Increasing participation from underrepresented minorities in STEM through robotics clubs

Author

Yuen, Timothy T. ; Ek, Lucila D. ; Scheutze, Andrew

Author_Institution

Interdiscipl. Learning & Teaching, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

26-29 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

28

Abstract

This paper describes our team´s efforts in designing and establishing after-school robotics clubs throughout the San Antonio area in order to increase Hispanic participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. We discuss our model of informal learning environments for motivating minority children from linguistically and culturally diverse populations as well as the implementation plan used for partnering with schools to start after-school robotics clubs.

Keywords

control engineering education; educational institutions; social sciences; Hispanic participation; STEM; San Antonio area; after-school robotics clubs; culturally diverse populations; informal learning environments; linguistically diverse populations; minority children motivation; science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics fields; underrepresented minorities; Educational institutions; Educational robots; Robot kinematics; Sociology; Statistics; Robotics; STEM education initiatives; mentorship; underrepresentation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bali

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2013.6654392

Filename

6654392