RoboYouth Taiwan
Educate · Empower · Inspire
Bringing robotics to every student in Taiwan
We bridge regional resource gaps and make hands-on robotics education accessible to students across Taiwan, regardless of location or background.
Our mission
Robot kits are expensive, and the schools that already own them are usually the schools that already have everything else. Children in smaller towns and rural areas are not less curious and not less capable. Nobody has put a robot in front of them.
So most of the work is logistics: packing kits into bags, getting a team of high-school students onto a train, and setting up in whatever room a school can spare. Since 2024 that has meant elementary schools, churches, hospital wards and after-school centres, from Taipei down to Taitung. Most of the children are primary-school age, and for many of them a session is the first time they have held a robot, let alone told one what to do.
We go to them
We bring the kits, the laptops and the volunteers to schools, churches, hospitals, after-school programs and community spaces anywhere in Taiwan we can reach, rather than waiting to be found.
It costs nothing
We have never charged a school, a church or any other venue, and we do not intend to. A budget should not decide which children get to try this.
We leave it behind
Our curriculum is published for anyone to use, and we train local teams and volunteers to run it themselves, so a community is not waiting on us to return.
What we run
Build a robot, program it, take on the missions
Children build a robot, program it, and take on mission challenges from the current FIRST LEGO League season. Weekly for two to three months in Taipei, or over consecutive days when we travel.
Nothing arrives pre-built. The children snap the beams together themselves, work out why the robot turned too far, and try the run again. Most of a session goes on that: a wheel that slips, a sensor that fires late, and one more attempt before the mat is clear.
Build it
Children assemble a driving base from scratch, learning which motors are wheels and which drive an attachment.
Program it
Children write their first program in blocks, run it, and watch what the robot actually does rather than what they expected.
Compete
Mission challenges from the current FIRST LEGO League season close the session. This is the part where a child who said "I can't" is suddenly explaining their solution to the room.
From our sessions
What a session looks like
Open by default
Everything we teach is open sourced
We are a nonprofit, so every lesson we teach is free for any teacher, any school and any other group to use, including groups that will never meet us. The slide decks our volunteers teach from, the SPIKE Prime lesson plans and the trainer our students practise on all go up the way we actually use them, rather than a tidied version made for show. Take a deck, change whatever suits your own class, and run it without asking us first.
