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Botsville University
Ages 11 and up, and grown-ups
The bots built Botsville brick by brick, and now they’ve built a university for older kids and grown-ups who love to learn. Every video is calm, clear and fact-checked, with its sources listed.
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Botsville University Episode 1: Welcome to Botsville University!
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Botsville University Episode 1 Ages 11+Welcome to Botsville University!
The Builder Crew has built Botsville University, a campus for older kids and grown-ups who love to learn.
The bots built Botsville USA brick by brick, and it keeps on growing. Now the Builder Crew has built their biggest project yet: Botsville University, a campus for older kids and grown-ups who love to learn. Nana, the President of Botsville USA, has big news: Botsville is searching for the University's very first President. Someone wise, curious and kind. Who will it be? Stay tuned! Coming up at Botsville University: real science, how things work, the stories of history, smart money skills and the art of building.
What we’ll explore
- Science
- How Things Work
- History
- Money Skills
- Building
- The Botcoin story
Each topic gets its own list of videos as they arrive.
A learning topic for older kids and grown-ups
The Botcoin story
Long ago, old Botsville fell apart. Nobody took care of it, and it wasn’t run well, so it ran out of money. Now a new team of bots is building a brand-new world, brick by brick, with care, good planning and no debt.
So the new bots made a careful plan for their money. They mined their own coin, called Botcoin, and every Botcoin is backed by gold, kept safe in a secret mountain vault. Bit by bit, they have built up big savings.
In the story, the bots earn Botcoins by working on building jobs around the city, save some of every Botcoin they earn, and “buy” things only with Botcoins they already have. The lessons will look at what money is, why some money is backed by something like gold, and why saving and staying debt-free help a city, and a family, stay strong.
Just pretend: Botcoin is a pretend coin in the Botsville story. It isn’t real money or a real investment, and you can’t actually buy it.
For simple money skills for younger kids, visit Finance →
How we check facts
Every Botsville University video lists its sources under the player and in the video description, so you can check each fact yourself.