Welcome to the
Holiday 2015 issue of
Turtle Talk,
the Terrapin
newsletter.
Just
in Time for Gift
Giving
FREE
SHIPPING
on
individual
'bots
To facilitate gift giving,
Terrapin is offering FREE
SHIPPING
to U.S. destinations on an
individual Bee-Bot,
Pro-Bot,
Blue-Bot
or the Robot
Duo or Trio
combinations through
December 31.
Give the
gift of learning to the
young people on your list
this holiday season.
Be sure to order
by December 18
to assure delivery by
Christmas.
Kindergarten
students
use
Bee-Bots
in their
STEM
class in
Jackson,
KY.
Kentucky
Valley Educational
Cooperative
shows
Bee-Bot,
Blue-Bot,
and
Pro-Bot
throughout eastern
Kentucky as part of
their mission to support
innovation in
education. Katrina
Slone, KVEC STEM
educator, recently
showed the robots at the
Promising
Practice Summit
in Pikeville. She
reports that teachers
were excited about using
them in their classrooms
and she will be taking
them to visit schools in
the region.
LBJ
Elementary
School in
Jackson is an eastern
Kentucky school that has
incorporated
Bee-Bots
into their STEM
curriculum.
Kindergarten teacher
Stephanie
Thomas
states that
programming
Bee-Bots helps
develop her
students' skills
in counting,
reading,
planning, and
mapping a course
of
action.
Stephanie says that
"once you teach using
STEM, you won't want to
teach any other
way." We
can't argue with
that!
Robots
from
Terrapin
add
extra
fun
to
Hour
of
Code
activities.
Join teachers
and students in
schools around
the world by
creating an Hour
of Code
activity during
Computer
Science
Education
Week,
December
7-13.
Terrapin's
range of
robots can
be used to
create a
programming
activity for
any age
student.
The youngest
learners "code" Bee-Bot
by sending it on a
route they
devise. Blue-Bot
combines on-screen
and off-screen
controls and takes
programming to the
next level. Pro-Bot
offers multi-level
coding and
interrupts with its
sub-procedures and
sensors for more
advanced
students.
Robots
are very
motivational for
students who are
eager to learn the
coding
required. When
hour of code is
over, robots
continue to provide
endless amounts of
learning and fun.
Connect
Terrapin
Logo and
Pro-Bot to
see the Logo screen
turtle come to life!
Move programs between
Logo and Pro-Bot with a
USB cable. Use
Logo's editing tools to
develop programs and try
them out on the screen
before sending them to
the robot. Then
download to Pro-Bot and
watch it go! Upload
Pro-Bot programming to
save and restore later.
All you need is
Terrapin Logo,
Pro-Bot, and an A to A
USB cable. Get
them all at a discount
with the Pro-Bot/Logo
Bundle.
