Status
In progress
Doug Blank
Dates
Activity Date
November 19, 2013
Target Completion Date
November 19, 2017
Goal statement
Create materials for students to use to easily transition into CS1, and beyond. Materials should including interesting contexts, such as robots and art, to attract them to authentic and stimulating topics.
Activity Description
We have developed software that allows multiple languages to use robots with cameras, and make interesting art, animations, and games.
Lessons Learned
One of the first lessons that we have learned is that robots can be engaging for women in a first-year college CS course. We weren't sure this would be the case. However, we this may depend on careful design of the software and hardware. See http://calicoproject.org for more details.
Goal tag(s)
Recruiting
Retaining
Comments
What type of robots?
What type of robots did you use?
Re: What type of robots?
We use the Scribbler robot and a addon board sold by betterbots.com. You can see more about the project at wiki.roboteducation.org
Re: Very interesting!
The students made all kinds of art and animations. Here is a sampling of ideas:
http://calicoproject.org/Calico_Nifty_Projects