Integrated STEAM education through global robotics art festival (GRAF)

Author

Chung, ChanJin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Technol. Univ., Southfield, MI, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

8-8 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Robotics is all about STEM and art is tightly coupled with all the STEM components. A robotics art festival integrating robotics and arts was launched in Michigan in November 2013 to foster interest and engage students in STEM success. Pre-college students entered computer programmed interactive robotics projects in categories: visual arts and performing arts. 13 teams participated in the inaugural event from 2 U. S. States, Canada, and Mexico. Projects demonstrated creative applications of STEM subjects into art projects. Student survey results show that integrating arts with robotics was an effective hands-on paradigm that even brings beauty, joy, fun, and creativity while learning STEM subjects and computing.

Keywords

art; computer aided instruction; control engineering education; robots; GRAF; STEAM education; computer programmed interactive robotics project; global robotics art festival; performing arts; visual arts; Art; Education; Kinetic theory; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Visualization; STEAM education; TEAMS education; robotics arts; robotics education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3228-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISECon.2014.6891011

Filename

6891011