1. Educational Robotics in Estonia Heilo Altin

2. Educational Robotics in Estonia Ramon Rantsus Heilo Altin

5. No pep talk Long-term investment

6. 3000 programmers could be hired by tomorrow in Estonia

7. Can anyone become an engineer?

8. GOAL Introduce kids to technology, offer them the opportunity to create, design, test and play with it starting in kindergarten

9. After-school activities in comprehensive schools 2013 Science and technology Everything else Source: Estonian Education Information System database 2013, spring

10. Concept

11. Gain interest Train teachers Get the robots Support schools Organize outputs

12.  Robotic theatre  Outcome  Risks  Workshops  Effect on whom?  Fairs How Do We Gain Interest?

13. Robotic theatre in Hiiumaa, 2010 december

14. Somewhere in Latvia, 2012

15. Concept Gain interest Train teachers Get the robots Support schools Organize outputs

16.  Positive emotion vs hard work  Time oriented vs results  Typical thinking: „I did not understand exactly how this works, but I will take a look at it in school!“ Teacher training

17. Teacher training of robotics and mechatronics course in Tartu 2013

18. Concept Gain interest Train teachers Get the robots Support schools Organize outputs

19. Getting the robots  Recommended robotic sets  LEGO MINDSTORMS  Robolabor  Support from the goverment  HITSA  Smart Lab

20.  Smartlab project  Look@World Foundation  Microsoft Estonia  EMT and Elion, which are telecommunications companies operating in Estonia. EMT and Elion belong to TeliaSonera, Europe’s 5th largest telecommunications group.  The total contribution to the Smartlab by Microsoft, EMT and Elion is 185,000 euros. In 2013 additional partner joined project - Itella Logistics, Playtech, BCS Intera. NutiLabor - SmartLab hobby trainings

21. LEGO Mindstorms NXT

22. LEGO Mindstorms EV3

23. Kodulabor

24. Concept Gain interest Train teachers Get the robots Support schools Organize outputs

25. Support  List for teachers  www.robootika.ee www.robootika.ee  Trainings  Robotic theatre  Competitions  Ramon’s mobile phone

26. Concept Gain interest Train teachers Get the robots Support schools Organize outputs

27. Outputs  Competitions  Technology days  National contest  Multiple disciplines  FIRST® LEGO ® League

28. FIRST LEGO League 2015 semi final in Tallinn Energy Discovery Center

29. Idea? Not to teach robotics!

30. Idea Big Bang theory in school

32. What was the ‘breaking point’ that caused interest in ICT? First computer, experience of doing something by myself: solving computer related problems (helping others), building a computer, software developing or trying to make a computer game, webpage design

33. 40 % of schools in Estonia have joined the project

35. „It is not about people building robots, it is about robots building people!“  Thank you!  www.robootika.ee www.robootika.ee  Heilo.Altin@ut.ee Heilo.Altin@ut.ee  +372 51 87 617