Widening the K-12 pipeline at a critical juncture with Flash™
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Bringing the breadth of computer science to middle schools
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
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With the goal of inspiring at-risk middle school students, we have developed an innovative curriculum using one sixth replicas of the rovers currently on Mars. Each student receives hands-on experience by performing missions in a simulation program. These missions allow students to relate to the process of controlling the actual rovers. Furthermore, students have an opportunity to remotely program and control the replicas in a realistic Martian landscape created in the basement of a middle school. Programming robots in this landscape is the centerpiece of a Technology curriculum in all four middle schools in the Allentown School District as well as a summer and Saturday program at Lehigh University.