We would like to take this opportunity to develop Svante, an open source educational robot and a graphical programming language that will serve as a new pedagogical tool in schools. We believe that Svante will solve the requests from teachers, students and parents on modernising the way technology is taught in schools. Svante will be a first class product that will support the younger users in learning about technology. Svante will be targeted at children of lower secondary level (mellanstadiet) as a platform to learn mechanics, electronics, robotics and programming. The graphical software language will be customized to this user group; it will be a mix of graphical and text based interfaces.