Co-Robotics: Robots, Drones + Humans

Participate and share : Poster

Wednesday, December 2, 3:00–4:00 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)

Lissie Fein
Dr. Beryl Hoffman
Dr. Florence Sullivan
Andrew Pasquale
Learn about GaleForce, an immersive collaborative robotics (co-robotics) 3D Unity game that we are developing as part of our NSF project Girls Immersed in Robotics Learning Simulations (GIRLS) where students program robots and drones to help a community to recover from a hurricane.

Audience:	Teachers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices not needed
Participant accounts, software and other materials:	None. We will bring all equipment necessary.
Topic:	Computer science & computational thinking
Grade level:	6-12
Subject area:	Computer science
ISTE Standards:	For Educators: Designer Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. Facilitator Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems. For Students: Computational Thinker Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

- Poster viewers will learn about the NSF-funded project GIRLS (Girls Immersed in Robotics Learning Simulations) and about co-robotics.
- Participants will be able to try samples of the curriculum using drones and robots.

Outline

We will present our initial co-robotics curriculum for Girls Immersed in Robotics Learning Simulations (GIRLS) and an immersive virtual game in development involving collaborative robotics (co-robotics) where students program robots and drones to help a community to recover from a hurricane.

Supporting research

Washington Post (2015). DARPA’s robotics challenge has a gender problem. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/06/05/darpas-robotics-challenge-has-a-gender-problem

Sullivan, F.R., Keith, P.K., Söken, A., & Pham, D. (2018). Learning to think computationally: Comparative outcomes of a robotics workshop for girls. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences bi-annual meeting, London, UK, June 23-27, 2018.

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Presenters

Lissie Fein, Holyoke Codes

Dr. Beryl Hoffman, Elms College

Dr. Florence Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst