Three days. Twenty-seven students. Seven teams. Countless circuits wired, debugged, and brought to life.
CESAR recently partnered with the Gandaki Innovation Center — the student-led innovation hub at Gandaki Boarding School, Pokhara — to deliver a comprehensive, hands-on robotics and electronics workshop. The result was three days of the kind of focused, hands-dirty learning that no textbook can replicate.
From First Circuit to Working Robot
The workshop was built around a simple idea: students learn robotics best by building robotics, not by reading about it.
Over the three days, students moved through a carefully staged progression:
- Day 1 introduced the fundamentals: circuits, voltage, and basic programming, as students wired their first LEDs and wrote their first lines of code.
- Day 2 stepped up to sensors and motors, as teams wired ultrasonic sensors, servo motors, and motor drivers, and began assembling their robot chassis.
- Day 3 brought it all together, as each of the 7 teams built out a working project and prepared to present it.
Working in small teams of about four, students didn't just follow instructions, they debugged their own circuits, argued over design choices, and celebrated when their robots finally moved, sensed, and responded exactly as intended.
The Energy in the Room
Ask any facilitator what stood out most, and the answer is unanimous: the sheer excitement and involvement of the students. From the first LED blink to the final working prototype, engagement never dipped. Students stayed curious, asked sharp questions, and pushed their teams to go further than the minimum requirement — exactly the kind of self-driven learning CESAR hopes to spark in every session.
The workshop was facilitated by CESAR's Dinesh Mani Bhandari and Prasamsha Tripathi, who worked closely with each team throughout the three days.
Thank You
Programs like this don't happen without strong partners on the ground. CESAR extends its sincere thanks to Raj Kumar Dhakal, Keshab Lamichhane, Nabaraj Adhikari, and Ravi Sunar for their overall coordination and for making this opportunity possible for the students of Gandaki Boarding School.
What's Next: CESAR Robotics Academy
The response to this workshop confirmed something CESAR has believed for a while: Pokhara's students are hungry for more hands-on technology education than a single workshop can offer.
That's why CESAR is now opening its Robotics Academy — a weekend robotics and electronics training program for students ages 7 to 16, running every Saturday and Sunday at CESAR's Pokhara lab. It's the same hands-on, project-based approach that made this workshop a success, now available as an ongoing program.