Students can program the Bee-Bot to go up, down, left, right and pause. They decompose — or breakdown — the steps into instructions they program into the Bee-Bot.

THOMASVILLE— Thomas County first graders at Garrison-Pilcher Elementary School use Bee-Bot, a programmable robot, to teach the basics of coding. In this spring-themed introductory lesson ...

Roberts said her school borrowed 144 of the Bee-Bots from The Education Partnership in Pittsburgh. “STEM is something our kids don’t have a lot of hands-on experience with,” Roberts said.

Mastering Bee Bots and Dash skills Mast explained that when Pringle came in to demonstrate the program at the beginning of the year, the students were divided into groups.