There are tons of games out there that claim to teach even the youngest of children how to code. One of our favorite’s is Kodable. Our 6 year old daughter has been playing Kodable for nearly two years. It’s a wonderful game and it it teaches basic IFTT skills to young children. The problem is it’s still in a two dimensional digital universe.

What Krissa and Jacqueline, two Charleston women, have created adds a whole new dimension to teaching the basics of engineering. Their Sensibots claim to be “the coolest, new engineering training system” and these smart robots seem to do just that.

Check out the video below and you’ll see what these unique robots can do. They teach everything from design, engineering, 3d printing and then IFTT.

For instance, in a program designed by five year olds, the lightbot was told if it reaches 70 lumens to have the other Sensibots start singing. As soon as the lightbot reached 70 lumens it did just that. Similar programming lessons can be taught with other Sensibots, like the music bot. If the sound in the room gets to a certain level they can tell the other Sensibots to do something. Where most apps keep IFTT in that two dimensional world, children can learn how to really make something happen.

But rest assured Sensibots are designed for all ages. High school students can connect their Sensibot to a computer and hack away at the hardware and make the bots do hundreds of different things.

They have two main choices of Sensibot’s, “Engineers in Training” geared towards K-6th graders. These bots have an engineering design curriculum and also come with an Adventure book.

For the older students they have the Hacker edition which comes with the license to Bot Software for hacking.

Students and teachers can choose from stock Sensibots or have their bots 3D printed on a Makerbot 3D printer.

We kicked off the FETC by visiting with Sensibots, which may well be one of the best technology tools here at the Florida Educational Technology Conference.

For more FETC coverage click here. For more on Sensibots go to sensibots.com