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ROBOTICS. IN THE CLASSROOM. GOALS AND OBJECTIVE. Establish girls robotics club Develop higher level Robotics (Robolab) Communicate requirements and club activities Use RCX and TI73 calculators to engage student learning Establish team competition Involve Others.
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ROBOTICS IN THE CLASSROOM
GOALS AND OBJECTIVE • Establish girls robotics club • Develop higher level Robotics (Robolab) • Communicate requirements and club activities • Use RCX and TI73 calculators to engage student learning • Establish team competition • Involve Others
Establish Diverse Robotic Participation • Data on Girls 3-5% choose to enter the engineering field. • Goal improve Coronado girls participation from 1% to 5%. • Increase Hispanic and Asian representation from 0 to 3%
HOW TO CHANGE THE STATS! • Demonstrate robotic designs and allow student-demos. • Advertise & recruit students to join robotics club. • Establish boys and girls robotics club. • Serve Snacks! Have Fun!
Strategies for returning students! • Introduce Robolab • Start a summer league. • Establish an independent/ consulting environment.
Classroom Implementation • Use “SumoBot” demonstrations to represent Newton’s Second Law of Motion. • Demonstrate Newton’s Third Law of Motion by constructing two robots of unequal size. • Use a catapult and distance sensor to determine distance of a marshmallow.
Classroom Implementation • Use termisters, RCX brick and classroom thermometers to determine various temperatures. • Allow students to use Microsoft excel to construct charts and graph trend-line.
Club Implementations • Boys - introduce Robolab • Girls - introduce RIS • Establish inter-team and cross-team competitions • Establish competitions with Central Middle School and Blue Valley School (before Open House). • Establish Fund Raising Activities
Help! Seek assistance of: • K-State • Parents • School Administration • Other colleagues
The Ultimate Goal • Increase total student interest in engineering by 5% via robotics. • Introduce students to a senior college environment. • Develop Scientific Inquiry! • Learn while having Fun! • JUST DO IT!