Wanted for School

Hello all,

I doubt many of you will remember me but I was a member during the earlier years of various forums (around 2004) as Phoenix I only competed a handful of times. It's so great too see this site is still thriving and the technology improvement is unbelievable.

Reason I logged back in is, I am all grown up now and became a computing teacher. I'm desperate to get these kids into robots and electronics as they seem to enjoy it. Lucky I'm writing a paper on computational thinking and have the opportunity to get 5 kids making them. Unfortunately I have to soak up the costs for this.

Can any point me in the direction of cheap and parts quality doesn't matter, I want these kids to learn and explore but with school budgets so low this is impossible. I have over 200 kids a week with a budget of just under a grand a term, crazy right. So it's out of my own pocket so price is a premium.

The main thing i'm looking for are old radio kits and servos as these are the prices item for me, old 27mhz stuff doesn't hold its value but at 10 quid a transmitter thats 50 out of pocket straight away. I'm going to get them to build some ant like robots (ofc weight limit will be changed)

Can anyone help?


BTW: if you have seen this before it's copied off robot wars 101 where i also posted for help
2nd BTW do stu and marco still compete ?