An engineer
at your home.
One learner, one specialist, one hour a week — with a crate of real components on the floor beside them. This is the most intensive route in the STEM division, and the one that moves fastest.
- Ages
- 6 – 18
- Session
- 60 or 90 min
- Ratio
- Strictly 1:1
- Coverage
- 240+ towns
Four stages, then it repeats.
Nothing about this is improvised. Every educator works from the same progression map, so a change of tutor never means a change of direction.
- 01
Diagnostic visit
A ninety-minute first session, charged at half rate, in which the educator works out what your child can actually do rather than what a report card says.
- 02
Kit delivered
A crate arrives: microcontrollers, motors, sensors, hand tools and consumables. It stays with you for the length of the programme and is fully insured.
- 03
Weekly build
Same educator, same slot. Each session opens with last week's blockers and closes with something demonstrably more capable than it was an hour ago.
- 04
Termly demonstration
Your child presents the build to a small panel — usually two KOA engineers and, if they'll come, a grandparent. Questions are real.
What arrives in the crate.
Contents vary by programme family and level. Everything is insured, replaced free if a component dies honestly, and the final build is yours to keep at the end of the programme.
- Compute
- Raspberry Pi 5 or ESP32-S3 depending on programme, pre-flashed and labelled
- Actuation
- Geared DC motors, servos, motor driver board, spare gearsets
- Sensing
- IMU, ultrasonic and IR range, line array, current sense, temperature
- Prototyping
- Breadboards, jumper looms, protoboard, header strip, hookup wire
- Tools
- Temperature-controlled iron, helping hands, side cutters, digital multimeter
- Structure
- Aluminium extrusion, laser-cut acrylic plates, fasteners, bearing set
- Safety
- Eye protection, fume mat, fused supply, written risk sheet per session
- Documentation
- Bound lab notebook, datasheet pack, and a printed schematic for every build
Six weeks in, the tutor told us she thought our daughter should skip a level. She was right. Nobody has ever suggested our child was ahead of anything before.
Ade & Yemisi Balogun
Parents · Robotics ST-101, East Legon