Robotics and First Lego League
Robotics and Coding go hand-in-hand. They build essential logical thinking, problem solving and technical skills for our students.Robotics, and the associated code, lets students turn abstract ideas into working physical machines.
The Springfield Gardens Community STEM Club has the following equipment:
Four Lego® Spike Essentials kits. These are aimed at the younger students, up to grade 3. The Spike Essentials kit, along with specialised game kits which change each season, are used for First Lego League Discover category. Two of the four Spike Essential kits are kindly loaned to the club by GreenSTEM Education.
Seven Lego® Spike Prime kits. These are used, along with the seasonal game kits, for the First Lego League Challenge division. This is typically for students in grade 4 to grade 8. Five of our 7 Spike Prime kits are kindly loaned the club by GreenSTEM Educatiion. We entered two teams in the 2025 FLL Hobart Regional and 2 teams are registered for the 2026 competition.
Spike Essentials
Spike Prime
Ozobot Evo
Eight Ozobot® Evo robot kits. These are suitable for younger students. It can be used in a line-following mode with colour combinations as the "code".
Eight Cutebot kits. These robots use the BBC microbit computer board which, like the Lego Spike kits, has an intuitive block based coding environment.
Cutebot
 Amusement Park built using the Lego Essentials kits.
Students use colour codes to direct Ozobot Evo through a maze
Working on the FLL Discover project in 2025. The theme was "Unearthed" (Archaeology)
Video of Spike Prime robot navigating a "maze"
BBC Microbit block based coding.
 Robots used for the 2025 FLL Challenge division Robot Game. We entered two teams in the Hobart regional in 2025. We have entered 2 teams in 2026 as well.
