A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT
© 2020 IEEE. Robotics competitions at the high school level attract a large number of students across the world. However, there is little emphasis on leveraging robotics to get middle school students excited about pursuing STEM education. In this paper, we describe a new program that targets middle...
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| author | Chen, Sabina Fishberg, Andrew Shimelis, Eyassu Grimm, Joel van Broekhoven, Scott Shin, Robert Karaman, Sertac |
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| description | © 2020 IEEE. Robotics competitions at the high school level attract a large number of students across the world. However, there is little emphasis on leveraging robotics to get middle school students excited about pursuing STEM education. In this paper, we describe a new program that targets middle school students in a local, four-week setting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It aims to excite students by teaching the very basics of computer vision and robotics. The students program mini car-like robots, equipped with state-of-The-Art computers, to navigate autonomously in a mock race track. We describe the hardware and software infrastructure that enables the program, the details of our curriculum, and the results of a short assessment. In addition, we describe four short programs, as well as a session where we teach high school teachers how to teach similar courses at their schools to their own students. The self-Assessment indicates that the students feel more confident in programming and robotics after leaving the program, which we hope will enable them to pursue STEM education and robotics initiatives at school. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1369872023-02-06T19:57:30Z A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT Chen, Sabina Fishberg, Andrew Shimelis, Eyassu Grimm, Joel van Broekhoven, Scott Shin, Robert Karaman, Sertac Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics © 2020 IEEE. Robotics competitions at the high school level attract a large number of students across the world. However, there is little emphasis on leveraging robotics to get middle school students excited about pursuing STEM education. In this paper, we describe a new program that targets middle school students in a local, four-week setting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It aims to excite students by teaching the very basics of computer vision and robotics. The students program mini car-like robots, equipped with state-of-The-Art computers, to navigate autonomously in a mock race track. We describe the hardware and software infrastructure that enables the program, the details of our curriculum, and the results of a short assessment. In addition, we describe four short programs, as well as a session where we teach high school teachers how to teach similar courses at their schools to their own students. The self-Assessment indicates that the students feel more confident in programming and robotics after leaving the program, which we hope will enable them to pursue STEM education and robotics initiatives at school. 2021-11-01T17:03:47Z 2021-11-01T17:03:47Z 2020-08-01 2021-04-30T17:56:57Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136987 Chen, Sabina, Fishberg, Andrew, Shimelis, Eyassu, Grimm, Joel, van Broekhoven, Scott et al. 2020. "A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT." 2020 9th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, ISEC 2020. en 10.1109/isec49744.2020.9280694 2020 9th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, ISEC 2020 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf IEEE arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Chen, Sabina Fishberg, Andrew Shimelis, Eyassu Grimm, Joel van Broekhoven, Scott Shin, Robert Karaman, Sertac A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT |
| title | A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT |
| title_full | A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT |
| title_fullStr | A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT |
| title_short | A Hands-on Middle-School Robotics Software Program at MIT |
| title_sort | hands on middle school robotics software program at mit |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136987 |
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