In one high-energy day, teams build a real four-wheel robot car, program it with Arduino, and teach it to drive an obstacle course on its own — ending in a live head-to-head race. No experience needed. The robot car is theirs to keep.
What You'll Build
Every team starts with a box of parts and finishes with a working autonomous robot car — a genuinely fun toy that happens to run on the same tools real engineers use: an Arduino UNO R3 brain, a motor-driver shield, four driven wheels, and sensors that let it see the world.
Four DC motors and an acrylic chassis the team assembles from scratch — a car that really moves.
The microcontroller that runs the code. Write it, upload it over USB, watch the robot obey.
A distance sensor on a scanning servo lets the car detect obstacles and look left and right.
Sense → think → act. The car drives, spots a wall, decides, and steers around it — no remote.
The Day
Meet the five parts of a robot and the Sense–Think–Act loop. Unbox, mount the motors, roll the chassis.
Wire it up, upload the first sketch. Forward, reverse, turn, stop — on command from your own code.
Add the ultrasonic sensor. The car now measures distance and reacts before it hits anything.
Combine driving, sensing, and logic. The car scans, decides, and steers around obstacles by itself.
The real engineering: test, fail, fix, retest. Dial in speed, turns, and stop distance for a clean run.
Head-to-head runs through the course, then awards — fastest, most reliable, best teamwork, best overall.
What You'll Walk Away With
Assemble a chassis, connect motors and sensors, and wire electronics safely and correctly.
Write and upload Arduino sketches — movement, sensor reading, and decisions with if-statements.
Debug, calibrate, and improve using the same test-and-iterate loop professional engineers use.
Build, troubleshoot, and race in a team of two or three — dividing the work and winning together.
Walk in a beginner, walk out having built a working autonomous robot. That feeling sticks.
A real, memorable first taste of robotics, AI, and the careers they open up.
What's Included
A complete four-wheel robot car kit — Arduino board, motors, sensors, and chassis. Built during the day and yours to keep.
Take it homeLunch is on us. Pizza for the whole cohort so the building — and the racing — never has to stop.
IncludedA full day guided by GlobalDWS instructors, with a pre-built reference car on hand and support at every step.
All dayEvery builder earns a FutureWork Academy certificate of completion to mark their first robot.
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Cancellation Policy
Full refund, no questions asked. Contact us and we will process it back to your original payment method within 5 business days.
Transfer your seat to any future build day at no cost, or take a 50% refund. Seats may also be transferred to another student.
Kits are ordered and lunch is booked, so refunds are not available. You may still transfer the seat to another student at any time before the session starts.
If GlobalDWS cancels or reschedules a session for any reason, you receive a full refund or a free transfer to another date, whichever you prefer. Questions: get in touch.
Groups & Schools
Got 10 or more builders? We bring the whole bootcamp — kits, instructors, and the race — to your school, community centre, or event. Perfect for classes, clubs, and STEM days. Venue is an additional charge; everything else is included per builder.
