Robotics classes, camps and competition teams from Kindergarten to Grade 12, and the curriculum, hardware, software and labs that schools need to run their own.
Two minutes of questions, one clear recommendation. Bringing robotics to a school?
A fifteen-second film with music. A red dot drops, bounces and lands as the full stop of “A spark.” It races across a circuit board, lighting it up: “A circuit.” A small robot builds itself around the dot, wakes up and waves: “A machine.” The camera dives into its eye, where a neural network fires and melts into liquid: “A mind.” “Built by” appears while a reel spins through curious kids, builders, inventors, coders, teammates, dreamers, engineers and leaders, and lands on “you.” Current climbs into the Maple Mind Academy leaf and lights it: “Build what’s next.”
Signature sequence
A shape becomes a wheel. A wheel becomes a drivetrain. A drivetrain becomes a machine a learner can command.
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A twenty-second film with music, told in words. “It starts with a question.” A question mark is drawn by hand, and its dot, a red diamond, beats like a heart. “What if I built one?” The question curls into a wheel, a pen sketches a little robot around it, and the sketch turns in space and becomes solid. “The first try fails”: it lurches forward and falls on its face. “So does the second”: it spins in circles. “Then someone shows you why”: a blue diamond arrives, the robot opens up, and the blue traces how it all connects and brings the missing piece. “So you try again”, and it closes up, whole. “And then…” The lights go down. “It moves.” The lights come up, it drives, and everything celebrates. “That feeling stays with you”: its track becomes a heartbeat. “You stop asking ‘Can I?’ and start asking ‘What’s next?’”, the words melting from one into the other. The red diamond and the blue one come together as the Maple Mind mark: “Build What’s Next.”
Two minutes of questions produces a real recommendation: the right program, hub, software or full school solution, with a clear next step.
Software, simulation, online cohorts, physical hubs and hardware: different doors into the same system.
Our students, entered as Maple Mind Academy x ventureLAB, won the SuperTeam Award in Rescue Maze (Secondary) with teammates from Brazil and the United States, and took Best Hardware Solution for the robot they built.
At RoboCupJunior, teams from different countries are put together into one SuperTeam and have to get their robots working together on the same challenge. Ours won Rescue Maze, together with Defenders from Brazil and PiRates from the United States.
An award for the robot itself: how well it is designed, built and wired.
The competition team trains for RoboCupJunior all season. It’s selective, for ages 12 to 18.
Four very different reasons to be on this page. Pick the one that sounds like you.
Not a marketing loop. The same sequence learners repeat every week until the robot does what they intended.
The robot from last week is still on the bench. So is the bug you were chasing.
Nothing gets reset between sessionsA short problem statement (a distance, a time, a sensor rule) before anyone touches a tool.
Constraint first, parts secondFrames, gears, printed parts. The mechanical problem gets solved in metal and plastic, not on a slide.
Frames · gears · printed partsMotor drivers, grounds, signal lines. First smoke test of the session, and the first place a mistake is visible.
Power · signal · groundCode goes in and the robot moves. Reading why it did that, rather than guessing, is the actual lesson.
Read the sensor, not the vibeA peer, a parent, an instructor. If it works in front of someone else, it works.
A program is what the learner sees. The rest of this is what makes it repeatable.
Level-based outcomes rather than activity lists. Every stage has something a learner must be able to design, wire, program or debug before moving on.
Guided builds at every level
Delivery, tracking, simulation and AI support: the operating layer beneath the hardware, and the reason a program can be handed to somebody else and still run.
Kits, controllers, sensors and spares specified for classroom wear. Hardware breaks. That is why spares are part of the program.
Benches, storage, tooling and safety designed around the levels you teach.
STEM providers and academies can run the full stack under their own identity.
Custom brackets, spacers and adapters. Learners own the geometry, not just the kit parts.
Every session runs the loop engineers run. Season after season, the same loop takes a learner from a first build to a robot on a competition field.
Try it
Drag each part onto the blueprint, or tap it. Then power it on. Move your cursor over the board behind it and you are the battery.
Blueprint · rover v1
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Five stages from first build to competition-ready. Each maps to a program you can start this term.
Hands-on workshops, open houses and family builds, at our North York lab and wherever learners are: benches, tools, printers and robots that do not work yet.
Open to everyone, and free with a Maple Mind Passport unless ticketed.
Workshops are open to everyone, and free with a Maple Mind Passport unless they are ticketed.
The same program. Different operator. Curriculum, software, hardware, labs, training and support stay ours underneath. What changes is how much of the room is yours.
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Your staff: Minimal: your team hosts, we run the program.
RoboCupJunior 2026 in Canada, competition days, open houses and late-session breakthroughs: a sample from the library.
Engineers, educators, builders, robotics competitors, mentors and judges: people who have been on both sides of the competition table.
Pooya Rad
Co-Founder & CEO
Aref Nasiri
Co-Founder & CTO
Robotics systems, curriculum architecture and the technology layer that connects learning to real hardware.
Competition robotics, program delivery and mentoring builders from first robot to competition floor.
Engineers, educators, competitors and mentors: the people behind the curriculum, the hardware and the software.
The things people ask before they book.
New workshops, camps, competition results and school programs, a few times a term. Pick what you care about and we'll send only that.
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