{"id":1455,"date":"2017-05-03T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:24:14","slug":"bbc-radio-wales-children-make-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/robot\/bbc-radio-wales-children-make-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio Wales: Children make robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/pgrz\/bbcradiocroestyextract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC Radio Wales Art Show<\/a> came to interview children and staff on the last day of a 10 weeks project where we made sort of robots from old PCs and bits and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/robot\/microbit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC micro:bits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/336483321&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyBots.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyBots-1024x451.jpg\" alt=\"croestyBots\" width=\"860\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyBots-1024x451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyBots-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyBots.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The project was part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arts.wales\/creative-learning\/about-creative-learning\/lead-creative-schools-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lead Creative Schools<\/a> run by the Arts Council of Wales. Aimed at promoting a creative approach to teaching and life, the scheme allows a class to work with a creative practitioner for approximately 10 teaching days on a made to measure project. Check the scheme out, you can apply to take part in the next round if you are a school, teacher, or creative practitioner based in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Good vibes all along, ace dodgy robots, enthusiatic young makers, this was a fine adventure! Thanks to all involved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyBot1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyBot1-926x1024.jpg\" alt=\"croestyBot1\" width=\"860\" height=\"951\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyRobotDetail.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/croestyRobotDetail-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"croestyRobotDetail\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio Wales Art Show came to interview children and staff on the last day of a 10 weeks project where we made sort of robots from old PCs and bits and BBC micro:bits &nbsp; The project was part of the\u00a0Lead Creative Schools run by the Arts Council of Wales. Aimed at promoting a creative approach to teaching and life,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,29,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}