The purchase of the exam grants one attempt to take the Arduino certification exam.
The Junior Certification is an online, multiple-choice exam that makes it easy for educators to assess your students' individual aptitude, skills, and what they've learned about programming, electronics, robotics, and Arduino concepts.
Junior Certification gives you a clear insight into each student's own level, and enables you to spot knowledge gaps and areas for improvement.
It also helps students with self evaluation, giving them an understanding of the areas they need to work on or have a particular aptitude for.
The exam is based on topics covered by the Arduino Student Kit and the Education Starter Kit (you only need to use one of these kits, not both).
Topics covered include electricity, circuits and schematics, Arduino IDE and boards, electronic components, and programming.
The more students have used the kit, the better their chances of gaining Junior Certification.
However, purchasing the Arduino Student Kit is not mandatory to successfully passing the exam.
Benefits of Arduino Junior Certification
An opportunity to assess your students’ work in subjects that are typically difficult to evaluate.
Identify areas for improvement, whether that’s at an individual or class level.
An affordable way to certify skills.
Boost students’ confidence in STEM subjects with self-evaluation.
Take the exam online anywhere, at any time.
A springboard to more challenging learning with Arduino.
Electricity - Understanding concepts such as resistance, voltage, power and capacitance, and how to measure and calculate them
Reading Circuits and Schematics - Understanding how electronics are represented visually, and reading and analyzing electronic circuits
Arduino IDE - Understanding the functionality of the Arduino development environment, serial communication, libraries, and errors
Arduino Boards - Understanding the constitution and capabilities of an Arduino board and the functions of its different parts
Frequency - Understanding the concepts of Pulse Width modulation (PWM)
Electronic Components - Understanding how various electronic components such as LEDs, sensors, buttons, and motors work, and how to use them in a circuit
Programming Syntax and Semantics - Understanding the building blocks of the Arduino programming language such as functions, arguments, variables, and loops
Programming Logic - Ability to program various electronic components and read, analyze, and troubleshoot Arduino code