Need a robotics kit suggestion for a 10 year old

[Peter Matteson]

Thanks for the recommendations.

I was leaning to the Vex IQ for many of the reasons mentioned.
The Lego stuff was nice for going into Lego league, but I like what can be done with The IQ.

MakeBlock was the one that we found but really knew nothing about, and I wanted to see what experience people had. The arduino based control looks interesting but I think the Vex IQ might be easier to start on with the basic control code and languages available.

After trying to work with the Meccano that my parents bought for my niece at Christmas and sending it back because it would only work for about 30 seconds before saying low battery power with new batteries I was a little gun shy to go to anything without asking for opinions here.

Thanks for the help everyone.

[Rich Kressly]

Hi Peter,

You have plenty of info here already, I just wanted to add that IQ has a complete, free curriculum as well. So if you want simple ways to teach your niece gear ratio with worksheets and kits parts, want quick lessons on simple machines, if you want to show a youngster what the beginnings of an engineering notebook is like with use of the "Idea Book Pages" ... it's all completely free, downloadable, printable, and there are some embedded videos as well. www.vexiq.com/curriculum

Best wishes!