With SPIKE Prime, students build robots and use an app to program the robots in Scratch — a drag-and-drop programming language that's popular as a teaching tool.

SPIKE Essential comes with 449 Lego bricks that are contained in a storage box, which also provides two sorting trays. In addition, there are four Lego Minifigure characters, a Hub, two motors, a ...

The new $330 Spike Prime kit is targeted toward children in grades 6–8. It includes over 500 Technic pieces, and it’s programmed using a Lego-made app built off the Scratch language.