Ceuta, 2021
Ceuta, 2021
With the support of the Government of the Autonomous City of Ceuta, local companies, and the CEIP (kindergarten and elementary school) Ciudad de Ceuta, in October 2021 we were able to organize our first Let’s Bot! outside the Iberian Peninsula and the most diverse to date. A two-day program in which twelve participants of different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities and religions, with no prior experience in STEM, participated as a team in a challenge to build and program a robot. In this edition, we used the LEGO Education’s Spike Prime sets for the first time, the newest LEGO educational tool.
Let’s Bot! was an opportunity for participants to see the possibility of an engineering career by performing associated tasks.
The discovery of their abilities through programming, building robots, and problem-solving had a huge empowering effect on the young participants who had never thought they could shine in technology.
When students realize what they are capable of, their confidence skyrockets.
Robotics turned out to be a great tool for integration. Overcoming the stereotypes they live with, boys and girls from different backgrounds and faiths all worked together as equals, building and programming robots, solving problems, and sharing in success.