Scholars Global: Coding, Robotics & Design program

Scholars Global & Create Lab: Coding, robotics & design programs

Scholars Global School and Singapore’s Create Lab are collaborating to bring coding, robotics and design courses to the school. These courses will empower our children to become technology creators, and not just remain as technology consumers. Our children will grow up in a world very different from any generation before them. Because of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Robotics, most will do jobs that aren’t even invented yet. Children will need 21st Century Skills: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication & Empathy – skills machines can’t replicate. Computational Thinking will empower children with these essential skills. Welcome to the new literacy!

Learn for the 21ST Century

Create Lab’s core introductory program developed with academics from Oxford, MIT & Singapore’s top universities will help lay the foundation for Scholars Global School students to become powerful Computational Thinkers. Using concepts of coding, robotics & design, students are encouraged to become problem solvers and creators. Students will code their own computer games & digital art, program robots and develop hardware that will progressively enhance their thinking skills and help them excel in school and at home

At the end of the program, students would be able to:

Develop a foundation in Computational Thinking – a powerful thinking process that enhances cognitive abilities
Develop 21st Century skills in critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration
Understand and appreciate the basic concepts of computing, including algorithms, sequences, loops, conditionals, variables etc.
Develop computer programs and hardware for simple games, digital stories and learning tools using concepts of design and innovation

The Create Lab Advantage

EXCEL EVERYWHERE

Our programs transform students into independent creators that have mindsets and toolkits to excel at home, school & communities. Over 180 hours of curriculum in coding, robotics & design thinking for 21st Century Leaders

BEST TEACHERS

Our teachers are passionate about empowering their students to excel, and are creators at heart. Trained by mentors in Singapore, all our teaching and classroom experiences are benchmarked to US and Singapore standards

PIONEERING TEAM

Create Lab’s Global Academic Advisory Board has over 85-years of experience in the fields of computational & design thinking from leading institutions including Oxford, MIT, University of Auckland and Singapore’s top universities

GLOBAL COMMUNITY

Over 2,500+ students from Singapore, China, Australia, Indonesia, India & Sri Lanka have taken part in a Create Lab program. They are now part of a growing global community of creators, building solutions for the 21st Century

Course Summary

Students will be progressively introduced to the fundamentals of design and innovation including empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping and testing through fun and gamified learning approaches

The course borrows from Prof. Seymour Papert’s constructionist learning theory and the work of MIT Media Lab and Prof. Ken Kahn’s technology enhanced learning theory along with Key Stages 1-3 of the British Computing Programs of Study

Students will be encouraged to explore in a self-paced, “learning by doing” facilitative environment where they will learn to relate design and innovation to key computational concepts including abstraction, variables, loops, and conditionals. Through activities such as role-playing, story-telling, art and music, along with state-of-the-art software and hardware from MIT and Google, students will be challenged to solve simple everyday problems by developing their own computer programs and hardware. Students will be able to share all their output with their families and friends as well as continue to engage and build upon their learning through free to use, cloud based tools

Materials Provided
All Create Lab learning resources, tablet and laptop computers, Dash robots, micro-controllers and other technology tools will be provided

Instructors
Our instructors are very well experienced. All members go through extensive training under the Create Lab Method for curriculum, pedagogy and classroom management by our team in Singapore. Student to instructor will be kept at a maximum of 10:1, to facilitate personalized attention

Program Structure and FAQs (Click here, for more details)
The Program runs for 20 lessons for 2 hours each. Lessons will be held once a week, during term time. Upon completion students will have the option of enrolling in progressively advanced modules

TIMING
Fridays, 1:30PM – 3:30PM

DATE
TBC

FEE STRUCTURE
– 5 installments of Rs. 4000/- each
– First 2 installments paid at registration
Early bird discount of Rs. 1000 (till 31st Aug)

EQUIPMENT
All equipment, including computers, tablets, robots, micro-controllers, and learning materials will be provided in class

DURATION
20 classes of 2 hours each

Please contact School to register!