Introductory
Basic Robotics
Mechanisms, simple sensors, and the habit of testing an idea. A first course for children who are new to building.
- Ages
- Ages 6–8
- Format
- Weekly class
Muru RoboKids
Big ideas begin with curious minds.
Hands-on robotics, coding and engineering for children and teens. Explore guided projects in Voi, through holiday camps and online across Kenya and Malawi. Adults can build and learn with Robo Studio.
- Where we teach
- Kenya & Malawi
- How classes run
- In person & online
- Press coverage
- KTN, Citizen, Kenya News
Donation
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Find your starting point
A programme that fits your learner.
Choose an age and tell us how you would like to learn. Explore a starting point, then speak with admissions about placement.
What parents can expectEnter the learner’s age to see an age-based starting point. Fees, dates and available places are confirmed by admissions.
Compare all learning pathwaysRobotics course groups
A starting group for robotics learners.
These robotics groups provide age-based starting points within the wider programme portfolio. Placement depends on experience, and admissions confirms the right group.
Intermediate
Coding Adventures
Students write programs that move a robot, then change the code when the result is not what they expected.
- Ages
- Ages 9–11
- Format
- Weekly class
Advanced
Robo Explorers
Longer builds that combine design, electronics, and programming. Students plan a project and present the result.
- Ages
- Ages 12–16
- Format
- Weekly class
Studio
Robo Studio
A project you chose, on a classroom kit. You build it, test it, and explain the change. For adults and older students.
- Ages
- Ages 18 and up
- Format
- Voi, Malawi or virtual
About
A classroom built around making things work.
Muru RoboKids is the education arm of Muru Tech. We teach children in Kenya and Malawi how robots are designed, built, and programmed, with instructors in the room to help when a project stalls.
Projects, not lectures
Students assemble kits, write simple programs, and test what they built. Each class ends with something they can show and explain.
STEM that connects
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are taught together, so a circuit, a measurement, and a line of code belong to the same project.
Robotics, at the right pace
Younger students start with mechanisms and sensors. Older students move into programming, design choices, and longer builds.
Why families choose us
Teaching that stays with the student.
Parents come to Muru RoboKids for a class their child will finish, understand, and want to continue. The work is practical, the groups are guided, and the next course is already mapped.
Small enough to notice each student
Instructors adjust the task when a child is stuck or ready for the next step.
Work they can take home
Projects are built to be finished, demonstrated, and talked about with family.
A path across ages
Courses run from early primary through secondary, so students can continue rather than start over.
Instructors who build as well as teach
Faculty work in robotics, electronics, and software, and they teach from that practice.
Subjects
Six areas, taught on a robot.
The list matches what the classes already cover, and what comparable STEM centers publish when they are being specific: robotics, coding, electronics, a first look at artificial intelligence, engineering design, and applied problems.
Robotics
Build a machine, make it move, and explain why it did.
- A guided build
- Motors and sensors
- A test the group can see
Coding
Instructions a robot can follow, then instructions a student can debug.
- Step order
- Loops and choices
- One mistake traced
Electronics
Circuits, sensors, and the machines children already live with.
- A closed circuit
- Sensors as inputs
- Motors, lights, and buzzers
Artificial intelligence
What a machine can decide, and what it cannot.
- A rule the student wrote
- A small set of examples
- A wrong label they can fix
Engineering design
A problem small enough to test, and a record of what changed.
- Name the task
- Build the smallest version
- Change one thing
Applied STEM
Farming, health, and moving goods, at a size a child can test.
- A farm-machine model
- A health reminder or counter
- A tabletop delivery task
Explore your possibilities
A pathway for every kind of curious mind.
Discover how coding, robotics, AI and engineering can connect—from a first invention to an independent project.
Discover · Ages 5–7
Little Inventors
Playful engineering for small hands and big questions: patterns, movement and making things work.
Proposed pathway · Express interest
Explore pathwayCreate · Ages 8–12
Creative Coding & Game Design
Turn an original story into an animation or game while learning the logic behind every interaction.
Proposed pathway · Express interest
Explore pathwayBuild · Ages 6–16 · grouped by level
Robotics & Physical Computing
Connect code with the real world through mechanisms, sensors and machines that respond to their surroundings.
Ask about current availability
Explore pathwayInvestigate · Ages 13–17
AI & Data Lab
Explore how AI learns from examples, why data quality matters and where human judgement belongs.
Proposed pathway · Express interest
Explore pathwayInnovate · Ages 12–17
Maker Engineering & Smart Systems
Bring design, electronics and code together to prototype a useful response to a local problem.
Proposed pathway · Express interest
Explore pathwayApply · Ages 18+
Robo Studio · Adults
Develop practical confidence through a project you help choose, build, test and explain.
Ask about current availability
Explore pathwayNew pathways are proposed additions. Admissions confirms launch plans, placement, equipment, dates and fees.
Beyond the classroom
A home for every step of the learning journey.
Create a family or adult learner account, enrol in an online course and stay connected to your tutor through the Muru Learning Hub.
Checking your learning account…
Learn at your pace
Protected course materials and progress tracking.
Meet your tutor
Live session schedules and course meeting links.
Keep everything together
Learner profiles, course fees and access in one dashboard.
Learning in action
Build it. Test it. Explain it.
Explore the places we teach and the practical thinking learners develop through robotics.
Photo: Imago Dei Creations
Learning with schools
Schools can host a robotics cohort or club, with kits and a Muru instructor. Learners build, test and demonstrate their work.
School programmes
STEM in the community
Guided projects give a group something to explore together. Find out how a local host can bring a STEM session to their community.
Community sessionsKeep exploring at home
Turn curiosity into the next small project.
Explore trusted coding and STEM resources, plus simple activity ideas to discuss with your learner.
Inside the learning experience
Curiosity looks like this.
Small discoveries, shared challenges and practical projects. Take a closer look at our learners and instructors in action.
Faculty
The people in the room.
Classes are taught by practitioners. Students work with the same instructors across a term, so questions carry from one session to the next.
Christian Muru
AI and robotics
Teaches artificial intelligence and robotics, and leads the technical direction of the programme.
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Robotics
Evans Mogeni
Robotics
Runs practical builds: mechanisms, wiring, and the debugging that happens when a robot does not move.
- Robot design
- Programming
- Electronics
Francis Monaja
Robotics
Works with younger students on project-based lessons that keep the first builds approachable.
- STEM education
- Project-based learning
- Robotics
Press
Reported elsewhere.
Independent coverage of the classes in Voi, from national news and regional broadcasters.
Kenya News Agency
Empowering young minds through robotics training in Voi
A report on hands-on robotics sessions with students in Voi.
Read the storyCitizen TV
Citizen TV on the robotics initiative
A short segment from a recent program, shared by Citizen TV Kenya.
Read the story
Tsavo Media Network
Robotics training for young innovators
Classroom footage of students building and testing robots.
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KTN
STEM classes, as covered by KTN
A television report on the robotics and STEM programme.
Read the storyHow classes work
A clear week, and a clear next step.
Students attend on a set schedule, in Voi or online. Between classes they can return to the project materials. When a term ends, admissions can place them in the course that follows.
A session has a finished step
Each class ends with a working piece of the project, not a slide deck.
Materials stay available
Families can revisit briefs and recordings between meetings.
Fees are discussed up front
Admissions confirms the course, the schedule, and the cost before a student starts.
The sequence is deliberate
Later courses assume the earlier ones, so students are not repeating the same introduction.
Families
What parents tell us.
Notes from families whose children have attended a Muru RoboKids course.
“The robotics class gave my daughter a project she wanted to finish. She talks through the problem now, not only the answer, and that has shown up in the rest of her schoolwork.”
Dinnah Nkatha
Parent of a 9-year-old
“Miles comes home describing the robot he worked on and what he would change next time. The instructors explain each step, and he asks to stay for the following course.”
Christine Mutiso
Parent of a 10-year-old
“The schedule worked around school, and the projects were concrete enough that my son could show us what he had done. His confidence in presenting the work has grown with each term.”
Mwakio Mwagandi
Parent of a 15-year-old
Questions
Before you write.
A short set of answers for families, schools, and anyone asking how a class is arranged.
Who are the classes for?+–
Children aged 6–16, placed in age groups, and Robo Studio for ages 18 and up. Families come to the Voi class, a school hosts a cohort, a family in Kenya or Malawi joins online, a community asks for a short course, or an adult enrolls in Robo Studio. Admissions confirms the fit from the age and what the person has already built.
How does a class help a child learn?+–
Each session is a build, a test, and an explanation. The child keeps one project long enough to see it fail and to change one thing. By the end they can show the robot doing the task and say what they changed.
Can a school’s own teacher continue the class?+–
Yes. A host teacher can sit in the sessions and keep the same sequence after the visit. That is support for the club the school already wants. It is not a separate teacher-certificate course.
How can a school or a company take part?+–
Write with the school or community, the ages, and what you hope the students finish. Admissions will say whether that matches a class already taught, and how a gift for kits or places would be arranged. The support form saves your enquiry for the team to review. It does not collect a donation payment; online course fees are handled separately through the Learning Hub.
Contact
Ask about a place in class.
Write or call with the student’s age and the format you prefer. For a new enrollment, the form is the fastest way to reach admissions.
Kenya
- Mb'yuni, Maghonyi Gym Street, Along Voi Town–Mombasa Road Through River Voi
- stem@murutechinc.com
- +254 716 748 685
Malawi
- BlueGam Avenue Road, Suma House, Suite 103
- malawi@murutechinc.com
- +265 885 481 824