Inside a centre
Inside a
Robocode centre
PLAI Labs is our trademarked centre design, and a Studio Lab is one teaching room inside it. Every centre is built to the same standard, down to the paint colours and the position of the display screens. These photographs are of real Robocode centres, not renders.
Room by room
What each space is for
Robotics Studio Lab
Ten workstations, a touchscreen board, component trolleys and wall-mounted power. Ten Robocoders per class, two hours a session, eighteen sessions a week. This is the room that decides your capacity, which is why the tiers are counted in teaching rooms.
Game Dev Studio
Ten desktop machines with proper monitors, mice and headsets, because a child who has been promised game development notices immediately if the kit is cheap. Two themes are specified: the Minecraft room for younger Robocoders, and the professional room with hexagon acoustic panels for the older ones.
The social space
A graffiti wall, arcade machines, a pool table and somewhere to sit. It does not teach anything, and it is not optional. It is why a child asks to arrive early and why a sibling waiting for a lesson is not miserable. It is also the first thing a parent photographs.
The feature wall
Accreditations, competition trophies, and the robots Robocoders have built, in cases, at eye height for a nine year old. Parents read this wall while they wait. It is where the accreditation stops being a logo on a website and becomes a framed certificate.
The exam safe room
A secure door, wire mesh and a safe, built to the JCQ requirement for storing examination papers. Unglamorous, and the thing that lets you call yourself a registered exam centre. Included in the Full tier.
What the fit-out does not include
Once you have enquired we will give you access to the Build Configurator, which prices a centre room by room and item by item, from the paint to the 3D printers, and shows you exactly what changes when you add a lab.