After the brief charging and updating period, we downloaded a few of Wonder Workshop’s fun–and entirely free–Dash and Dot apps. We typed in Robie’s new name, chose his color wheel preference (purple, ...

Dash and Dot’s other apps — Blocky, Go, Path, and Xylo — all have value, but Wonder feels kind of special. It’s an intuitive and kid-friendly way of presenting coding and robotics.

To compete, teams download a challenge document and must use Dash, Dot and the Wonder app to program solutions to the problems therein. To submit to the competition, clubs film their robots completing ...

Wonder Workshop ’s Dash robot is now programmable with Apple ’s Swift coding language thanks to new lessons available in the latest version of the Swift Playgrounds app for iPad, which launched ...