TechTalk May 19

Prior to joining Actura Australia, Nerilee worked in the Magazine Publishing industry and Book Publishing industry and more recently in the capacity as a Marketing and Communications Coordinator within various industries and sectors. She has many years of experience in a variety of fields and roles. Her key skills as a Communications Specialist cover the spectrum of corporate writing, communications, website management, public relations, marketing, digital marketing and design.

Nerilee has recently joined Actura’s growing Marketing Department and will focus on Public Relations, Marketing, Communication, Writing Media and Press Releases and website management & design.

Nerilee has a growing interest in the STEAM field, with the desire to contribute towards the industry and the empowerment of educating our youth to be the inspiring leaders of tomorrow. Nerilee is highly excited to join the Sydney-based head office of Actura in Gordon, on the North Shore.

At the beginning of this year, Actura wanted to provide a means by which teachers could get a hands-on experience with FlipRobot but in a format that could fit into their busy schedules. From this, Actura developed our FlipRobot 2-Hour Initial Workshop. This workshop was developed to provide teachers with not only practical applications for FlipRobot, but also ideas on how FlipRobot can be used in their classroom.

The most recent of these workshops was performed at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland. At this workshop we brought together over twenty teachers from ten of the most prestigious private schools across Auckland. Throughout the workshop, the teachers were invited to participate in activities pulled straight from the CASE Robotic Curriculum to allow teachers to understand how their students could learn the critical STEAM-related skills incorporated with Robotic Learning. The result of the workshop was every school in attendance wanted at least a follow-up presentation at this school and some even wanting quotes for our FlipRobot products, right there and then.

These FlipRobot workshops are a very powerful tool available to our customers to promote the FlipRobot solution to our school customer-base. These can be run by our FlipRobot Account Executive or, training packages can be offered to train customers to run these workshops.

Should you want any information on these training packages or workshop offers please contact your FlipRobot Account Executive

Backed by strong demands from schools, Actura has now introduced the new exciting FlipDuino App for Windows OS and macOS. With the new FlipDuino app, students can learn how to create Arduino script program to command their FlipRobot. Students can use it on macOS (High Sierra 10.9.5 and above), or Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.

As shown below, the user interface of FlipDuino is very intuitive. Students can either copy and paste their Arduino code from FlipCode into FlipDuino then edit it further, or create one in FlipDuino from scratch. Once the program is completed, students can easily upload the program from FlipDuino into FlipRobot directly.