Gakken Educational Co., Ltd., a robot programming course for the lower grades of elementary school, “Mechanism Kids” won the “13th Kids Design Award” “Design Category for Children’s Creativity and Future”.
“Mechanism Kids” is a programming course for first and second graders of elementary school, which is offered at private schools and school children. By moving a robot, you can learn programming in a fun and sensational way. Full of “tricks”, “story”, and other “tricks” that children will be absorbed in, textbooks that look like learning magazines will broaden your interests and interests and enhance your intellectual quest.
Robot programming course for lower grades of elementary school run by Gakken Educational Co., Ltd. (Shinagawa, Tokyo / President: Kazuhiko Fukuzumi), a group company of Gakken Holdings Co., Ltd. (Shinagawa, Tokyo / President: Hiroaki Miyahara) “Mechanism Kids” won the “13th Kids Design Award” in the “Design category for children’s creativity and future”.
■ “Mechanism Kids” specializing in programming learning for “lower grades” whose needs are increasing
“Mechanism Kids” is a programming course for first and second graders of elementary school, which is offered at cram schools and school children. By moving the robot, you can learn programming in a fun and sensational way.
■ A textbook that is packed with Gakken’s educational know-how and can be read in a “magazine-like” manner
Gakken, which has provided educational content for 70 years, offers unprecedented programming learning.
The textbooks used in the course are full of “tricks” that children will be absorbed in, such as “mystery”, “puzzles”, and “story”! Textbooks, like learning magazines, broaden your interests and interests and enhance your intellectual inquisitiveness.
■ Comments from the person in charge of “Mechanism Kids”
Until now, our company (Gakken) has continued to make efforts to foster children’s “curiosity” and create content that conveys “the joy of learning.” The same is true in the cutting-edge field of “programming education.” Through this award, I am very pleased that the value of the course that puts the “motivation” of children learning programming first was recognized.
■ Outline of “Mechanism Kids”
★ Usage fee: 5,000 yen / month (60 minutes each course is held twice a month) The set fee varies depending on the classroom.
★ For robot teaching materials, we will use Gakken Staful’s “First programming car with a card” and Artec’s “Stadino”.
★ Official HP: http://robot.gakken.jp/
At Gakken Educational, the Gakken classroom “0.1.2 Petit Pas”, which can be attended from 0 years old, also won the “13th Kids Design Award”. The result was that the cutting-edge efforts in educational services were highly evaluated.