Tinker Education held the 2017 Nairobi Robotics & STEM Bootcamp from December 11th to 16th in 2017. Students from 5 to 17 years old worked in teams based on their ages. They learned the basics of engineering mechanics, electrical wiring, mechanical trouble-shooting, programming, and collaboration skills. Afterwards, they applied these [...]
During STEM Saturday Class, Tinker 2 class learnt about the different phases of the moon. Using LittleBits, students created their own hands-on projects to represent the rotating earth with a moon revolving around it. The moon revolves around the earth in a path known as an orbit. A complete revolution [...]
When life gives you lemons… you make a battery! That’s what we call Positive Energy!!! During STEM Saturday, Tinker 4 students created their own Lemon Battery Experiment in order to prove the science principle of electric currents. The simple lemon battery has been made with copper nails and thin pieces of [...]
Tinker Education teaches STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) with coding and physical computing tools. In each physical computing lesson, students are taught with interactive hands-on systems which include both software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. During Saturday STEM class, Tinker Grade 4 students [...]
Our students have been busy Scientists at work using their creativity and problem-solving skills as part of the Global Cardboard Challenge by Imagination Foundation. The theme of our August camp was Cardboard Invention with Physical Science where our students observed and experimented with Simple Machines, Kinetic Energy and Force. During [...]
Following the successful recreation of the Flappy Bird game, our Tinker 3 students Nathan and Leon couldn’t wait to make another game for the Scratch online community to enjoy. Snake is the name for a video game concept where the player uses the keyboard arrows to draw a line and [...]
In Computer Science there are four key concepts for computational thinking: 1. Decomposition 2. Abstraction 3. Pattern Recognition 4. Algorithms In order to understand how a complex system works, it is easier to use decomposition. Decomposition is breaking down a big problem into smaller manageable parts. Don’t be overwhelmed by a big [...]
Flappy Bird was a mobile game featured on the App Store and Google Play in 2013 by the developer Dong Nguyen from Vietnam. In the game, the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between rows of green pipes without hitting them, or falling to the ground. Over the last [...]
In real life, windmills are used for pumping water, grinding grain and to generate electricity. Windmills produce wind power which is a source of renewable energy that is affordable, clean, and sustainable. To represent this concept, our Tinker 2 student's lesson activity was to invent a windmill using LittleBits. To launch [...]
In today's lesson, our Tinker Grade 1 students learnt about the concepts of pattern and loop. In computer programming, a loop simplifies the sequence of repeated instructions. Students made their own yummy necklaces to accomplish the lesson objectives through the procedure Ask + Imagine, Plan, Create + Improve. When students are immersed in an unplugged [...]