TY - GEN
T1 - Second annual robotics summer camp for underrepresented students
AU - Cannon, Kelly R.
AU - Panciera, Katherine A.
AU - Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos P
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Education
KW - Middle school
KW - Robotics
KW - Underrepresented groups
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U2 - 10.1145/1268784.1268791
DO - 10.1145/1268784.1268791
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34548083945
SN - 1595936106
SN - 9781595936103
T3 - ITiCSE 2007: 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Inclusive Education in Computer Science
SP - 14
EP - 18
BT - ITiCSE 2007
T2 - ITiCSE 2007: 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Inclusive Education in Computer Science
Y2 - 25 June 2007 through 27 June 2007
ER -