RIPPLE EFFECT
Our Free Courses
As part of our Making a Splash in STEM Initiative, we launched Ripple Effect, our free, hands-on course platform designed to introduce students to STEM in an engaging and accessible way. First Bite focuses on helping learners build real technical skills through structured, project-based lessons that emphasize creativity, problem-solving, and confidence-building. Each course is designed to guide students step-by-step from foundational concepts to more advanced challenges, allowing them to learn at their own pace while applying what they learn to real-world projects.
Ripple Effect is used by students independently as well as in robotics teams looking to supplement their STEM curriculum with practical, interactive learning experiences. Educators and mentors can also incorporate these courses directly into their programs to support student growth and engagement in engineering and computer science.
If you are interested in using Ripple Effect within your classroom, club, or organization, or would like to learn more about how it can support your STEM program, feel free to reach out to us at Team33574@penguincodingschool.com. We also welcome students and teams who complete our courses to share their projects and progress with us—we love seeing what learners build and how they apply their skills in creative ways.
FLL Coding Manual
Welcome to the Baby Sharks FLL Coding Course! We built this course for anyone jumping into robotics with the LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Set. Whether you are brand new to coding or gearing up for FLL, this course will walk you through everything you need to know to build and program robots that move, sense their surroundings, and respond to the world around them.
Every lesson covers real robotics and coding concepts while keeping things hands on and fun. You will learn how to control motors, work with touch, color, distance, and gyro sensors, and program lights, sounds, and displays on the hub. Along the way you will also build up core programming skills including loops, conditionals, variables, and timers.
By testing and improving your robots throughout the course, you will develop the problem-solving and engineering mindset that makes a great robotics programmer. The course wraps up with a final project where you design and program a robot that can detect and avoid obstacles completely on its own, putting everything you learned to the test.
Baby Sharks Intro to Python Course
This is the Baby Sharks Intro to Python Course! We built this course to make coding approachable, fun, and completely free for anyone who wants to learn. Whether you are a total beginner or just getting started, this course will guide you through the core building blocks of Python: variables, data types, loops, functions, conditionals, and more.
Every lesson is packed with real examples and hands-on challenges, because the best way to learn programming is to actually write code and see what happens. You will go from running your very first print statement all the way to designing and building a complete program from scratch. By the end, you will not just know how to code. You will know how to think like a programmer.
Intro to Engineering Course
Welcome to the Baby Sharks Engineering Course! This free course is designed for students ages 9 to 12, but anyone curious about robotics is welcome to jump in. We'll walk you through the fundamentals of how robots actually work: motors, sensors, gears, simple machines, movement, and the basic coding logic that ties it all together.
Every lesson comes with hands-on challenges to test what you've learned, because the best way to understand engineering is to actually do it. You'll go from exploring individual components all the way to thinking about how complete robots are designed and built. By the end, you won't just know robotics. You'll have the mindset to keep experimenting, problem-solving, and building long after the course is done.
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