Forfar Academy

Building on a successful pilot with Strathmore Primary School, Forfar Academy’s Angus Young Engineers has extended its project to work with a cluster of 8 Primary Schools to deliver after school digital skills clubs involved initially in First Lego League® (FLL) with delivery at a central training hub at the Academy

FLL is a mechatronic based coding project. Students work together to explore a topic and to design, build and programme an autonomous Lego® robot to solve a series of missions. Teams participate in the challenge by programming an autonomous robot to score points on a  themed playing field (the game) and developing a solution to a problem they have identified (the project), guided by FLL core values.

Teams of P7 & SI pupils each work with an adult coach on a 12-16 week challenge. Over 100 children are engaged in the after-school activity and are working towards bronze CREST awards and digital skills open badges

Forfar Academy has ambitious plans to extend the project to more schools in the region.