Wizbots Imagineering For kids

Specialties

Operating at various school campuses around the San Francisco Bay Area, Wizbots offers engaging, robotics-​based design programs for boys and girls, ages 7 – 14. We operate year-​round and provide fun after school programs, summer camps, and birthday parties.

Wizbots after school Imagineering Labs engage kids in product design, tech challenges, team games, and open-​ended creativity. Access to a wide range of materials, including sophisticated programming and LEGO robotics components, ensures kids of all abilities can be challenged and successful while advancing their powers of innovation. Each season, kids attend the Lab once a week, for 90 minutes at a time. You can find our labs in participating schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Summer camps are even bigger and better: more time, more space, more projects, more materials, and more kids to hang with. We have convenient locations across the Bay Area.

History

Established in 2010.

The founder, Conor M, started Wizbots because he saw that robotics could be made accessible and meaningful to kids, and that this could transform their perspectives on learning. He was inspired by his own kids.

Meet the Business Owner

Conor M.

Business Owner

Conor has been a practicing engineer for over 20 years. He received his Bachelors in Mathematics and Engineering from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and his PhD in Computer Science from that same institution. He was a founder and CEO of a software company after college, and then moved on to join the Internet wave in Austin, Texas. He got into robotics when he joined NASA in 2002 and has never looked back. Since then he has been an active researcher in the robotics community, having developed cutting edge technologies that have been used on Mars Rovers (while he worked at NASA), undersea autonomous vehicles (at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) and personal robots (at Willow Garage).