2024 graduate Brody Riopelle, with the guidance of UM Robotics faculty member and PCAS faculty affiliate Chad Jenkins, created a streamlined robotics curriculum for younger students without previous programming experience. Using MBots, initially designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in robotics, Riopelle's curriculum maintained interactivity with high-level concepts in Scratch without the learning curve presented by traditional scripting languages. 

Read more: Newnan, Dan. 2024. Robotics for Kids: College robots, tweaked with Scratch, inspire younger students.  The University Record. pgs 1, 10.