The Curriculum

Arduino Challenge Series (1–10) for the Maker Track. Complete each hands-on challenge to build hardware and coding confidence.

Arduino Challenge Series (11–20): LED chase sequences and custom light patterns. Build on Challenges 1–10 with multi-LED programming.

Arduino Challenge Series (21–30): Interactive Electronics. By the end of these challenges, learners progress from simply controlling outputs to creating interactive electronic systems. They learn to work with digital inputs (push buttons), analog inputs (potentiometers), PWM outputs, serial communication, RGB LEDs, and state-based programming — laying the foundation for sensors, robotics, IoT, and embedded systems. This module represents the transition from making circuits to building responsive electronic projects.

Arduino Challenge Series (31–40): Sensing the Real World. Until now, you have learned how to control LEDs, buzzers, and other electronic components using Arduino. In this session, your Arduino begins to observe the world around it. You will learn how different sensors convert light, distance, temperature, and motion into electrical signals that a computer can understand. By the end of this session, you will be able to build interactive systems that respond automatically to changes in their environment.

Arduino Challenge Series (41–50): Displaying Information. Your Arduino can now sense the environment using different sensors. In this session, you will learn how to present that information to people. You will explore different display devices, including LEDs, seven-segment displays, LCD screens, and the Serial Plotter. By the end of this session, you will be able to design interactive systems that not only sense the world but also communicate useful information clearly.

Arduino Challenge Series (51–60): Motion & Wireless Control. Your Arduino can now sense the environment and display useful information. In this session, you will learn how Arduino can create physical movement and receive commands from outside the computer. You will explore servo motors, DC motors, motor drivers, and Bluetooth communication. By the end of this session, you will be able to control movement, change motor speed and direction, and build a simple wirelessly controlled machine.

Arduino Challenge Series (61–70): Smarter Programming & Timing. Until now, many Arduino programs have used delay() to control timing. While delay() is useful for simple experiments, it makes Arduino wait and can prevent other tasks from responding immediately. In this session, students will learn how to use millis() to measure time without stopping the entire program. They will build systems where LEDs can blink, servos can move, sensors can be read, and buttons can respond without one task unnecessarily blocking another. By the end of this session, students will begin thinking of Arduino programs as multiple behaviours working together.

Arduino Challenge Series (71–80): Advanced Sensors & Smart Decisions. Your Arduino can now control outputs, read basic sensors, display information, create movement, communicate wirelessly, and manage multiple tasks using smarter timing. In this session, students will explore a wider range of sensors that detect conditions in the real world. They will learn that a sensor is not useful by itself—the real value comes from interpreting information and making the right decision. Students will gradually progress from one sensor and one decision to multiple sensors, compared conditions, and smart prioritized decisions. By the end of this session, students will be able to design automatic systems that monitor their environment and respond to changing conditions.

Arduino Challenge Series (81–90): Robotics Systems. Until now, students have learned how to control individual motors, read sensors, make decisions, communicate using Bluetooth, and run multiple behaviours without blocking the program. In this session, students bring these separate skills together to understand a bigger idea: a robot is not one component — a robot is a system. Students will learn how two motors work together to create movement, how sensors provide information about the environment, and how Arduino makes decisions that control the robot. By the end of this session, students will progress from manually moving a robot to building robots that can react to and navigate their environment.

Arduino Challenge Series (91–100): Real Projects & Integration. Over the previous nine sessions, students have learned individual electronic components, sensors, displays, motors, communication, smarter programming, decision-making, and robotics. In this final session, the focus changes — students are no longer learning one component at a time. They are learning how to combine components to solve a real problem. The progression is: Component → System → Project → Problem → Solution → Original Invention. By the end of this session, students will be able to independently think about a problem, select appropriate components, design a system, build it, program it, test it, improve it, and explain how it works.

Session 1: Spatial Design Challenges 1–10. Theme: See, Represent and Build in 3D. Students practice spatial reasoning through making, observing, drawing, reconstructing, and transforming objects — with Tinkercad as the digital design environment when needed.

Session 2: Spatial Design Challenges 11–20. Theme: Control and Reason About Space. Students move from creating objects to controlling size, proportion, fit, clearance, and constraints — with measurement, communication, inference, and iteration.

Session 3: Spatial Design Challenges 21–30. Theme: Think in Parts, Assemblies and Movement. Students move from single objects to multi-part systems — connecting, assembling, constraining, and transferring movement between parts.

Session 4: Spatial Design Challenges 31–40. Theme: Mechanisms, Structures and Engineering Thinking. Students explore controlled movement, motion transfer and transformation, mechanical ratios, stability, strength, and integrated structure-mechanism systems.

Session 5: Spatial Design Challenges 41–50. Theme: Design, Prototype, Test and Invent. Students bring spatial design skills together for open-ended product design — sketch to CAD, prototyping, testing, user-centered design, and independent invention.