{"id":5983,"date":"2021-10-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2021-10-08T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T09:32:45","slug":"gaming-bot-joins-the-digital-engineering-outreach-hub-at-uwe-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/gaming-bot-joins-the-digital-engineering-outreach-hub-at-uwe-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming bot joins the outreach hub at UWE Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UWE Bristol Alumni, Silas Adekunle, recently dropped into the School of Engineering&#8217;s education outreach hub, to donate a smartphone-controlled robot he invented whilst studying at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fluid moving, life-like robot known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mekamon.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mekamon.com\/\">MekaMon<\/a>, was the world&#8217;s first intelligent gaming robot, but it&#8217;s also an amazing tool for teaching coding, and so equipping the next generation with the skills required for a digital robotic future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With no prior coding knowledge required, children follow guided learning missions on MekaMon&#8217;s counterpart app, ReachEDU, learning to code MekaMon from simple block-based coding onto written code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A great addition to UWE Bristol&#8217;s engineering outreach hub!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/Laura-and-Silas-06.10.21_smaller-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/Laura-and-Silas-06.10.21_smaller-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/Laura-and-Silas-06.10.21_smaller-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/Laura-and-Silas-06.10.21_smaller-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/Laura-and-Silas-06.10.21_smaller-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/Laura-and-Silas-06.10.21_smaller-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/10\/Laura-and-Silas-06.10.21_smaller-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>UWE Alumni Inventor, Silas Adekunle, kindly donated a MekaMon to Laura Fogg-Rogers, Senior Lecturer and DETI Inspire lead, UWE Bristol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccuk.com\/deti\/deti-programme\/skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Engineering Technology and Innovation<\/a>\u00a0(DETI)\u00a0Inspire team based at UWE&#8217;s new School of Engineering, were thrilled to accept the locally invented tech, and even keener to start putting it to use in engaging the school children <strong>|SPOILER ALERT|<\/strong> soon due to begin visiting the digital engineering outreach hub!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Expect to hear more about school visits to UWE Bristol very soon&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing ReachEdu\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ju3d410UA8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for our Alumni extraordinaire, Silas first founded Reach Education in 2013 and has since moved into the development of cloud infrastructure for biotechnology automation in the UK. But he hasn&#8217;t forgotten his passion for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, sending MekaMon robots to Nigeria through another company he founded &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awarri.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.awarri.com\/\">Awarri<\/a> &#8211; which aims to enable the development and adaptation of advanced AI &amp; Robotics technology in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Good luck Silas and welcome to the outreach hub MekaMon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWE Bristol Alumni, Silas Adekunle, recently dropped into the School of Engineering&#8217;s education outreach hub, to donate a smartphone-controlled robot he invented whilst studying at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. The fluid moving, life-like robot known as MekaMon, was the world&#8217;s first intelligent gaming robot, but it&#8217;s also an amazing tool for teaching coding, and so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/gaming-bot-joins-the-digital-engineering-outreach-hub-at-uwe-engineering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gaming bot joins the outreach hub at UWE Engineering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":5986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,175,24,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-robotics-laboratory","category-deti","category-outreach","category-schools","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}