Bot Battle at iCode in Bridgewater
Battle of the Bots at iCode, Bridgewater’s new learning center, opens Saturday, April 22 at 11 a.m. on Prince Rogers Avenue, where kids and teens can build and program robots, video games, and more. increase.
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BRIDGEWATER – Two robots looking down at each other without blinking. Their only goal is to push the opponent out of the green fight his ring and be the last bot in the bot fight. The cheers of the small crowd are electric as one bot is pushed out and another of his is named the winner.
The scene is familiar at iCode, the new learning center that opened on Prince Rogers Avenue on Saturday. Here your child or her teens can build and program robots, video games and more while learning important his STEM skills, time management, teamwork, presentation and communication skills. .
The Bridgewater location is Somerset County’s first iCode and is owned and operated by local residents Kalash Keote and his wife and co-founder Sangeeta Gupta.
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“I have 13-year-old twins and I started looking for a STEM program that they would be engrossed in,” explains Keote.
He couldn’t find anything in the field with a solid, fun, instructor-led curriculum that would keep kids occupied, so after discovering the Dallas-based iCode company, he saw an opportunity and started a franchise. They said they started their own.
The program is endorsed by industry experts and continuously improved, so kids and teens are always learning the latest technology techniques.
Both Keote and Gupta have extensive IT backgrounds and know the importance of developing skills at a young age, especially to keep up with the rise of AI technology.
“If you are exposed to a wide range of technologies at a young age, you are attuned to that kind of thinking and can adapt to any future changes in the workforce,” says Keote.
Kids and teens ages 6 to 15 look forward to participating in the martial arts-inspired iCode belt program. The student will move up the belt rankings, learn coding and other aspects of his STEM skills. We also have Path programs for ages 8-18, which are 3-4 months of single-topic-focused curriculum, such as learning how to code games like Roblox and Minecraft. There are also Anytime programs that are more flexible and teach children how to develop their own video games.
iCode also offers STEM and coding camps during summer, spring break, or other school holidays. Coding and modding video games, pitching products on Shark Tank, coding drones, learning the basics of making YouTube videos, virtual reality programming, robotics, digital animation, web development, and much more.
The company also works with local schools to bring STEM education directly to schoolchildren, beginning with Angelo L. Tommaso Elementary School in Warren. iCode provides and teaches schools with its curriculum and facilities. We also have a digital art course as part of our after school program. We also plan to introduce the program into the Somerset County Library System.
In the future, Keote and Gupta hope to launch an esports gaming league that will compete between different campuses across the country.
But for now, we are running free trial classes and camps so all ages can experience it for themselves.
“Experience it yourself,” said Keete. “See how different we are. I’m sure you’ll love it here.”
if you go
Bridgewater iCode
where: 1327 Prince Rogers Avenue.
contact: 908-300-3110, icodeschool.com/bridgewater
Email: alewis@gannett.com
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