At Bell Park North, students are very lucky to take part in a whole school Robotics program. Twice a year each class receives a 90 minute session run by Kevin and Pauline from The World of Robotics. Kevin and Pauline have been educators in robotics for over 20 years.

The Robotics program has a multitude of benefits:

• Promotes fine motor skills.
• Encourages team work.
• Improves creativity.
• Develops problem solving and mathematical thinking.
• Improves communication skills
• Develops persistence.
• Develops lateral thinking and planning skills.
• Improves self-esteem.

To further imbed robotics into the curriculum, Bell Park North Primary School has taken part in the district Robo-Cup Challenge for the last three years.

The Robo-Cup Challenge is open to year 5/6 students who volunteer to take part in this extracurricular activity.

Students are required to work as a team to build and code a robot to take part in different challenges, including a robot soccer tournament (which is definitely a favourite of our students).