LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential gets primary school students excited about hands-on STEAM learning. This playful, narrative-based learning experience is part of the LEGO Learning System and encourages students to investigate STEAM concepts while contributing to literacy, math, and social-emotional development.

The unique combination of the LEGO brick, classroom-friendly software, and inspiring, standards-based science projects results in a resource that builds students’ confidence. Empower them to ask the right questions, define problems, and design their solutions by putting scientific discovery in their hands.

The curriculum is designed for students and covers many foundational computer science and engineering skills that are not often taught in early childhood. These academic frameworks are taught through a series of powerful ideas: the Engineering Design Process, Robotics, Programming, and Sensors. Each Idea addresses foundational math, literacy, science, and art skills. 

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• Develop computational thinking skills, including creating and modifying sequences, testing, debugging, and using loops.

• Explore the engineering design process, including defining a problem, brainstorming solutions, and testing and refining prototypes.

• Investigate the scientific concepts of energy, energy transfer, and collision.

• STEM-based curriculum on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

• The camp curriculum is designed for beginner to advanced-level

• Hands-on experimental and exploratory study

• kids will learn strategies for “Critical Thinking, Lateral Thinking, Problem-solving, Designing Projects, and Communicating Ideas”

• They will discover basic physical science concepts such as gears, pulleys, levers, wheels, and axles

• Students will be assigned projects according to their grades and skills.

• At the beginning of the week, teachers will evaluate students' prior experiences (if they have any) as teachers will plan the week's curriculum and assign levels accordingly.

• At the end of the week, teams will have Robot battles competitions.

• Coach Steven has been coaching robotics since 2016, leading over 15 teams in the FIRST LEGO League Challenge (FLL-C) youth robotics competition. Here are some achievements of his teams:

  • OverallChampionforNorCalFLL-CRegionalsin2022-23

  •  OverallChampionforNorCalFLL-CRegionalsin2023-24

  •  6ChampionsforFLL-CQualifiers


  •  9RobotPerformanceWinnerforFLL-CQualifiers

  • 2RobotPerformanceWinnerforFLL-CRegionals

• The FLL Autorun team he coached claimed both the robot game and overall championship titles at the 2023 Northern California FLL Championship, and scored a perfect 410 points in robot performance at the 2023 Houston FLL Worlds, ranking 7th globally and 1st in North America.

• He also frequently serves as a judge/referee at various levels of robotics competitions including FLL, FTC, and WRO, and was a FLL referee at the 2022 Houston FLL Worlds Championship. Additionally, he coaches a FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Northern California Champion team, who has qualified the World Championships in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024.