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title: "Micromelon at World Science Festival Toowoomba"
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date: "2024-06-08"
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categories: ["Customer Stories"]
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tags: []
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excerpt: "Micromelon brings hands-on robotics to the World Science Festival in Toowoomba, giving regional families the chance to experience coding and robotics firsthand."
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featuredImage: "/images/news/img_7421.jpg"
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Micromelon Robotics brought the Rover platform to the World Science Festival in Toowoomba, giving families and young learners in the Darling Downs region the chance to experience hands-on robotics and coding.
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Visitors to the Micromelon booth got to drive Rovers through wooden maze courses, try out the block-based coding environment, and learn about the sensors built into each Rover. The team set up interactive challenge stations where kids could program their Rover to navigate obstacles, with facilitators on hand to guide participants through their first lines of code.
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The World Science Festival's regional events in Toowoomba and Ipswich are an important part of Micromelon's commitment to reaching communities outside of South East Queensland's metropolitan centres. Not every student has access to robotics programs at their school, and public events like these help bridge that gap by giving families a taste of what's possible with educational robotics.
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The Toowoomba event drew strong interest from local teachers as well, with several enquiring about bringing the platform into their schools for the following term.
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