Journal

On Friday, July 21, a hands-on programming class was held at the Media Hall in Ehime University's Comprehensive Information and Media Center. 　Twenty-five elementary school students from Matsuyama City participated in the class and experienced programming using LEGO Education SPIKE Prime.

The school's ICT education support staff and STEAM education support staff served as instructors, and two Ehime University students, who work as school supporters , and 16 first- and second-year students from the school supported the elementary school students as teaching assistants. 　First, the students created their own robot cars with LEGO bricks, programmed them using the SPIKE software, and gave them a test drive. 　Next, they improved the robot car by using gear parts to make it run faster, and finally, everyone competed in a robot car race.

Thank you to all the students who participated in the event. We hope that this event will spark your interest in programming and robot.

 　All of the children in this hands-on class were interested in programming, and they immediately put into practice what we taught them, such as how to move forward and how to make it faster, which we enjoyed.