Quark Lab

Robotics Lab

An applied learning experience where students build, program, test, and improve solutions through robotics.

Discover the project
Students test a mobile robot in a school courtyard
  • Robotics
  • Programming
  • Learning by doing

About the project

Robotics to build, test, and open new horizons.

Quark Robotics Lab is a Quark Lab educational project that uses robotics, programming, and electronics as an environment for learning by doing. Each challenge invites students to understand a problem, design a response, and turn it into something they can test.

The experience does not end when the robot moves. Students observe what happens, diagnose errors, correct their decisions, and explain what they learned. Technology becomes a way to develop computational thinking, problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, and confidence in their own abilities.

The first pilot is designed for 12 students aged 12 to 14. Its purpose is to validate the educational experience and field operations before adapting the program and expanding its reach with evidence of our own.

Where we are

From a well-designed experience to a program that learns.

Robotics Lab is preparing Pilot 01. Each stage is designed to reduce uncertainty and turn observation into decisions for the next version.

  1. Now01

    Prepare and fund Pilot 01

    Validate the technology platform, build partnerships, secure funding, and select the school where the first pilot will take place.

  2. Next02

    Equip and prepare the experience

    Acquire and test equipment, prepare instructors, refine the learning pathway, and ready the technical and educational operation.

  3. After that03

    Run, observe, and measure

    Deliver the pilot with 12 students and document learning, autonomy, difficulties, technical performance, and the real operating cost.

  4. Horizon04

    Build Robotics Lab v1

    Use pilot evidence to preserve, correct, or expand the experience and prepare future Center, School, and Access implementations.

The learning experience

Every error opens a new possibility.

Robotics makes decisions visible: an idea can be built, programmed, set in motion, and improved from what actually happens.

Learning by building

  1. Understand

    01

    Recognize the challenge, its conditions, and what the solution must accomplish.

  2. Design

    02

    Imagine a response and decide how to combine structure, sensors, and behavior.

  3. Build

    03

    Assemble and program a first solution capable of acting.

  4. Test

    04

    Put the robot in front of the challenge and observe how it responds in practice.

  5. Diagnose

    05

    Find differences between what was expected and what happened, then look for their causes.

  6. Correct

    06

    Adjust, try again, and explain what changed and what was learned.

The result is not only a robot that works, but a person who better understands how to face a problem and try again.

First pilot

Start at a scale that allows us to truly observe.

Pilot 01 is designed as an educational and operational validation, not an isolated demonstration. Its scale will allow us to support each student and gather evidence before expanding the program.

12
students in the first cohort
12–14
years: initial age range
1:1
active robot per student when the activity requires it

Make Pilot 01 possible

Help us take Robotics Lab from design to a real learning experience.

We are looking for organizations, schools, professionals, and individuals who want to fund, host, or strengthen the first pilot.

Donate to Robotics Lab

Let’s build the first pilot.

Tell us how you would like to participate, and let’s discuss a concrete collaboration.

Reason for contacting us

contacto@quarkfoundation.org