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🤖 Advanced Robotics · Year-end Exhibition

Advanced Robotics — from precise control to intelligent navigation

PID control, sensor fusion, ROS, path-planning, computer vision integration — the toolkit of professional robotics, taught hands-on in our bilingual online classes. For students who finished Basic Robotics or have equivalent experience.

📚 4 seasons ⏱ 110 hours/year 📦 Advanced kit shipped worldwide 🎪 Year-end exhibition
Open enrollment — Autumn season starts soonFree 90-minute placement + trial class.
Advanced robotics
Choose your child's age band.

For under-10 who already finished Basic Robotics, this is a bridge year. Same friendly kit, deeper concepts — sensors, simple loops, first contact with text-based code.

One-year path — elementary track

Bridge year for advanced kids.

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Season 1 — Autumn

Logic + loops

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • Loops, conditions, variables in blocks
  • First lines of MicroPython
  • Smarter robot behaviors
  • Debugging strategies for kids
  • Project — robot that "thinks"
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End of Season 1A robot with branching logic + Season 1 certificate.
❄️
Season 2 — Winter

More sensors, more senses

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • Gyro + accelerometer intro
  • Multiple sensors at once
  • Reactive behaviors
  • Voice commands (Bluetooth mic)
  • Sensor scavenger hunt
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End of Season 2Voice-reactive robot + Season 2 certificate.
🌸
Season 3 — Spring

Challenges + teams

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • Tougher maze + line challenges
  • Team coding with one classmate
  • Robot stories / drama
  • Documentation in a kid notebook
  • Mini-competitions in class
End of Season 3Team challenge complete + Season 3 certificate.
🎪 Exhibition
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Season 4 — Summer

Showcase

Bootcamp + online exhibition
  • Final project of their choice
  • Pre-bootcamp polish
  • Online exhibition with diaspora families
  • Encouragement to enter Rescue Junior next year
  • Awards from peer judges
🥇
End of yearAnnual diploma + portfolio.

For 10–14, this is where real engineering begins. PID control, sensor fusion, mapping, first ROS exposure. By year-end, your child is solving problems that university robotics clubs work on.

One-year path — middle school track

Real engineering at teen pace.

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Season 1 — Autumn

Control theory + PID

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • Why pure on/off control fails
  • Proportional → PI → PID tuning
  • Practical PID on line-follower
  • Logging + plotting sensor data
  • Calibration days
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End of Season 1Tuned PID line-follower + technical report + Season 1 certificate.
❄️
Season 2 — Winter

Sensor fusion + odometry

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • IMU (gyro + accel) + Kalman filter intro
  • Wheel encoders + odometry
  • Dead-reckoning navigation
  • Combining sensors for robust state
  • Mini-SLAM on a small grid
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End of Season 2Robot that knows where it is + Season 2 certificate.
🌸
Season 3 — Spring

ROS + vision

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • Micro-ROS / ROS 2 basics — nodes, topics
  • OpenCV intro: color, shape, ArUco markers
  • Pi camera / USB cam integration
  • Object-following behavior
  • Path-planning (A*) intro
👁️
End of Season 3Vision-guided robot + Season 3 certificate.
🎪 Exhibition
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Season 4 — Summer

Capstone + exhibition

Bootcamp + online exhibition
  • Pick a real-world capstone problem
  • Full engineering notebook
  • Live online demo at the exhibition
  • Judges' feedback for next year's path
  • Bridge into competitive leagues
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End of yearAnnual diploma + portfolio + capstone ready for competitive teams.

For 14–19, this is university-prep-grade robotics. ROS 2, advanced control, SLAM, ML on the edge — the stack used at top engineering programs and FIRST/RoboCup teams worldwide.

One-year path — high school track

University-prep depth.

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Season 1 — Autumn

Advanced control + ROS 2

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • ROS 2 — nodes, services, actions, lifecycles
  • Advanced PID + state-space controllers
  • Trajectory generation
  • STM32 / ESP32 with FreeRTOS
  • Engineering notebook discipline
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End of Season 1ROS 2 stack running on custom robot + Season 1 certificate.
❄️
Season 2 — Winter

SLAM + perception

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • Lidar + depth cameras
  • 2D SLAM (gmapping, slam_toolbox)
  • Localization (AMCL)
  • Point cloud basics
  • Computer vision for robotics (OpenCV + ML)
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End of Season 2Robot building maps in real-time + Season 2 certificate.
🌸
Season 3 — Spring

ML on the edge + manipulation

24 class hours + 1 workshop
  • TensorFlow Lite on edge devices
  • YOLO / object detection for robots
  • Simple manipulator arm (kinematics)
  • Inverse kinematics intro
  • Reinforcement learning intro (sim)
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End of Season 3ML-powered robot behavior + Season 3 certificate.
🎪 Exhibition
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Season 4 — Summer

Capstone + global exhibition

Bootcamp + global online exhibition
  • Research-grade capstone (paper-quality writeup)
  • Live demo + technical Q&A with judges
  • Submission to youth robotics venues
  • University application portfolio prep
  • Bridge to FIRST/RoboCup/RCAP competitive teams
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End of yearAnnual diploma + research-grade portfolio.
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🇨🇦 Toronto
Diaspora alumni stories

Advanced Robotics → University of Toronto engineering

Matin started in our Basic Robotics from Tehran. He immigrated to Canada, continued online from Toronto, and finished Advanced Robotics with a SLAM-based capstone. He's now a sophomore in U of T's robotics engineering program.

"My U of T interview was about the SLAM project I built in Novin Zehn's Advanced class. The bilingual instruction meant I could explain it crisply in both languages."

🏅 Advanced Robotics certificates

Official Novin Zehn certificate each season + annual diploma + portfolio recognized by competitive teams and engineering schools worldwide.

1Autumn certificate
2Winter certificate
3Spring certificate
4Annual diploma + capstone

📞 Book your free trial class

A teacher chats with your child for 90 minutes and verifies they're ready for Advanced. If not, we recommend Basic first.

Common questions

What parents abroad ask us

Does my child need Basic Robotics first?

Recommended. Equivalent experience (block coding + at least one Arduino project) is also accepted. We do a free placement check.

What's in the advanced kit?

STM32/ESP32-based chassis, IMU, encoders, lidar (mini), camera, full sensor pack, and connection to ROS workstation.

Are ROS classes too hard for teens?

We've taught ROS 2 to 12-year-olds successfully. Pace adapts to age band.

What if my child wants to compete?

By the end of year one, they'll be qualified for Iran Open Junior, RoboCup Junior, and FIRA leagues. We help with team formation.

Can my child join mid-year?

Yes. 2-week onboarding + tutoring for the missed material.