STEAM Carnival: Code, Explore, Create

Sphero reinvents the carnival by painting with robots

Last weekend the Sphero team traveled to San Francisco for STEAM Carnival, a high-impact event celebrating STEAM, innovation and creativity. We partnered with Popular Mechanics to create and exhibit a hands-on experience with Sphero robots that would emphasize programming and the arts.

Sphero painting has become a SPRK community favorite. Whether students are programming geometric shapes and painting with Spheros or replicating Jackson Pollock paintings, adding paint makes programming more realistic as kids can see their programs in action on paper.

At STEAM Carnival kids and families visited Sphero painting stations to learn about robotics and programming in the SPRK app. With collaboration and creativity, kids programmed Sphero robots to drive through paint and create beautiful canvases to take home with them from the carnival. Check out these spectacular photos!

Robots weren’t the only cool tech featured at STEAM Carnival San Francisco. The event showed kids that being a nerd is awesome, exposing them to new technologies from organizations including NASA, Cartoon Network, and Cisco. STEAM Carnival was all about play, virtual reality, science exploration, creation and invention.

From a dunk tank that engulfed its participant in an explosion of flames, to electric tricycle drift racing, virtual reality football, to painting with robots — STEAM Carnival was roaring with learning and excitement. But after all, learning should be noisy.