Young Engineers – Brisbane North Australia Young Engineers – Brisbane North Australia
Big Builders
This fun and unique program is for young kids in preschool, daycare and kindergarten (ages 3-6). The ‘Big Builders’ program incorporates tactile, motor, and spatial skills while introducing science and engineering principles using K’nex® building blocks. These programs are conducted in small groups to ensure each Big Builder obtains the intended knowledge and experience.
Ages: 3-5 (Pre-school)
Average Lesson Duration: 45 minutes
Bricks Challenge
The ‘Bricks Challenge’ (LEGO®) program introduces elementary school children (ages 6-12) to the basic principles of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). By integrating basic arithmetic learned in school with an intuitive active learning process, children grasp a better understanding of the fundamentals of physics and engineering concepts.
Ages: 6-12 (Years 1 to 7) 
Average lesson duration: 75 minutes
Program Subjects Include
Basic and complex mathematics: Instructors teach basic math, from addition and subtraction to exponents
Famous scientific and philosophical figures: Archimedes, Sir Isaac Newton, Einstein, and more.
Powers and principles in physics: Centrifugal and centripetal forces, the power of inertia, potential energy, kinetic energy, action/reaction law, buoyancy, torque, fulcrum, load division, angular momentum, and more.
Robotics and Rookie Robots
The Robotics & Software after school program provides theoretical knowledge in software and mechanical engineering combined with mathematics and physics. The program includes real-life practical software programming and the Young Engineers Edutainment approach, which combines learning with playing.
In each lesson, the children build a model using LEGO® bricks and components that demonstrate the lesson’s subject. Each group receives a unique kit which is designed and manufactured especially for this purpose as well as programmatic interface tools, including EV3 Intelligent bricks, sensors and servo motors. A new subject will be taught every lesson and will take the children several steps toward understanding and using the scientific-engineering solution learned during the session.
Suitable for: 6th – 9th Grade
Average lesson duration: 90 minutes
The Main Goal and Idea
- Investigating machines from a real engineer’s point of view
- OOP – Object Oriented Programming
- Focusing on mechanical software design, using teamwork
- Investigating the programmatic mechanisms required to operate the machine, using mathematics and physics
- Finding solutions for programmatic-mechanical optimisation problem
Program Subjects Include
- Software Engineering: Commands, Terms Loops, Planning methods, Dynamic programming, Applied mathematics, Efficiency, Interfacing
- Mechanical Engineering: Complex arithmetic, Forces and laws of physics
Robotics Values
- Develops procedural logical thinking
- Develops the ability to cope malfunctions
- Develops mathematical thinking
- Develops programming skills
- Develops motor skills
- Encourages creative thinking
- Develops engineering processes analytic skills
- Strengthens social aptitude, self-confidence and a sense of capability
Building and Investigating
- Robots that perform various actions
- Variety of animals
- Amusement park rides
- Construction equipment
- Various vehicles
- Other exciting machines that develop the children’s imagination
Statistical Overview
After extensive testing, it has been statistically proven that children participating in e² Young Engineers enrichment programs achieve high grades within all scientific subjects taught at school.
It has also been proven that primary school students who join Young Engineers community obtain the mathematical knowledge required to succeed when tackling the more complex scientific curricula taught at middle and high schools.
Checkout The Statistical Report
These tests have been conducted by the
Center for Cooperation and Advancement (CCA)