Digital Making with micro:bit

24 hours

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24 hours
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Microcontrollers & IoT
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Could our school run Digital Making with micro:bit?

We ran this 24-hour course in 2025 for primary schools under IMDA's LEARN Roadmaps, delivered under our partner Zenitant Pte Ltd. Students programmed the micro:bit in block-based MakeCode and used it to control servos, LED strips, and buzzers, on PCs, Macs, iPads, or Chromebooks. This page describes that run. If you'd like a similar course for your school, write in; you'll need your own micro:bit kits. For our current IMDA LEARN Roadmaps 2027 courses, see the Apple, Figma, and Canva tracks.

Domains
Microcontrollers & IoT Creativity, Craft, and Making
Platforms
MakeCode Arcade BBC micro:bit

Course Overview

Digital Making with micro:bit is a 24-hour course that introduces primary school students to coding and electronics with the micro:bit, a pocket-sized programmable microcontroller. Students program it in MakeCode, a block-based language, and practise computational thinking by wiring up components that move (servos), light up (LED strips), and make noise (buzzers).

Lesson Outcomes

  • Program microcontrollers

  • Introduce coding, electronics, and hands-on digital making

  • Learn MakeCode

  • Reinforce design thinking, creativity, and maker principles

Details

Zenitant is a fellow Microsoft Global Training Partner, with whom we partnered to offer these courses to primary schools in 2025. Through our close collaboration, we have brought the annual 3d-tronics Micro-controller Challenge from 2018 to 2022. Please note that for the microcontroller course, schools needed to have their own micro:bit kits. Tinker Class is a distributor for micro:bit and accessories; please contact us at hello@tinkerclass.tech to place orders at a discounted education pricing. Training was provided under Zenitant Pte Ltd. — email us to find out more.

Course

Course Code

Hours

Details

Digital Making with micro:bit

P-MICROSOFT-MAKE-BASIC / P-MICROSOFT-MAKE-INTM

24 hours

Suitable for schools with PCs, Macs, iPads, and Chromebooks. micro:bit required.

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The programme taught me that anything is possible. To be able to learn, from scratch, how to code an entire app and publish it on the App Store ― it's an experience that I'd recommend to anyone who's interested in coding! The community also kept me coming back long after I graduated. Truly a great programme.

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My past year with the programme has been an incredible journey that I will cherish forever. I've always dreamt of sharing my work with the world, and thanks to the programme's supportive mentors, I turned that dream into reality by publishing my app on the App Store for everyone to use. Along the way, I made unforgettable memories and gained hands-on experience in app development.

Very useful workshop. Guidance and examples were very beginner friendly and easy for participants to follow and try during the workshop. Good to build confidence especially for absolute beginners.

Having the experience as ex-school teachers, Tinkercademy is able to utilise sound educational pedagogy… We continually receive good feedback from students… An Arduino teachers' workshop with Tinkercademy even inspired a couple of our Science teachers to design a term-long performance task.

Most of the time i didn't feel lost, it was thoroughly well explained. I also like the Kahoot quizzes at the end of each session.

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