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Trial Workshop
Ages 7–12 · One session · 90 min
Build, code, and drive-test a robot in one Saturday morning. Credit toward any course.
Frisco, TX · Ages 7–12 · Small classes, 2 kids per robot
Your kid builds the robot.
The robot does the rest.
No remote controls, no watching videos. Kids design, build, and program autonomous robots — then prove them on a scored mission mat, taught by a professional software engineer. The ladder ends at a real competition whose World Championship is held 30 minutes away in Dallas.
75-min sessions · skill badges, not participation trophies · parents watch Demo Day
The progression ladder
Four levels. Each one ends with a mission your kid runs in front of you.
L1
Explorer
Ages 9–12 · 8 weeks · 75 min
Motion and sensors. Ends with a fully autonomous rescue mission.
L2
Builder
Ages 9–12 · 8 weeks · 75 min
Gears, arms, claws, and launchers. Robots that move the world.
L3
Coder
Ages 10–13 · 8 weeks · 75 min
Same robot, real Python. Variables, functions, and a P-controller.
L4
Competition Team
Ages 9–14 · Seasonal · 90 min
A real VEX IQ competition team. Worlds is held in Dallas.
Ages 7–8 start in Junior Builders, then join Level 1 at 9.
Why parents pick us
Taught by a working engineer
Founded and taught by a professional software engineering leader who builds large-scale cloud systems for a living — not a franchise script reader. Kids hear how the loop they just wrote runs the real world.
Autonomy over joysticks
Most programs let kids drive robots. Ours make robots drive themselves. Every level ends in a scored autonomous mission — the same discipline real robotics demands.
Worlds is in Dallas
Our competition track feeds the VEX IQ Competition — the world’s largest robotics competition, whose World Championship is held in Dallas. The top of this ladder is a 30-minute drive from Frisco.
Progress you can see weekly
Skill badges are punched only when a skill is demonstrated. Kids keep engineering Mission Logs from week one, and every 8-week course ends with a parent Demo Day.
Inside a session
One class, minute by minute
10 min
Spark
A real-world hook — Mars rovers, warehouse robots — tied to today’s concept.
5 min
Mission briefing
Today’s challenge as a mission card with scored success criteria.
40 min
Build & code
Pairs work hands-on; Builder and Programmer roles swap on a timer.
10 min
Test arena
Scored attempts on the mission mat, logged in engineering notebooks.
10 min
Showcase
Every pair demos and answers: what was your hardest bug, and how did you fix it?
Fall cohorts are forming now.
Eight kids per class. Two kids per robot. When it’s full, it’s full.
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