SteamBot is a fun, student-friendly education platform for teaching software programming (coding) skills. SteamBot is designed especially for young learners and includes hardware, software, and curriculum. The SteamBot hardware includes the CupDrone and the CupDrone SensorShield. With SteamBot hardware students can work together on projects rather than just looking at a computer screen. The SteamBot Scratch software has a simple, graphical interface so beginners are not intimidated to learn. The SteamBot platform also includes a curriculum, for elementary and middle school grade levels.