Hummingbird Robot Kit by BirdBrain

BirdBrain Robots- Hummingbird  Robotics Kit consists of lights, motors, and sensors and is an easy-to-use, creative robotics tool that allows students to design, build, and program a personally meaningful robot out of any materials, with any device, in multiple programming languages BirdBlox, Snap!, MakeCode / JavaScript, Python, Java, Swift, Kotlin.There are free learning materials for classroom projects, robot building, programming, classroom integration, and professional development. Hummingbirds are recommended for students from 4th to 12th grade. The Hummingbird base kit is about $120 but there are class sets and BirdBrain is wonderful to work with for a larger quote. They also have a free loaner program. 

Use this in the classroom:

Teaching resources for Hummingbird shared by Jen Weaver

Teaching resources for Hummingbird from Bird Brain

 

Watch as Tom Lauwers, Founder and CEO of BirdBrain Technologies, describes how creativity can thrive when students use the Hummingbird Robot (and describes a little about the Finches as well).