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\section{The ISOLDE Robot project}  Details The project as originally proposed was to address misconceptions about nuclear physics among 14-16-year-olds by inviting local schools to participate in a competition to design and build a Lego Mindstorms robot. It was planned that a trained student ambassador would visit each school to give an introductory class workshop on nuclear research and the use of robots to handle nuclear material at ISOLDE, and that the schools would then be loaned a Mindstorms Education kit. The kits consist of 585 Lego elements, a programmable “brick”, and a number of motors, wheels and sensors (which respond to colour, orientation or distance from an obstacle). The sensors and other elements can be connected to the brick in many different combinations, and the brick can then be programmed from the Mindstorm app, which uses blocks  of code in a similar way to  the outreach programme we proposed\\ programming language Scratch.\\  Implementation and execution of the programme\\  \emph{Possible figure: picture of Clarence; picture of students next to the MEDICIS Kuka robot; picture of Kara showing off Clarence; picture of a workshop with kids and an ambassador}\\  \textbf{Emma} \textbf{working on this - 16th Jan 2017}