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Top Three Previewed Trends in CES 2019

Over the past 50 years, CES has grown into one of the most important and biggest platforms where business leaders and innovators of industry can gather and exchange thoughts and ideas. After 50 years development, it has 11 official venues, covering 24 product...

How to Teach STEAM Education in the Classroom

STEAM is incorporated into our day-to-day lives and forms the foundation for many jobs and professions all around the world. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, it is anticipated that STEAM occupations are going to grow by 10% from now until 2020....

How to Introduce Your Daughter to STEM and Coding

STEM industry in the U.S According to a 2018 Glassdoor report, some of the highest-paying jobs are in the STEM industry in the U.S. and likely around the world. Nowadays, we see more and more women starting to join this male-dominated industry. Though diversity and...

2018 MakeX World Championship Successfully Held in Guangzhou

Overview From December 7th to 9th,2018 MakeX Robotics Competition was initiated and sponsored by Makeblock, held the 2018 Global Finals of its Robotics Competition at the Nansha Stadium in Guangzhou. 350 teams from around the world participated in the finals after...

First MakeX Robotics Competition Held in Japan

On Saturday, October 20th, the Tokyo tournament for MakeX Japan robot competition was held at Setagaya Monodzukuri School. As the first MakeX Competition hosted in Japan, it was organized under the cooperation of Azhai Communications, J-Robo Co. Ltd., and the Japan...

Makeblock in 2018 UIST Student Innovation Contest

UIST is the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium, the premier forum for innovations in human-computer interfaces. Researchers, students and companies joined this event to exchange their ideas about user interface studies. The UIST Student Innovation...

First 2018 MakeX Robotics Competition Held in Mexico

Papalote Museo del Niño CDMX On November 9th - 11th, 2018 MakeX Robotics Competition came to Mexico City for the first time, and was held very successfully at Papalote Museo del Niño, a museum focused on learning, communication and working together through interactive...

This Christmas, A STEM Robot Makes the Perfect Gift for Your Child

STEM Robot Gift | Christmas is on the way! With countless choices in the marketplace, shopping for a Christmas gift for your kids can be overwhelming. An educational robot is a solid choice for people who want to find something fun. Also, it is good for parents to...

How to Get Started with Your New Coding Robot and Scratch 3.0!

Coding Robot Nowadays, with the development of information technology and artificial intelligence, the coding robot has become increasingly popular. Many primary and middle schools across the world have begun to teach coding skills as part of their regular curriculum....

Five Things to Know to Help You Get Started with Scratch 3.0

STEAM education: Scratch is a children’s programming tool that was designed and developed by MIT’s Media Lab. The originator of the graphical programming language, Scratch was launched in 2002 and has been iteratively optimized for over 16 years. Scratch has over 26...

Review from the classroom: Makeblock Neuron Explorer Kit

New Robot Toy : Makeblock Neuron Explorer Kit The below is a review of the Makeblock Neuron Explorer Kit from the point of view of the team at Code Hobbits, an organization that holds summer camps and after school classes in coding with five locations in the San...

First 2018 MakeX Robotics Competition Held in Indonesia

On September 27th-28th, the 2018 MakeX robotics competition international round was successfully held in the Bina Bangsa International School, Malang, Indonesia, organized by PT. JOINDO EKA HANDAL. Of the 100 students from 6 schools across Indonesia, 2 alliance teams...

The latest trend with Turkeys kids is coding robots

Coding robots | This is a guest post by Yusuf Gündoğdu, one of the co-founders of Robotistan, a company established to provide Turkish students, educators and makers with the best products available on the marker. We asked him to write about the growing trend in STEM...

First Ever MakeX Challenge Held in Thailand

On September 8-9th, the first MakeX Challenge was held in Thailand, at the Mahidol University in Bangkok, organized by Imagineering Education and Bond L. Cooperation Co., Ltd. with support from the Faculty of Science, Mahidol University. With 52 teams of primary...

The Next Big Job in Tech: Robot Programmer

Nowadays, programming and robotics are no longer the exclusive skills of geeks or computer geniuses. These skills have become an important component of basic education in many places. Therefore, programmable robot are widely used in the education. In Nova Scotia,...

Robots for Kids: Here’s Why You Should Get Your Child a Robot

As modern life shifts over to the digital world, coding becomes a basic life skill for future jobs and other life opportunities. Why do we say “life opportunities”? Because learning to code is not only a way to develop a skill but also a way to develop algorithmic...