Hexkit Cobot Lab, the first step
Program a real industrial robot arm. Ages 11 to 18 (grades 6 to 12). No experience needed.
Registration open at theCoderSchool Irvine.
For you, ages 11 to 18
What's in it for you
a hands-on industrial cobot program for students ages 11 to 18 (grades 6 to 12)
A hands-on industrial cobot program for students ages 11 to 18 (grades 6 to 12). A real industrial robot arm. You on the teach pendant, not stuck in the back row watching someone else press the buttons.
Levels 1 to 10, afterwards
Each level ends with a certificate of completion that unlocks the next. Middle School Level 5 graduates move straight to Level 6.
Beginners
Middle School Track
Levels 1 to 5 for students with no experience needed.
- Level 1, Foundations. Cell safety, jogging, and a first pick and place.
- Level 2, Programming. Write sequences with loops and debug the program.
- Level 3, Applications. Run a job such as palletizing or a sensor sort.
- Level 4, Systems. Recover from faults and keep a cell running.
- Level 5, Engineer. Design a cell, solve a real task, and present it.
Prior experience
High School Advanced Track
For students with robotics team, CAD, CNC, or coding experience.
Industrial Cobot Bridge
You've built competition robots, now learn an industrial cobot. Safety, jogging and fundamentals on a real industrial arm before the advanced levels.
- Level 6, Industrial Scripting. Write and run scripts.
- Level 7, External Control and Integration. Command the robot from Python and connect it to other machines.
- Level 8, Perception and ROS 2. Use ROS 2 and vision to find and pick parts.
- Level 9, End-of-Arm Tooling and Cell Engineering. Design custom tooling and engineer the cell.
- Level 10, Industrial Capstone. Solve an industrial-style task and present the work.
You get the arm
Laptop camps hand you a screen. Here the work moves. You jog a 6-axis cobot, write a short program, watch that program run, and leave with the files and a video of it.
If you like music, you can program the arm to dance. You still leave with that program and a video of the arm running it, the kind of proof a robotics team asks to see.
Where this kind of arm shows up
This is an industrial cobot, the class of arm that robotics engineers program. The same kind of arm shows up around space hardware, in medical labs, and in the clean rooms of new chip and GPU plants. This weekend does not make you an astronaut, a surgeon, a fab technician, or a certified tech. You get a safety gate, then your own program on a real cell.
Later weekends can go further. This one is the first time you put your hands on the machine.
What you leave with
- Your program files. The ones you actually ran.
- A demo video. The arm, doing your program.
- A Cobot Foundations certificate of completion. Useful in a portfolio. Not an accredited credential, and not college credit.
Bring your tech-savvy friend
Bring a friend from your robotics team, or the friend who wants a spot on one. Ask questions, share a program, and compare the video you each take home. A parent joins the waitlist.
Joining the waitlist does not charge you. We will email you when dates and details are confirmed.
Questions: (949) 414-4022 · hello@hexkitacademy.com
Also: a weekend crash course for college students ages 18 to 22.