A principal once forwarded us three vendor quotes and asked, half-joking, which one was lying. None were. Each had priced a completely different thing without saying so, one a single-classroom…
A team spends three months on a robot that solves one task in under two minutes on the day. That's not really the point. The point is the three months…
A principal once asked whether buying a robotics kit meant the school had "done the AI thing" too. It hadn't, and the confusion is easy to understand. Marketing, news coverage…
Most robotics programmes that fizzle out do so quietly. Nobody cancels them. A club meets less often, a kit stays boxed after the enthusiastic teacher moves on, and by year…
A kid spends an hour wiring a sensor to a motor, gets it wrong four times running, and finally gets it right on the fifth try. That's not really an…
Walk into most school robotics rooms and check the drawers. Half of what's in there hasn't moved since delivery day. That's rarely a hardware problem; it's usually a buying problem:…
In the same room, there are two kids, one a nine-year-old and the other a sixteen-year-old. While it is clear that it does not work, many schools usually use such…
A principal called us last term, a bit sheepish about it, and admitted her school had gone ahead and bought a batch of GPU laptops with zero plan for what…
A ninth grader once told a teacher, dead serious, that the essay was "basically mine" because she'd typed the prompt herself. That one sentence sums up most of what schools…
A school principal recently asked, fairly bluntly, whether buying a robotics kit basically covered "the AI thing" too. It doesn't, not really, and the confusion is understandable. The two get…
