LEGO Education SPIKE Prime

Get up to speed with SPIKE Prime. Prepare for a competition as a team. Quickly find an answer on how to do specific things with SPIKE Prime. Learn and teach at home or at school.

Introduction

LEGO Education SPIKE Prime is a LEGO robotics set released in 2020 following the great success of LEGO Mindstorms EV3 between 2013 and 2020. SPIKE Prime comes in two main sets - 45678 and Expansion Set. The sets include a brick, sensors, motors and many new and interesting LEGO parts. A big change from EV3 is that the set is much more colorful and the shape of the motors make them much easier to work with.

LEGO Education SPIKE Prime robot can be programmed with Scratch and with Python. Generally we recommend the use of Scratch as the Python programs are much more challenging to get working..

Below you could find resources to help you get up to speed with LEGO Education SPIKE Prime. These are also resources suitable to help rookie team members get up to speed with the team.

Compete

Two of the main competitions in which you could participate with LEGO Education SPIKE Prime are FIRST LEGO League and World Robot Olympiad. There are also many other regional competitions for Sumo and Line Following where SPIKE Prime robots could be used. If you have the set you could prepare on your own or join a team.

FIRST LEGO League competitions allow the use of almost all LEGO Parts, not just SPIKE Prime. This is important as you could purchase additional LEGO parts for a really low price from marketplaces like Bricklink and significantly increase the number of complex attachments and robots that you could use on the competition. If you have only a SPIKE Prime set we’ve prepared a couple of courses that use only the SPIKE Prime sets, but if you want to design and use complex LEGO robots & attachments that cover a variety of topics and demonstrate advanced concepts we advise you to explore all the attachments from all different LEGO sets including EV3, NXT, Technic, Robot Inventor as there are extremely good ideas that will help your team advance to the next competition rounds.

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Competition Guides

Learn how to use LEGO Education SPIKE Prime to prepare for competitions like FIRST LEGO League,World Robot Olympiad and others more

Find an answer in 5 minutes

Online courses require a lot of time and effort to join, participate, move through all the videos and lectures. We’ve learned that most people don’t have time for this and we’ve built many “How to Tutorials” on different topics that would help you find an answer in about 5 minutes. There are lessons on Line Following, moving in a straight line with the robot and building specific attachments for dropping, lifting, pushing, pulling.

Learn & Teach at Home

Have fun and learn at home with your child. By enrolling in the “Stay @ Home SPIKE Prime” course you can pick a new robot and program each week, build something new and have a lot of fun. Or you can just build a robot, without programming - we leave this up to you.

It is not very common to use LEGO Education SPIKE Prime for home as it is part of the educational series of LEGO and is distributed only to teachers. There is a similar set called LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor that is distributed in the retail network and is more commonly used for end clients.

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Stay @ Home SPIKE Prime Course

An introduction to the SPIKE Prime set! In this course you will have access to 7 3D instructions for SPIKE Prime robots, exploring the...

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Building Instructions

Have fun and learn at home with your child. By enrolling in the “Stay @ Home SPIKE Prime” course you can pick a new robot and program each week, build something new and have a lot of fun. Or you can just build a robot, without programming - we leave this up to you.

It is not very common to use LEGO Education SPIKE Prime for home as it is part of the educational series of LEGO and is distributed only to teachers. There is a similar set called LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor that is distributed in the retail network and is more commonly used for end clients.

SPIKE Prime Building Instructions

Lessons

LEGO Education SPIKE Prime could be used outside of Competitions and could be used for LEGO Summer Camps and After class activities. The goal with these classes is different from a competition as they generally are conducted over a longer period of time and don’t focus on accomplishing a mission and winning points, but on understanding robotics, math and science concepts by presenting them from many different angles.

SPIKE Prime Lessons

Where to buy the sets

To use the subscription and build the constructions and robots you must have a LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Set 45678 + LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Expansion Set 45681. The sets are distributed by LEGO Education and its partners.

Check LEGO Education distributors *This will direct you outside of the site.

Testimonials

FLLCasts has great content! Our team is composed of 4th-5th grade students and we found the information you provided on topics like Box robots *extremely* helpful. Also, the tips on how to follow a line and other types of intelligent robot control are invaluable. There is no resource like FLL Casts out there for a new team of young kids who are eager and excited to learn the EV3. Neither Lego nor First Lego League provides *any* step-by-step instruction from both a mechanical and programming point of view - which seems like a huge miss.

Dave Covino

February 2021
I want to thank you for your programs, they were so valuable in having a FLL team move forward.

Jerome Seppelt

January 2021
First of all, you have produced a page with very nice content. Thank you very much. Since I participated in the FLL contest, I was using your web page in robot design and basically to learn the codes. I chose not to participate in the competition this year. I am thinking of rejoining your platform when I decide to join the competition again.

Sertan GÖNÜLTAŞ

November 2020

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About FLLCasts

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