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Curriculum
Why we built the simulators before the kits
Hardware was always the plan. It just wasn't going to be the entry point, because a hardware seat per student is the thing that makes STEAM unaffordable at scale.
Classroom practice
How we grade a half-working robot
The rubric doesn't ask whether the robot works. It asks whether the student can explain why it doesn't — which turns out to be a harder and more useful question.
Product
What broke in the first Digital Pod, and what we changed
The first deployment survived intermittent power. It did not survive the dust. Revision two is a different unit because of one site visit.
Programme news
Safeguarding is not a checkbox
Every instructor is vetted before their first session, not before their first term. Here's what changed operationally to make that the default rather than the exception.
Programme news
Why open days need no booking
A booking form on an open day filters out exactly the parents who most need to see a session before deciding anything — the ones still deciding whether to trust us at all.
Research
Measuring outcomes, not attendance
A seat filled for ten weeks is not the same as a skill learned. The M&E framework was rebuilt around the second thing, and it made the numbers less impressive to report.
Classroom practice
A fifteen-year-old won't read a page called "Opportunities"
Student Ambassador applications were live for months before a single student found them, because they were sitting on a page built for adults job-hunting.
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