Robot Petting Zoo Workshop

What dances, eats, and lights up? Animals you create in the Robot Petting Zoo!  Come spend a very hands-on evening learning to design, build, and program your own robot animal with the Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Find out how you can host your own Robot Petting Zoo & Makeathon anywhere. No coding experience necessary--Absolute beginners are welcome! A Hummingbird Robotics Kit will be provided for you to use during the workshop, but if you want to take your kit home with you, be sure to purchase "Workshop + Hummingbird Base Kit" at checkout.  Do you already have a Hummingbird robotics kit? Feel free to bring it with you!  Please bring a laptop with Snap! software downloaded: http://hummingbirdkit.com/learning/snap-programming  The Robot Petting Zoo (RPZ) & Makeathon engages students and educators in friendly making, coding, and design with a creative twist on the traditional hackathon. During an RPZ Makeathon, student groups create animatronic animals while learning empathic design thinking, teamwork, and engineering using cardboard, robotics kits, code, and craft supplies. They then bring their animals together for a Robot Petting Zoo Showcase where the public, and especially young children, can interact with them.  RPZ's are transforming robotics education by engaging the disengaged, breaking stereotypes about who can be computer scientists, engineers, and technology innovators, and attracting more people into creative and technical learning in a more accessible, friendly way. Have questions about the workshop? Please contact Katie@birdbraintechnologies.com  Parking $5 Flat Rate at San Jose Convention Center. See Parking Map.