Quirkbot Education
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | SPARKLITECH AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 987 900 |
| Project duration | November 2015 - November 2017 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The purpose of the project was to develop educational material for the Quirkbot / Strawbees platform to make it more attractive to teachers and educators. Or more precisely as described in the application to "Provide as much educational material (lesson plans) as possible to enable the use Quirkbot for all ages and subjects, with the purpose to strengthen both economical and educational assimilation." Judging by the pedagogical material produced by the project partners Quirkbot and Strawbees (available in the links below) this goal has been met with distinction.
Expected results and effects
The results for this project are published in the links below. The educational outcome of the project has been that the product has been (to-date) sold to over 40,000 schools worldwide. The financial outcome of the project has been that Strawbees AB aquired Quirkbot AB, strengthening its position as one of the few edtech startups that can offer a complete engineering-programming progression, to a third of the price of Lego Education´s products.
Planned approach and implementation
The project´s plan was to have monthly meetings with all project partners for the development of new lesson plans based on activities and instructions developed by the project partners Strawbees & Quirkbot. The outcome of these meetings led to the lesson plans found on skapa.how - The project partners Quirkbot and Strawbees worked in parallell with producing their own educational material in image, text & video. This work was done continuously throughout the project (therefore also the most expensive part) and led to the majority of the educational material eventually produced.