Organizing multiple kits?

[Andrew Rudolph]

I never did it with RIS systems but we did the robolab kits. I had like 6 kits, and i established very early on that trading or getting parts from other kits was not permitted. Then i made sure the kids understood they were responsible for the kits. Finally i had them always do a quick inventory with the included cards in case anything was missing. But they were 4th graders. Best thing you can do is just make sure they put them away the same way, gears in a certain spot so on and so on, then you can glance over them and make sure that all the pieces are there. If all else fails you just gotta join all the kits together then sort everything by part. So you know that at the end of the day you are supposed to have 16 60 tooth gears in a bin.