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THE LADYBUG ROBOTICS WORKSHOP FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MELAKA (16TH FEBRUARY 2023)

Assalamualaikum and hello readers 😊

The Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering, UTeM was really honored to welcome a group of high school students and teachers here recently under "The Ladybug Workshop Program". We were the official hosts together with Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Melaka and RoboForce Enterprise (a robotics-based company in Melaka). More than 20 schools turned up and the auditorium was packed and lively with the presence of the excited participants.

Overall it was loads of fun as I was given the honor to conduct a sharing session about introduction to robots, my research experience and facilities available in UTeM for students who wish to pursue a career as a manufacturing engineer. I have always enjoyed talking about my passion and 40 minutes was too short for me!




The objective of the workshop was to help build interest in robotics among the students. They were grouped into teams of 3-4 and each team was given a set of the Ladybug robot which was designed exclusively by RoboForce. Then, they were introduced to the basic features of LadyBug, how to build a line following robot then then teams shall assemble and program the robot by themselves.




We hope that this program has achieved its objectives. I brought the social robot PARO to "mingle" with the workshop participants. I can see happy smiles all around as the students interacted with PARO 😉.

See you in my next post!

















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  1. Writer Jordan1 March 2023 at 04:09

    Seems like more informative workshop.Hope the blog offers more comment on Embedded Software Development.

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