2 Week Course: Build your own App and Robotics with Arduino - Florence

Available in: Florence

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Course Description

The 2-week course has been created for teachers interested in learning how to build a basic app of their own, whilst alsobeing introduced to coding and robotics with an Arduino.

Participants will discover the process of designing an app using intuitive, uncomplicated software, which makes it easy to understand the logic behind the code and allowes them to learn progressively from the principles to more complex stages.

The tool will aid teachers in sharing with their students the rewarding adventure of designing apps with educational purposes, making lessons more motivating, appealing, and adapted to the needs of the 21st century.

Along the way, the apps will help teachers stimulate in their students skills such as creativity and entrepreneurship, and create an interest in set school tasks.

As teachers pass on their knowledge to their students, they will acquire the basic tools to move from a standard, passive use of an app software to designing it, learning the elements and fundamental logic of software creation, and becoming active developers!

In the Arduino part of the course, participants will understand the value and importance of learning a coding language, through an introduction to Arduino software. The software is user-friendly, innovative, and easy to understand, which makes it an enjoyable way to start learning more about electronics and robotics.

Participants will gain the knowledge required to be able to write a simple program in C++ with GNU Compiler, and transform a physical input into a digital one and analyze it. Throughout the course, participants will work to create their own complete Arduino project, from beginning to end.

Continue reading: Discover the learning outcomes and the tentative schedule of this course.

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Course categories: ICT and School Innovation

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