Sphero Robots

Sphero BOLT™ is an app-enabled robotic ball that provides endless opportunities to be creative and have fun while learning. Program with the Sphero Edu app from nearly any mobile or desktop device, discover awesome community-created activities, or just drive and play. BOLT™ was built to shine with a brilliant 8×8 LED Matrix that animates and displays real-time data. Create and customize games and learn to code by drawing on your screen, using Scratch™ blocks, or writing JavaScript text programs.

Use advanced sensors to keep tabs on BOLT’s speed, acceleration, and direction, or orient and drive BOLT™ with the built-in compass. BOLT also features infrared communication, allowing your robot to “communicate” with other BOLT's, enabling brand new games and advanced coding tactics. Equipped with Bluetooth SMART and a durable, waterproof shell, Sphero BOLT™ establishes a striking new way to learn and play.

RVR+ is Sphero’s revolutionary take on the programmable robot and is optimized for the middle and high school classrooms and makerspaces. It’s drivable right out of the box, packed with a diverse suite of sensors, and built for customization. RVR+ is expandable and made for novice to advanced programmers. Students learn coding skills and computer science basics with the free Sphero Edu app or advanced programmers can level up with the Public Sphero SDK to program with Python and connect third-party hardware.

Sphero Mini packs tons of fun into a tiny, app-enabled robotic ball. Drive, play games, learn to code, and more. Packed with teeny tiny tech, Sphero Mini has a little gyroscope, accelerometer, and LED lights. With almost an hour of play time, Sphero Mini is the next big thing. Colourful, interchangeable shells are available, so you can easily switch one out to suit your mood.

The most approachable, entry-level, learning robot for kids. indi™ inspires imaginative play-based learning by empowering kids to design and build their own mazes while teaching critical problem-solving and computational thinking skills. With its on-board colour sensor and colour cards, indi™ provides endless opportunities to rev kids’ creativity with or without the need of an app.

Build custom mazes, solve puzzles, and take control of the wheel to drive. Teach coding concepts to beginners and kick programming into high gear with even more options to spark interest in computer science in the free Sphero Edu Jr™ App. Buckle up and watch indi™ go!

This two-sided mat offers a simple, accessible way to learn block-based coding, basic math principles, and collaborative problem-solving with any round Sphero robot. The Code Mat comes with three sets of 10 double-sided coding cards that provide guided, hands-on coding lessons. Choose Sphero City and Golf Code Mat to tee up your Sphero robot and take a swing while exploring concepts like distance, speed, math fundamentals, and basic coding or program your robot to navigate around Sphero City using draw, blocks, or text programming. Choose Sphero Space and Soccer Code Mat and blast off into orbit and explore the solar system with Sphero Outer Space while gaining the foundations for computational thinking or dribble down the field in hopes of programming a goal for your team with Sphero Soccer Pitch.

This course will take you into a deep dive into Draw, Block Based programming, and JavaScript text programming. It will be wrapped up with suggested classroom applications for all grade levels, experience and content areas. In addition, you’ll get exclusive access to Sphero content that no one else has! Don’t hesitate to grow your skills. Sign up today!

Computer Science Foundations (CSF) is a supplemental, standards-aligned curriculum designed to be taught in the classroom alongside our robots. By the end of course 1, students will be able to demonstrate proficiency with the draw canvas and know how to use block programs to manipulate lights and sounds, and create loops and conditionals.

In Course 1, students will demonstrate proficiency with the Draw Canvas and know how to use block programs to manipulate lights and sounds and create loops and conditionals.

Using Sphero robots, students will use the Draw and Block Canvas to paint, write poetry, compose music, and dance.
As students progress to programming with blocks, they’ll learn how to connect numbers in equations, play dice games, design guessing games, and create their own figure skating routines. Students will also use their polycarbonate robotic ball to understand the natural world by mimicking the movement of animals, programming a school of fish, and modelling sleep patterns.

Teachers can access every lesson in the Sphero Edu app by scanning the QR code or by navigating to the CS Foundations tab under ‘Activities’ in the app. Teachers can then assign individual lessons to each student’s Workbook. Many lessons have pre-loaded blocks so students can start coding right away.

Computer Science Foundations (CSF) is a supplemental, standards-aligned curriculum designed to be taught in the classroom alongside our robots. By the end of course 2, students will demonstrate a mastery of block programming by manipulating sensors, loops, conditionals, variables, and functions. taught in the classroom alongside our robots. By the end of course 2, students will demonstrate a mastery of block programming by manipulating sensors, loops, conditionals, variables, and functions.

With their robots and Block programming skills, students will learn to communicate clearly with their partners, offer praise and encouragement, and grow their classroom community. In this series of Block lessons, students will use their Sphero robots to represent the elements of a story, develop dialogue, retell historical events, and even overcome writer’s block. Students can also bring out their inner gamer through a series of lessons designed to develop your Block programming skills—play Bingo, search for hidden treasure and build your own set of dice.

Teachers can access every lesson in the Sphero Edu app by scanning the QR code or by navigating to the CS Foundations tab under ‘Activities’ in the app. Teachers can then assign individual lessons to each student’s Workbook. Many lessons have pre-loaded blocks so students can start coding right away.

Computer Science Foundations (CSF) is a supplemental, standards-aligned curriculum designed to be taught in the classroom alongside our robots. By the end of course 3, students will be able to develop complex programs with the Block Canvas and rewrite simple block programs in JavaScript.

In this series of lessons, students will become critical thinkers and problem-solvers as they puzzle through obstacle courses, lockboxes, secret codes, and more. From exploring how animals migrate to planning a road trip, the series of navigation lessons brings the world of navigation to life for students through hands-on programming with their Sphero robots. Using the Brain Breakers theme, students develop their problem-solving and collaboration skills while creating secret codes, solving riddles and cracking a bank robbery.

Teachers can access every lesson in the Sphero Edu app by scanning the QR code or by navigating to the CS Foundations tab under ‘Activities’ in the app. Teachers can then assign individual lessons to each student’s Workbook. Many lessons have pre-loaded blocks so students can start coding right away.

Computer Science Foundations (CSF) is a supplemental, standards-aligned curriculum designed to be taught in the classroom with our robots. Across 3 courses and 72 lessons, teachers and students will explore STEAM principles through creative coding.

By the end of these courses, students will demonstrate a mastery of block programming by manipulating sensors, loops, conditionals, variables, and functions, and rewrite simple block programs in JavaScript. Includes a perpetual license to all digital student facing materials and content.

In Course 1, students will demonstrate proficiency with the Draw Canvas and know how to use block programs to manipulate lights and sounds and create loops and conditionals. This Course includes using Sphero to explore the arts, shapes and numbers and even nature.

In Course 2, students will demonstrate a mastery of block programming by manipulating sensors, loops, conditionals, variables, and functions. They will also understand block to text transitions. The 2nd Course contains lessons in empathy and communication, storytelling and game design.

In Course 3, students will be able to develop complex programs with the Block Canvas and rewrite simple block programs in JavaScript. In this series of lessons, students will become critical thinkers and problem-solvers as they puzzle through obstacle courses, lockboxes, secret codes, and more. They will also explore their skills in navigation and in the Brain Breakers theme, students will use problem-solving and collaboration skills while creating secret codes, solving riddles and cracking a bank robbery.

Teachers can access every lesson in the Sphero Edu app by scanning the QR code or by navigating to the CS Foundations tab under ‘Activities’ in the app. Teachers can then assign individual lessons to each student’s Workbook. Many lessons have pre-loaded blocks so students can start coding right away.