Dustin Vanderploeg (@d__vanderploeg) 's Twitter Profile
Dustin Vanderploeg

@d__vanderploeg

Sphero: Not just (the best) round robots.. The complete (K-12) STEM & CS Ecosystem. - Views are my own.

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Mr. Lane the STEM Guy (@kniht_tnereffid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who can hate Mondays when they look and sound like this? Our challenge today is to engineer a bridge and program Indi to cross it and return. #csforall #csk8 #stem #steam #stemed #dvusdtech #edtech #robots #makerspace #makersgonnamake Sierra Verde STEAM Academy Deer Valley Unified School District Sphero Sphero Education

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Celebrate 100 days of school with Sphero! - Program your robot to travel 100 cm - Create a looping path for indi to complete 100 laps - Engineer a device for your robot to pull 100 grams - Code a countdown to 100 - Build a 100 cm tall tower More ideas at spherocentral.com

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're excited to share that Sphero BOLT+ has won the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024! Tech & Learning's expert panel of judges scored each nomination on ease of use, value, versatility, and utility. Check out the full list of winners: bit.ly/4heEZNx

Eric Balak (@eabalak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As part of the Sphero Education Global Challenge 2024, 2nd graders at Bainbridge Elementary School etownPAschools programmed Sphero Indi to travel through their designed land of dinosaurs while sharing what they learned from research! 👀Out their final vid! 🦕 🦖 #sphero #STEAM #STEM

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy Engineers Week! 🎉 We love seeing all the creative things our community engineers with Blueprint, like this conveyor belt complete with automatic sorting based on size. Check it out!

FETC (@fetc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Career and Technical Education Month (CTE) is celebrated every February. FETC 2025 incorporated CTE through dedicated sessions and workshops, emphasizing its role in integrating academic knowledge with technical skills to prepare students for postsecondary education & careers.

Career and Technical Education Month (CTE) is celebrated every February.  FETC 2025 incorporated CTE through dedicated sessions and workshops, emphasizing its role in integrating academic knowledge with technical skills to prepare students for postsecondary education & careers.
Shannon Moore (@apsitshannon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our Pre-K students are having a blast counting by 1’s with Sphero Indi! They are coding and reinforcing early math skills in a fun, hands-on way. Learning through play at its best! Beecher Hills ES APS IT Department

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Get ready to celebrate Pi Day this Thursday with these math lessons!🥧 🔷 Perimeter and Area of Rectangles 🎲 Decimal Shake ✖️ Number Line Multiplication 📏 Distance Conversion 🗺️ Coordinate Grid Treasure Hunt Find the full collection of math activities: bit.ly/3Dee1Xl

Seawell Elementary (@seawelles) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🤠 Yeehaw! 1st graders took "The Cowgirl Who Cried Coyote" to a whole new level! They coded Sphero indi through indi Land, hitting Retelling Rollercoaster, Setting Swamp, and more! Literacy skills + coding fun = a perfect day! 🚀 #1stGrade #Coding #Literacy #SpheroIndi

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Sphero World Championship begins TODAY! After an incredible season of creativity, problem solving, and programming, 54 finalist teams are gearing up to present their projects to the judges this week. Good luck! Here’s a sneak peek at some of this season's amazing entries.

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Math ➕ BOLT+ 🟰 next level learning! 6th graders in Justin Wiedrick's class designed and coded their robots to navigate the coordinate plane. Check it out! Credit: MrWiedrick, NBCT

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Every day is 'Take Your Kid to Work Day' at Sphero! The kids of Sphero are our first product testers, co-creators of chaos, and the ultimate judges of fun, because play is serious business. Take a look at some of their creations!

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Mrs. Blake’s 4th graders were up for the STEAM challenge. They worked in 4 teams using indi cars to create individual courses. Then they were challenged to connect them all! After a lot of trial and error, they persevered and were successful!" reillypatrioteagles / Instagram

Gillian Neeson PSDO (@gillneesonpsdo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday I visited P7 & Mrs McLaughlin in St Joseph's Primary to explore unplugged computing science with Sphero Education Indi. We used problem solving, communication, collaboration, leadership & teamwork skills to create forever loops SSERCdigital RAiSE Adam Stephenson STEM @ Education Scotland

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ready to take your experience with Sphero indi to the next level? 🚙 By using the Sphero Edu Jr app to reprogram the lights, sounds, and movements of indi, students can create unique mazes, play games, and write simple songs—all while learning the basic logic of programming. 💙

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Did you know Sphero Edu is packed with hidden gems? 1️⃣ Use the Web App to code from your browser 2️⃣ Hold or right-click to access features 3️⃣ Select JavaScript to see your code translated 4️⃣ Tidy up with Clean Up Blocks 5️⃣ Use the camera button to record your robot in action

Sphero (@sphero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Heading to #ISTELive25 in San Antonio? Visit Sphero at booth #1118! ➡️ Get hands-on with BOLT+, indi, RVR+, Blueprint, and littleBits ➡️ Compete for a Sphero robot or Blueprint Engineering Kit ➡️ Be the first to see highly requested feature slithering into the Sphero Edu App 👀