Science (CMAS) made the kits and laptops available to the students for two-hour, free-of-charge sessions, once a week for three weeks, according to Carolynn Jarrett.
There are 12 different robots that can be created, Jarrett stated. The kits provide students with hands-on time to learn basic physics with gears, sensors and small motors; rudimentary programming skills by adding sounds, determining speeds or direction of rotation, and problem-solving. Students at Lucerne Elementary School will get the chance to use the kits next, and students at Pomo Elementary School in Clearlake will have the kits available to them in January.
CMAS has offered the sessions to any after school program in Lake County and will also serve charter schools or clusters of home-schooled students if invited.
Contact Billy Gear at 279-1514 or bbgear7@gmail.com to set up a date.
