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Second annual robotics summer camp for underrepresented students

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Kelly R. Cannon,

Katherine A. Panciera,

Nikolaos P. PapanikolopoulosAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '07: Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1268784.1268791

Published: 25 June 2007 Publication History

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The University of Minnesota Center for Distributed Robotics and the Digital Technology Center hosted the second annual Technology Day Camp, a week long camp targeting underrepresented students such as girls, African Americans, and Hispanics from the Twin Cities metro area. Students were surveyed prior to the camp revealing a strong proclivity towards math and science, but a resistance to the perceived lifestyle of computer scientists. With an emphasis on the college experience, building hardware, creating software, and interacting with robots, the camp implemented proposed changes from the previous year as well as new activities with a special emphasis on robotics. The successes and failures are discussed in an effort to provide insight for organizations hosting similar programs, new research questions are presented, and a materials list is provided.

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ITiCSE '07: Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2007

386 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1268784

General Chair:
Janet Hughes
University of Dundee, UK
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University of Dundee, UK
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Paul Tymann
Rochester Institute of Technology

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 39, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE'07)
September 2007
366 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1269900
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