Little Inventors · ages 6 to 8

First Robots (Wood Green, Saturday)

VEX 123: First Robots. Six weeks with a robot a six-year-old can carry. Press the buttons to make it go, then build a plan from cards, and finish by driving a little course you made.

An illustration of the blue VEX 123 robot, with cartoon eyes and a smile, bouncing above an open book — Meet the robot: a coder a six-year-old can hold in two hands. · VEX Robotics

Meets: Saturdays, 11.30am – 12.30pm
Runs: 16 Jan – 20 Feb 20276 weeks
Where: Wood Green HubOpposite the library, by Wood Green station
Seats: 8 of 12 seats left12 children, two to a kit

What it costs

The full term, 6 sessions: GBP 120.00
One paid trial sessionCounts towards the term if your child stays — the credit is good for 14 days.: GBP 15.00

Book a place

You sign in with your email first — no password to remember. Nothing is charged until you have seen the invoice.

What your child will build

Mission 1: Press and go

Mission 2: Cards in a row

Mission 3: Show day

01Engineering
Mission 1: Press and go
Drive the robot to the edge of the mat and stop, three times running, using only the buttons.
Weeks 1–2
02Coding
Mission 2: Cards in a row
Lay out cards that drive the robot around one corner and back.
Weeks 3–4
03Capstone
Mission 3: Show day
Drive your robot through the little course and show a grown-up how you made it go.
Weeks 5–6

What they came out with

Week one: driving by pressing the buttons. · VEX Robotics
Week three: the Coder, and a plan made of cards. · VEX Robotics