• December 7, 2020

STEM competitions give a direction to children who want to build careers in the associated fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Children build skills in coding, AI, robotics and game development. State-of-the-art STEM academies like Bengaluru-based KiddyPi leverage these contests to bring home the benefits of experiential learning.

At KiddyPi, kids engage in hands-on, fun projects to learn coding, robotics and artificial intelligence. They also prepare themselves for a technology-filled future by enthusiastically taking part in popular STEM competitions.

Awards Won by KiddyPi Students at Prestigious STEM Contests

KiddyPi was founded 4 years ago, and its talented learners have already won rewards at renowned robotics and coding competitions held by players from India and across the world. Examples are Makeblock m Bot Contest, Inspire Awards — MANAK, Google Science Fair, Google Code to Learn, Robofest, World Robot Olympiad and Wonder League competitions.

Here is more about the amazing work done by students in 3 contests:

Case Study 1: International Makeblock Competition — Every year, Makeblock coding and robotics competitions see hundreds of teams from across the world competing to solve real-life challenges in fun ways. In 2017, our students won the International Makeblock competition. The challenge was to use mBot robot, a product of Makeblock, to build a disaster rescue robot system.

The project named mBot Landslide Rescue Avengers was a surprise blend of creativity, impeccable coding skills and entertainment. Children brought into life their favourite characters from Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the super strong Hulk, suave, tech-mogul turned Avenger, the Iron Man and the kind-hearted, chivalrous superhero, Captain America.

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Children engaged mBot robots in the garb of the 3 Avengers on a mission to rescue trapped and injured soldiers under the debris of a landslide.

• The Hulk mBot was programmed with Scratch. It cleared the roads by picking up heavy debris and putting them to the collection point.
• The Iron Man mBot was programmed with C++ to automatically detect trapped humans and animals, and move them to safe zones to be transported to hospitals and veterinary hospitals, respectively.
• The Captain America mBot was programmed with Scratch to locate the nearest hospitals and veterinary hospitals; give medical assistance to the injured, and carry both people and animals to the respective medical centers.

Case Study 2: Inspire Awards — MANAK — A student from Sri Aurobindo Memorial School, Banashankari, Bengaluru and another student from Thyagaraju Central School, Bidadi have made us proud by being selected for the State and National Level rounds respectively, at Inspire Awards — MANAK. While one student was selected in the Urban Category, the other was selected in the Rural Category. The student from Bidadi has already qualified for the National Level contest that will be held in New Delhi.

• The Aurobindo School student was selected for his project, Virtual Telepresence Robot , built with Raspberry Pi and Arduino electronic development board. The entire set-up is a cost-efficient, wireless solution to give accessibility to danger zones like war prone or industrially radioactive areas with the help of pictures clicked by the attached cameras. Human controllers can see the pictures on their virtual reality (VR) headsets. In this way, humans can monitor the situation, assess damages and prepare plans for damage control from a safe distance.
• The boy from Bidadi was selected for his project, Smart Helmet for Safety, built with an Arduino electronic development board. It is an invaluable contribution to make bike riding safer. Riders must wear these helmets without which their bikes will not start. Different features include detection of alcohol consumption, accident and a fall. During alarming situations, the electronic solution alerts people having their numbers registered by bikers. Also, bikes will not start if the system detects that bikers have consumed alcohol. The medium of instruction and presentation was Kannada.

Case Study 3: Wonder League (2019–20) – Three of our bright students submitted their project at Wonder League Competition (2019–20). They have been now shortlisted for the global finals, one of about twenty teams out of thousands of teams worldwide!

Want to know about the The Lost Gate Mission!?

The three children are part of fun search operations with robots as members of the search team task force along with animated characters. They coded their own robots, and took part in the story-based mission called Robot Rescue to find a place named ‘Lost Realm’. Just like a movie production job, our team used green screen visual effects or VFX for the mission to put the desired background behind the subjects.

To Sum Up

Parents and educators have a constant concern: how to go beyond the theoretical lessons in science and mathematics textbooks, and keep their children excited and engaged with STEM. They also want to know how their juniors are doing with respect to the best students at the national and international levels.

STEM contests can help provide great answers to the above questions. KiddyPi prepares students and supports them towards excelling in these contests. The students become better at problem solving, communication, goal setting, time management and teamwork. Want to know more? Kindly check our online course offerings.

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