RSS Workshop on

Research in Robots for Education

June 30, 2007Atlanta, GA

RSS Workshop on

Research in Robots for Education

June 30, 2007Atlanta, GA

OrganizersOrganizers

Doug Blank

Maria Hybinette

Keith O’Hara

Daniela Rus

ScheduleSchedule

9:10 - 10:30 Participation Session

10:30 - 10:55 Coffee Break10:55 - 12:15 Platforms Session12:15 - 1:15 Lunch Break 1:15 - 2:35 Pedagogy Session 2:35 - 3:00 Closing Discussion

FormatFormat

• 3 Sessions– Six 10 minute presentations– 20 minute discussion

• Full papers available on website• Presentations available after

workshop (hopefully!)

http://www.roboteducation.org/rss-2007/

Participation Session

Attractionand

Retention

Participation Session

Attractionand

Retention

Pedagogy Session

Curriculumand

Evaluation

Pedagogy Session

Curriculumand

Evaluation

Platforms Session

Hardwareand

Software

Platforms Session

Hardwareand

Software

• Age– K-5, 6-8, 9-12, Undergrad, Graduate,

“General”

• Educational Environment– Class, Club, Contest, Gallery, …

• Educational Discipline– Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace

Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Geology, Philosophy, Art …

Crosscutting ThemesCrosscutting Themes

Participation SessionParticipation Session• Susan Crowe Experience with Robots for Education at the

High School Level• Michael Dumont Games or Robots? Restoring Excitement to

Introductory Computing• Fred Martin The iCode System: An On-Line Curriculum,

Programming, and Design Portal for Student Microcontroller and Robotics Projects

• Fred Stillwell Experience with Robots for Education at the Middle School Level

• Jerry Weinberg The Impact of Robot Projects on Girls Attitudes Toward Science and Engineering

• Joel Weingarten Robotics as the Delivery Vehicle: A contexualized, social, self paced, engineering

education for life-long learners

LUNCH

LUNCH

Platforms SessionPlatforms Session• Monica Anderson Player/Stage: A Unifying Paradigm to

Improve Robotics Education Delivery

• Kristie Brown Lego Robot Education Platforms• Marco Morales Vizmo++: A Visualization, Authoring,

and Educational Tool for Motion Planning• Jesus Savage The Use of the ViRbot System to

Teach Principles of Software Programming and Mobile Robots

• Eric Schweikardt roBlocks: Understanding Emergent Complexity from the Bottom Up

• Stewart Tansley Microsoft Robotics Studio as a Robot Education Platform

Pedagogy SessionPedagogy Session• Doug Blank Personal Robots for CS-1• Michael Gennert A Robotics Engineering Major• Aaron Dollar The Robotics OpenCourseWare

Project• Wen-Jung Hsin Assembly Programming using

Simple Mindstorms RCX Robots • Fred Martin Artbotics: Challenges and

Opportunities for Multi-Disciplinary, Community-Based Learning in Computer Science, Robotics, and Art

DiscussionDiscussion

• TBD