WILMINGTON, DE — EdTech robotics company, Robotical, announced it has secured a district-wide order for its multi-award-winning humanoid walking robot, a sale which has seen 360 Martys rolled out in classrooms throughout the Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) estate.
Pupils in CUSD’s 32 elementary schools and two new state-of-the-art STEAM labs are now learning to code with Marty, the leading educational humanoid walking robot and winner of Tech & Learning’s Best of Show at the recent ISTELive conference, Global EdTech 2023 Hardware Award winner and the BETT Hardware Award winner in 2022.
Commenting on the order, Hal Speed, Head of North America at Robotical, said: “Marty is an extremely versatile resource that enables children from as young as four to learn to code in a fun and engaging way. And, to make it as easy as possible for educators to deliver lessons that meet success criteria, we have an online learning portal that houses extensive curriculum-mapped teaching resources. We are delighted that CUSD has chosen to invest in Marty as their primary STEM learning tool and, having seen Marty in action, it seems both teachers and children are all really fired up to learn with Marty.”
It was a sentiment shared by the Principal of Laguna Niguel elementary, Andrea Meissner. In recounting the teacher training that Robotical delivered at the Laguna Niguel elementary – home to the new STEAM labs, she commented: “When they learned to use the robots, you would have thought they were having a party.
“If the teachers had that much fun, I thought, so will the kids.”
Parent Burcu Cevik said that her 7-year-old first-grade son was keen to see the labs and experience their many offerings.
“Once he saw the robots, he was so excited,” Cevik added. “He’s very good at math and science and he’ll love that he can code and program the robots.”
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