A: Refunds requested two weeks before the start date – registration fees will be refundable minus a $50 administration fee.

Refunds requested within 2 weeks of the start date – 50% of the registration fee will be refunded.

Refunds requested less than one week before the start date- No refunds will be granted. However, we will be more than happy to provide a 50% credit that must be used in the next season of programs or it will be forfeited.

Once a class has begun, there are no refunds, and no credits. 

A: For our weekly learning program we do require a commitment to each lesson as we are building the concepts of programming each week. If your child misses a class, they will miss something they will need for the next, that is your responsibility to their learning.

We do not do make-up classes nor do we record classes online, as we are here each week to provide the weekly lessons.  We provide a recap at the beginning of each class of the previous lesson.

For summer camps it will be very important for your student to attend each day. Every morning there will be a review from the day before so a missing student will have an opportunity to learn what they missed and will be able to practice it through the day as there is more time. However please be aware if your student gets covid or has to isolate that they will miss the week and we cannot be responsible for that situation. Parents will have to be diligent to keep their students safe before a week at camp, so there are no effects to their attendance. 

A: This is not an option during our summer camps. However in our fall, winter, spring sessions if the first class is missed, there is still an opportunity to catch up in the 2nd class only. After that the classes run as is. 

A: We are currently operating with no building of robots in the first class as we did before covid. Robots have been built by us to reduce the number of hands that are in the lego bin.  Robots are sterilized between classes.

At E-Bots, understanding how to move a robot and command it is our first commitment. There may be programs we offer later where children will get instruction and support for lego robot building. Traditional “static” lego building is very different to building a robot on the move!

A: Not all robotics programs are the same! We will only do assessments on students who in the past have actually learned and worked with the LEGO Mindstorms programming platform and have robotic environment programming.

Unfortunately, LEGO has changed their programming platform over the last two pandemic years from EV3-G language to Scratch and Python. So if they only know EV3-G it is not applicable now, but if they have been students who have aken previous classes with us in EV3-G, you will need to contact the office to see which of our new levels they will need to rejoin with. 

If your child has NO experience with LEGO Robotics they will start in Robot 1. 

A: YES, we usually have 4 teams operating from E-Bots each year, The FLL season begins in the Fall each year.  

Conversations and invitations with our current students will begin in the spring and summer as we see children who we feel would benefit from this program.  

Experience teams, which are operated like a class in the fall with attendance at competition, is open to students who have completed successfully, robot 3.  They can register for this learning opportunity in the summer when Fall registration begins. 

To be considered for a competitive team, a student has to have been on an experience team first, acquired up to python 2 and build 2 classes.  We are far more concerned about them having shown a passionate interest and being team players, winning is not our goal, the journey is the “win”. 

For more information please visit here. 

A: Please contact us at info@ebots.ca

A: We appreciate that a lot of children already have Scratch programming experience.

Children who have worked with scratch at school or in another program, where they were programming movies, or games do not have the scratch required to start in our higher-level scratch classes.

We are teaching a scratch that is robot specific and they will NOT have this knowledge. They will be required to start in our scratch 1 class, where, at the beginning some things may be repetitive, but very quickly they will be learning new code to manipulate the robot which they will not have done before.

If your child has EV3 Mindstorms experience or Spike Prime experience please email info@ebots.ca

FOR SEASONAL classes:

A what’s app group is made for the WeeBots classes so the parents will receive videos and pictures of their children during their class so they can see them in the facility and what they are doing each week.

Parents are invited into the E-Bots classes at the end of week 5 and the last class to see their students classroom and get an update on progress. 

E-Bots Robot 1 parents are welcome to come in the first day when dropping off their student to see the facility and then follow the week 5 and last day procedure.