By following a video, expertise doesn't automatic transfer over to the student copying the robot, for repairs and troubleshooting.

For most beginners, your best robot is merely a forgery of other people's logic and design.

The world's top LEGO Battle Bots designers and competitors teach in our academy. Our main focus is not your robot, but your thinking that creates your robot. Because you can always repair a robot that you personally designed.

This is the first time we are teaching it publicly, so our academy is the only place to find mentors trained to work with kids.

Battle bot designs requires true understanding in geometry, physics, and math. Our classes is neuroscientist-led, and we use kinesthetic and fun ways to prove the science and physics of battle bots to each student, because our body is the most important learning tool.

The building techniques for building battle robots are more advanced than LEGO sets, due to the 3-D bracing requirement in professional battles. Combat robots are actually a study in product longevity and sustainability. This is what our world desperately need: Less waste!

We train once each student to both understand the science and THEN custom-apply physics and design principles INTO their own robots.

In battles, robots break where weaknesses converge. And the way robots break never matches the order it is put together. So it is up to each competitor to repair their robots based on the logic required for its distinctive design. And if that logic came from you, you are the best expert in the world to fix your own robot.

LEGO Battle bots requires independent thinking (since it breaks and you will need to repair it), and it is hard to learn that when you are relying on other people's thoughts, step by step.

(And go read #3 again!)