The Library in Barriere was packed with grade 4 and 5 elementary school students on Thursday, Apr. 18, to learn what toy Ozobots are all about.
Barriere head librarian, Pam Rudd, facilitated the session, showcasing what the Ozobots can do and how students can produce basic coding to get them to do it.
The Ozobot, is a line of toy robots that are about the size of a golf ball. Ozobots follow the lines that are drawn with markers by the students on white paper. If the students use different colors on the lines it changes the Ozobot’s movement or behavior.
The Ozobots can work offline, but they can also be controlled by an Ozobot mobile app, where kids also learn to write programs that they can later send to each other by text message. When they send each other one of these programs, it controls the recipient’s nearby Ozobot.
You can find more on Ozobotsby going to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdBG1TSgR8
About Ozobot:
Ozobot is a maker of award-winning coding robots constructed for the next generation of creators. The company was formed in 2014 by Nader Hamda, whose vision was to create an innovative way to play, learn, and socially interact in an ever-expanding digital world through robotics. With game applications and creative curriculums, Ozobot introduces the future of interactive robots, namely the Evo and Bit, which blend entertainment and education in the family room and the classroom. With Ozobot, the goal is to provide users of all ages a new option to play, learn, and interact, while inspiring them to make the jump from using technology, to actively shaping and creating it. Visit www.ozobot.com.
