RoboCop: today and tomorrow-what we have learned
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on Robocop: the first step
Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas
Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas
The evolution of a computational outreach program to secondary school students
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Bringing the breadth of computer science to middle schools
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Application of NXT based robots for teaching java-based concurrency
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A framework for enhancing the social good in computing education: a values approach
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Reflections from a computational service learning trip to Haiti
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
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This paper describes a program in which undergraduates mentor teams of local middle and high school students on robotics projects. These teams learn and apply the scientific, mathematical, and computing fundamentals behind the construction of robots and the design of control algorithms. The mentors play a crucial role in the effectiveness of the program. Mentor training has evolved over the five-year life of the program from ad-hoc preparation to a service-learning course where students learn both the technical skills required to design, construct, and test, mobile robots and the pedagogical techniques necessary to mentor middle and high school students. We provide an overview of the program and some evaluation results.