STEM
Program Roamer Using Scratch: Adds Progression to Classroom Coding
Roamer® is Part of the Scratch Extension Showcase
Around the World, over 7 million students use the Scratch Program to learn coding. Scratch is a free visual programming language developed at MIT. It provides students (Scratchers) aged 8 to 16 with tools to create stories, games and animations, which they can then share with one another. Now the MIT Scratch Team has launched Scratch Extensions (ScratchX). This allows Scratchers to connect with external hardware. MIT chose the popular educational robot Roamer and Roamer ScratchX as one of the projects to showcase their innovation. Both products evolved from Logo software and the ideas of Seymour Papert. Bringing them together is a natural advance, which will help overcome some of the issues schools face when trying to develop coding and computational thinking skills. Continue reading
Pirate Roamer Swashbuckling in Glasgow
Download PDFRoamer was proud to be part of the “BBC at the Quay” during the recent Glasgow Commonwealth Games. As part of the BBC’s Digizone the activity was inspired by the CBeebies programme, “Swashbuckle”. And in true buccaneering style a raid on the CBeebies’ prop department quickly fitted out a flotilla of Roamers all raring to find the treasure all it needed was a crew of scurvy dogs. Continue reading
