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COMPANY PROFILE
Creative Robotics™ Learning Center (abbreviated to “CR8®”, pronounced “create”) is a company dedicated to prepare the youth of today for the world of tomorrow by infusing soft skills (also known as people skills, such as communication, teamwork, problem solving and observation) in a fun and exciting way. By doing so, students will not be left out in today’s fast-paced, technology-oriented world. They are the “Young Creators” that may one day engineer a better tomorrow.
In the making since 2003 (we were known as the Khong Brothers Creative Robotics™ back then), we have gathered vast experience in the field of robotics, computing, multimedia and teaching. We specialize in training both the average hobbyist and competition participants as well as supplying a range of robotic components and kits. Being among Malaysia’s robotics pioneers, our trainers have proven their skills by winning countless awards in the national and international arena.
Creative Robotics™ embraces today’s trends and has set up Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogger and a user-friendly website, CR8® Online™ to go the extra mile. Information, tips and tricks, and advice can be found on these pages.
CR8® is also a Microsoft® Partner in Learning for the Kodu Game Lab. Kodu is a visual programming language that allows anyone, even those without programming knowledge and experience, to create rich 3D games using intuitive icons to control the characters and objects with character behaviours expressed in physical terms.
Students as young as 5 can easily create simple games on their own. Kodu provides a fun and educational end-to-end creative environment for students to design, build, play and share their very own games.
To conclude: we know what we're doing, and we're very good at doing it.
Let us share some of that knowledge and experience with you (err... or your kids)!
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OUR MOTTO
Our motto “Discover Fun Engineering” should be self explanatory. However, just for you to get the gist further – consider this: many youth and some adults seem to think that engineers wear safety helmets, big yellow boots and go around building buildings – that’s only partially correct!
The engineers previously mentioned are CIVIL engineers – the heroes who build the buildings WE live comfortably in! In total, there are actually 11 types of engineers, each classified according to the work that they do. For a more detailed description of engineers, click here.
Unfortunately, a huge amount of people also think that engineering is a boring field that is choked with calculations and theory – they’re also only partly correct. Unless you’re studying pure Calculus, the most useful calculation you’ll need is good ol’ Ohm’s Law (you know, the V=IR thing).
Hence, we put Fun and Engineering together and hence came up with a recipe for youth (and grown-ups alike) to:
At Creative Robotics™ Learning Center, we promote students to have fun with other students as well as have hands-on (not virtual) experience in building simple to advanced hobby robots (not multi-million dollar top-secret beta prototypes), where they’ll learn through trial & error the ‘sense’ of what-can-be-done-and-what-cannot-be-done with the resources they have.
Needless to say, when exposed to these professional environments at young ages, imagine how that individual’s view of professionalism (in any field, not just in engineering) will grow and expand – leading him/her to push his/her skill, communication, creativity and knowledge boundaries rapidly!!! Try to imagine this – our (generation’s) “hi-tech” today will become their (children’s) “prehistoric” tomorrow! This may seem funny, but it is the truth.
Robotics and the concept of the PR (Personal Robot) is going to be the next big thing - just as the PC (Personal Computer) was a number of years back. Mankind is always looking to make things easier - what can be easier and more convenient than a personal robot performing every chore for us?
Read more on personal robots here
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