No fear: University of Minnesota Robotics Day Camp introduces local youth to hands-on technologies

Cannon, Kelly; LaPoint, M.A.; Bird, Nathaniel; Panciera, Katherine; Veeraraghavan, Harini; Papanikolopoulos, N.; Gini, Maria

doi:10.1109/robot.2006.1641738

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“…In response to concerns from 2005 that the younger students did not possess the hand-eye coordination and concentration necessary, the target age range was increased from ten through thirteen to eleven through fourteen [2]. Similarly, because many of the students found MATLAB to be overly challenging and less entertaining than other activities [2], MATLAB was removed from the curriculum.…”

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Second annual robotics summer camp for underrepresented students

2007

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The University of Minnesota Center for Distributed Robotics and the Digital Technology Center hosted the second annual Technology Day Camp, a week long camp targeting underrepresented students such as girls, African Americans, and Hispanics from the Twin Cities metro area. Students were surveyed prior to the camp revealing a strong proclivity towards math and science, but a resistance to the perceived lifestyle of computer scientists. With an emphasis on the college experience, building hardware, creating software, and interacting with robots, the camp implemented proposed changes from the previous year as well as new activities with a special emphasis on robotics. The successes and failures are discussed in an effort to provide insight for organizations hosting similar programs, new research questions are presented, and a materials list is provided.

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“…Similarly, because many of the students found MATLAB to be overly challenging and less entertaining than other activities [2], MATLAB was removed from the curriculum. A third change was the implementation of a large-scale take-home project in the place of two smaller hardware projects, which is discussed in Section 6.…”

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Second annual robotics summer camp for underrepresented students

2007

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“…There are a number of reports that describe the usefulness of robotics in teaching science, math and computing skills at all education levels [12,10,3]. However, the application of robotics in Computer Science first year sequences has lacked key elements required to success fully teach programming.…”

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Providing robotic experiences through object-based programming (PREOP)

Davis

Wellman

Anderson

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Proceedings of the 2009 Alice Symposium

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PREOP (Providing Robotic Experiences Through Object-BasedProgramming) is an integrated approach to using robots within the introductory Computer Science sequence. Rather than use the "program-by-wire" approach of existing tools, PREOP leverages an object-based, syntax-free environment. PREOP provides a physical, relevant, challenging problem domain that appeals to students. This paper presents the PREOP implementation, its technical challenges and the promising preliminary results.

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“…In general, a tailored building blocks based programming approach with application orientation will help students from all streams to show increased interest. Past reports have suggested that robotics were used in teaching science, math and computing skills [2,3,4,5]. The building block implementation similar to LEGO mindstorms NXT software is used for math, science and engineering education [6].…”

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An open source graphical robot programming environment in introductory programming curriculum for undergraduates

Rahul

Whitchurch²,

Rao

2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on MOOC, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE)

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A graphical programming tool is developed in a view to help beginners realize the importance of coding in the form of physical robotic movement. Introducing a programming language to students with no background is often felt to be challenging in terms of syntax and control flow of a language. The paper discusses an open source graphical programming tool built on Minibloq platform that allows students to focus more on creative part of programming. The paper proposes a graphical approach to programming where a student need not remember any constructs of a programming language, but relies on the approach to solve a problem. The programming utility is developed for an open source Arduino platform. Currently the tool is developed to control a real robot built around Arduino platform. Thus a platform to learn fundamentals of programming as well as robotics is made available to students. The graphical programming tool with the robotic hardware was found to be easy to learn by high school students during an outreach program conducted by the authors. The framework is also extendable beyond programming and can be further developed to understand robotics.

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No fear: University of Minnesota Robotics Day Camp introduces local youth to hands-on technologies

Cited by 16 publications

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Second annual robotics summer camp for underrepresented students

Second annual robotics summer camp for underrepresented students

Providing robotic experiences through object-based programming (PREOP)

An open source graphical robot programming environment in introductory programming curriculum for undergraduates

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