Good afternoon, colleagues.
As you know, the VEX GO educational solution is officially recommended for students in grades 3–5. However, I decided to conduct a small experiment and try working with this platform with slightly younger children.
I organized several focus groups with children aged 6–8 and launched an experimental course with them. Within this course, I used only my own custom models, which many of you are already familiar with.
And I would like to share the following conclusion: the results of this experiment were very interesting and quite positive. I can confidently say that children from the age of 6, with the right teaching approach, properly selected instructional methods, an appropriate level of instruction complexity, and simple beginner-level programming tasks, handled the work very successfully.
I would also like to emphasize that this was not just one group. I worked with several groups, and the results were consistent. With the correct methodology, properly structured instructions, an appropriate number of building steps, and age-adapted tasks, children even below 3rd grade are absolutely capable of working successfully with VEX GO.
For younger children aged 6–7, programming may not be the primary focus, but for children aged 7–8, Scratch-based programming works extremely well.
So if anyone is interested in this topic, feel free to contact me, and I will gladly share more information about using VEX GO with younger students than officially recommended in the documentation.
Thank you.
