👩‍🏫For Teachers

Coming Fall 2025! Purdue CS Outreach’s Robotics Initiative is developing hands-on classroom kits, CS-aligned lesson plans, and mentorship opportunities for teachers across Indiana and beyond.

 

What’s in the Works

We’re building a toolkit that brings computer science and robotics into real classrooms — with no prior robotics experience required.

🧠 Curriculum Kits Coming Soon

Classroom-ready kits with lesson plans and extension activities aligned to Indiana CS and STEM standards.

🧬 Pilot Spotlight: The LEGO Cell Unit

We recently partnered with a middle school science teacher to pilot a LEGO Spike Prime robotics lesson tied to Indiana life science standards on cell structure and function.

“Students weren’t just memorizing facts about cells; they were actively constructing, programming, and understanding them in a deeply experiential way.”

— Nicole Strickhouser, Middle School Science Teacher

Read Nicole’s full reflection and classroom photos here.

The success of this unit helped launch the broader initiative and confirmed what we already suspected: robotics can transform science instruction into something hands-on, memorable, and meaningful.

 

Available Fall 2025

These kits will be available for borrowing through Purdue CS Outreach:

👉 LEGO Spike Prime Robotics Kits

👉 micro:bit CuteBot Robotics Kits

Each kit will include grade-level activities, lesson guides, and optional training support.

 

🤝 Want to Collaborate?

If you're excited to bring robotics into your classroom—or have an idea for integrating it into your subject area—we’d love to work with you. Purdue CS Outreach is actively looking for teachers to co-develop robotics-integrated units across science, math, and computer science classrooms. Let’s build something great together.

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