From: Jhumki Basu (sjbasu@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 15:52:02 PDT
From: "Jhumki Basu" <sjbasu@hotmail.com> Subject: Robotics Workshop Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 15:52:02 Message-ID: <F9677bieLYCT4aJ6pkN0001101d@hotmail.com>
NASA Ames is offering a robotics training workshop for teachers. The
information is below. Terry Grant is the contact for enrollment. Cheers,
Jhumki Basu
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** Terry L. Grant 650/604-4200 **
** NASA Ames Research Center Fax: 650/604-4036 **
** Mail-Stop 269-4 / Code IC **
** Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 grant@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov **
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>Robotics into the Science Curriculum
>Monday-Wednesday, July 16th-18th, 9:00am-3:30pm
>
>This 3-day workshop will provide detailed instruction and hands-on
>experience for teachers who already have begun or are interested in doing
>robotics with their students. To help support the student understanding of
>Information Technology, NASA has been sponsoring annual high school
>robotics
>competitions, such as the Botball Tournament produced by the KISS Institute
>for Practical Robotics. These competitions have been well received by
>teachers and students; this workshop is another step toward making "An
>Introduction to Robotics" part of the high school science curriculum
>Teachers will be provided with a broad introduction to robotics programming
>along with a library of ready-made software examples that represent a set
>of basic robot behaviors. The participants will work in teams of two and
>will experiment with loading, running and modifying example code. Each
>activity will end with an opportunity for the teachers to design and share
>short lesson plans. They will also explore some of the contests and
>projects that can be quickly developed as learning exercises and made part
>of their students' science classroom experience. Teachers with current
>Botball teams are requested to bring their kits. Novice robotics
>enthusiasts will be provided kit materials for workshop use.
>
>INSTRUCTORS: Terry Grant, a computer engineer at NASA\Ames Research Center,
>has 37 years experience in developing communications and data systems for
>planetary spacecraft. He has been a technical liaison for robotics
>competitions and developing robotics educational resource materials for the
>past three years. Jeneva Westendorf is a Social Sciences teacher at
>Foothill High School with 25 years experience teaching in the Bay Area.
>She
>has been using Botball robotics competitions as a motivational adjunct to
>her classes at Foothill for the past three years and is currently including
>a Robotics / Advanced Science course in the curriculum.
>
>GRADE LEVEL: 9th-12th
>COST: $40 deposit, which will be refunded to you at the end of this class
>thanks to support from NASA. Failure to attend or cancelling less than two
>weeks prior to the class will result in a forfeiture of the deposit.
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>Please respond quickly if you want to participate. We have reserved
>space for 12 teachers who participated in Botball this year, but
>after a period of time the workshop will be completely open to
>whoever registers first.
>-Terry
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