Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2026 Newsletter
races, on tracks of special shapes that the teams themselves designed, proposed and built.
When a whiteboard becomes a space of trust Collaboration between the partner schools went far beyond simple communication. Teachers agreed on ideas and decisions through regular exchanges, emails and several video-conference meetings, while students built their collaboration around the Miro Board tool. This tool proved to be an excellent solution, as it offered transparency while also giving each team a space to keep their ideas secret from the others – until the moment came to reveal them. Each teacher ran one Miro board and, at the same time, had access to the others. Once all the teams had finished designing, developing and building their robots, the boards were opened up and embedded into TwinSpace, so that the whole process of planning, designing and creating became visible to everyone. during a joint video class in the Meetingwords tool, they defined the rules of communication and conduct for the project. International teams were formed using a random team generator tool, and together they went on to design and build both the robots and the race tracks, working out precise specifications for the components – motors, relays, wheels – that needed to be purchased.
From idea to the first race The road from concept to a finished robot was a genuine little engineering adventure. Students first explored the possibilities of the Arduino device, finding and sharing resources on how to program it, then proposed robot designs and the components they would need. After the parts were purchased came the assembly stage, followed by building the tracks, and finally programming each robot to perform as well as possible on every track. It all culminated in a robot demonstration and a friendly robot race that became a genuine celebration of everyone ' s shared work.
Students also exchanged programming code on the forum, encouraging peer learning. Together, right at the start,
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