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Health robot

Young entrepreneurship

Let the class test their role as future innovators!

In this curriculum, students work together as a start-up company and develop their own healthcare robots to find creative solutions to staffing challenges in the healthcare sector. They go from idea development and design sketches to building a prototype, before concluding with a sales pitch to investors.

The program trains collaboration, creative problem-solving and technological understanding, and is perfect for interdisciplinary work at the junior high school level. A practical and engaging experience that gives students both mastery and creative joy.

NB! Show up no later than 10 minutes before the lesson. Failure to attend without cancellation 7 days in advance will result in a NOK 500 fee.


Suitable for ages 8-10. steps

Maximum 28 students


Entrepreneurship/Arts and Crafts

Duration 105 min

What happens in this teaching program?

Curriculum and competence targets
Arts and crafts (core elements and competency goals after 10th grade):
  • Explore possibilities within craft techniques and appropriate technology by processing and joining hard, plastic and soft materials.
  • Assess the durability of materials and possibilities for repair and reuse, and use various tools and materials in an appropriate and environmentally conscious manner.
  • Visualize form using freehand drawings, working drawings, models, and digital tools
  • Immerse yourself in a visual form of expression and/or a craft technique, explore possibilities through practical creative work and present choices from idea to finished result
Entrepreneurship and business development 1 (core elements and competence objectives after 10th grade):
  • Explore different creativity processes and develop business ideas
  • Explore and use different innovation processes when establishing businesses
  • Exploring and using different competitive tools in a startup phase

Description of the lesson
Introduction (approx. 10 min)
  • The class is picked up and we go to the classroom.
  • Division into groups.
Activity (approx. 70 min)
  • Discussion of the link between users and functions of robots.
  • Activity to get acquainted with tools and spatial constructions.
  • Design process where they outline the health robot based on user choice, shapes and functionality.
  • Construction of robot.
Conclusion (approx. 30 min)
  • Cleaning and preparation for sales presentation
  • Each group presents its prototype.
  • Dismantling of the health robots and final cleanup.
    Practical information

    The teacher's role

    We want you as an adult to be active, participating and curious. Teachers are responsible for the group throughout the visit and may be asked to help along the way. Explainer is responsible for implementing the program. 

    Before the visit

    Our teaching plans do not require preparatory work, but it is always useful to prepare students for a museum visit. Feel free to show pictures or video from the museum, tell us about what will happen, and see our digital resources that can be used for pre- and post-work.

    After the visit

    Reflect and discuss with the students after the lesson, preferably in groups.


    Norway's National Museum of Technology, Industry, Science and Medicine. Here you will find exciting exhibitions and activities a short distance from central Oslo.

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