Stittsville · Ontario
Weekly LEGO SPIKE Prime, EV3, mBot2 and Quarky robotics classes for children ages 5 to 14 — taught by a competition-experienced coach right here in Stittsville. Free demo class for every new family.
STEMXplore is a Stittsville-based robotics and coding club for children ages 5 to 14. Every week, kids from Stittsville, Fernbank, Amberwood, Hazeldean and Bridlewood meet in small groups to build, wire and program real robots — not simulators, not screen-only games. Our classes are led by an instructor with more than a decade of robotics engineering and competition-coaching experience, and every child works with a genuine LEGO, mBot2 or Quarky kit.
Because we are physically located in Stittsville, families do not have to drive downtown or into Kanata Centrum to give their child a serious robotics education. Sessions are short enough to fit into a school-night schedule, and our seasonal camps line up with Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and Ottawa Catholic School Board PD Days.
Robotics is not a lecture. Kids come in, snap into their kit, and by the end of the first hour they have a working machine they can show their parents. Over a term, students progress through motorised vehicles, sensor-driven safety systems, competition-style missions and real engineering challenges.
Our youngest builders start with LEGO WeDo-style kits: colour sensors, tilt sensors and small motors. They tell a story with a robot — a lion that roars when you get too close, a spinning helicopter, a smart house that turns lights off. Coding is 100% block-based, so reading is not a prerequisite.
SPIKE Prime is the current standard for FIRST LEGO League. Kids at this level build multi-motor drivetrains, gyro-navigation systems and complete missions on a real FLL practice mat. This is where most Stittsville students first taste competition robotics.
Older students transition from block coding to text-based Python on the EV3 platform, learning conditional logic, loops, functions and PID control. This track feeds directly into our WRO competition team.
mBot2 and Quarky are our screen-free, single-board robotics kits. Students learn AI concepts — face detection, colour tracking, voice commands — that would normally require a laptop and a large kit. Popular with families who want tech that fits on a kitchen table.
A typical weekly session runs 60–90 minutes and follows a "build, code, test, iterate" cycle. Every class ends with a short showcase where kids explain what they built to the group — a small habit that has an outsized effect on communication and confidence.
Terms run in 8- and 12-week blocks. Students at the same skill level are grouped together, and every 4 weeks they get a written progress note so parents can see exactly what their child learned, from "understands sensor thresholds" to "wrote a proportional line-follower".
When Stittsville schools close for Professional Development Days or a March / Summer break, STEMXplore runs full-day camps at our Stittsville location. Camp themes rotate: LEGO Robotics Bootcamp, Mission Mars (EV3), AI for Kids, Game Coding with Scratch, and WRO / FLL preparation. Places fill quickly — families can view current dates on the Upcoming Events, Camps & PD Days section of our homepage.
Classes run at our STEMXplore Stittsville location. When you book a free demo we send full address and parking details along with the confirmation email.
Yes. The majority of our new students in Stittsville have zero prior experience. Every course begins with an on-boarding session so kids join the correct level, and we routinely have children go from "never coded" to their first working robot in one session.
Yes. Weekly terms are scheduled around the OCDSB and OCSB calendars, and full-day camps run on almost every PD Day and school break.
Yes — sibling and multi-term discounts are available. Mention that you are booking siblings in the demo form and we will apply the discount to your enrolment.
Yes. Our WRO/FLL competition training is available to intermediate and advanced students. Coaches have mentored international competition teams.
Every new family can book a complimentary demo session. Your child works with real robotics kits and our lead instructor — no pressure, no cost.
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