Kids can add robotic capabilities to their Strawbees inventions with a micro:bit and a Robotics Board. This bundle also comes with access to the Strawbees Classroom platform, the entire building and coding solution (micro:bits included), challenge cards, and a storage unit.
Strawbees Classroom: Start out exploring Strawbees Classroom, the digital Strawbees platform that's made for teachers by teachers. These curriculum-aligned, class-ready lessons help educators get started with invention-based instruction quickly and easily.
STEAM School Kit: The most massive Strawbees construction kit, the bundle includes well over 4,000 pieces—enough for an entire class full of students. They could build a large cityscape, a rollercoaster track for a ball to run through, a pyramid structure taller than you, and create the world-famous Strawbees mechanical arms and claws. The building set comes with five different sizes of pre-cut straws and four types of color-coded connectors in a box with pull-out trays for added organization.
This kit comes with two micro:bit V2 Club 10 Packs and two Robotic Inventions for the micro:bit 10 Packs. Your micro:bit joins forces with the Robotic Inventions board, enabling children to add amazing robotic capabilities to any Strawbees projects and the Robotics board features two RGB LEDs, allowing students to attach up to two servo motors to any of their Strawbees builds.
Students can design programs in Microsoft's block-based MakeCode programming platform, upload it, and remove it from the computer to run on batteries.
Pocketful of Ideas Card Deck: Students can progress through 100+ story-based challenges. They can even win prizes when entering their inventions in the monthly #strawbeeschallenge.
What's in the Box:
Strawbees Classroom
Curriculum-aligned lessons (Common Core ELA, Common Core Mathematics, NGSS, SDGs)
Strawbees walkthrough webinars
Regular onboarding webinars
Student-facing resources
Recorded webinars
Onboarding videos
Supporting articles
Explorations
Activities
STEAM School Kit
Connectors - 1-leg Blue: 1,024
Connectors - 2-leg Yellow: 512
Connectors - 3-leg Green: 512
Connectors - 5-leg Red: 256
Building straws - 240 mm Blue: 512
Building straws - 205 mm Green: 360
Building straws - 112 mm Pink: 512
Building straws - 80 mm Orange: 256
Building straws - 48 mm Yellow: 256
1 Pocketful of Ideas Card Deck
2 Posters
160 Clips
2 micro:bit V2 Club - 10 Packs
20 BBC micro:bits
20 AAA battery holders
40 AAA batteries
20 USB cables
2 Robotics Inventions for the micro:bit - 10 Packs