KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Students in the after school program at Riviera Elementary School had a great opportunity to create and program Lego robots.

The Children’s Museum of Art and Science (CMAS) made the kits and laptops available to the students for two hour sessions, once a week for 3 weeks.

These sessions are free to all programs and individuals.

Using the robot kits is fun. There are 12 different robots which can be created.

These kits provide students with hands-on time to learn basic physics (with gears, sensors, and small motors), rudimentary programming skills (adding sounds, determining speeds or direction of rotation) and problem solving skills (why isn’t this working?).

Girls as well as boys in grades second through eighth find these activities challenging and exciting.

CMAS also took the kits to Lucerne Elementary and in January they will go to Pomo School in Clearlake.

CMAS has offered these sessions to any after school program in Lake County and will also serve charter schools or clusters of home-schooled students if invited.

Contact Billy Gear at 707-279-1514 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to set up a date.