This cool looking car—the GoPiGo Robot from Dexter Industries—is a great tool for helping students advance their coding skills. It's buildable, so they get the engineering aspect of STEM education and, once they have it built, it's programmable over a simple Wi-Fi connection! The single GoPiGo kits are great for children at home, but the Classroom Packs are phenomenal for teachers who want to give each one of their students the gift of coding!
Students can start with simple drag-and-drop programming using the GoPiGo and its easy-to-follow apps. It's incredibly easy for them to get started and they'll constantly want to be trying something more difficult. That's good news because these compact robots support programming in the Java language, too, so kids in junior high or high school can get a feel for what more complex coding entails! Each kit is designed to help students to start thinking like programmers and use technology that meets them where they are to help them see how to think one step ahead, design practical solutions, and succeed in the real world.
The GoPiGo has a number of different kits of different sizes for students of different ages and ability levels. Our favorites include the Beginner Classroom Kit and Advanced Classroom Kit, which each contain enough components to enable robotics-based coding for a class of 15-20 students! We're also big on the GoBoxEd Club Kit and the wide variety of accessories the Dexter Industries team has created.
Beginner Classroom Kit:
The Beginner Classroom Kit includes five complete GoPiGo Starter Kits. It also comes with starter lessons for kids to learn programming in Bloxter—their own unique language. It even works with all versions of Raspberry Pi!
Advanced Classroom Kit:
Take programming up a couple notches with the Advanced Classroom Kit and its five Starter Kits. With its servo, distance sensor, and pre-loaded microSD, it's easier than ever to lead collaborative classroom coding!
GoBoxEd Club Kit:
Starting a school robotics club built around the GoBoxEd Club Kit is easy. The GoBoxEd Club Kit gifts students with everything they need to succeed with programming and inventing. You'll get 10 complete GoPiGo robot car sets, nine sensors, and 12 PDF missions!
More kits and accessories:
Besides the classroom kits, you can get the single-unit Beginner and Advanced Kits, too. Extras include the BalanceBot Extension Kit and Robot Base Kit, all of which teach programming with a Raspberry Pi!
If you ask us, classroom packs are the way to go. There's no better way to give every student the opportunity to program and the savings for teachers is pretty great, too! To order classroom packs or single GoPiGo items, click below! If you have any questions or would like to inquire about special Educator Discount pricing, please contact us. You can give us a call at 1 (877) 252-0001 or send an email to sales@eduporium.com! Follow us on Twitter for more.
