Control Engineering At School: Learning By Examples

The joint project of St. Petersburg State University and St. Petersburg Phys&Math Lyceum 239 ≪Cyberphysical laboratory≫ has started in 2008. As a result of the project the technique of teaching the elements of the control theory at school has been developed. Using the simple devices on the basis of Lego Mindstorms NXT, students of elementary school have started to master a science currently accessible only to high school or university students. In the paper some ideas and recent findings of the project are described.