Neal Grandgenett, Bing Chen, Elliott Ostler SPIRIT Robotics Neal Grandgenett, Bing Chen, Elliott Ostler http://ceen.unomaha.edu/TekBots/

A Little About SPIRIT: SPIRIT (NSF: ITEST) PKI’s Computer Electronics and Engineering UNO’s College of Education OPS’ Mathematics and Science SPIRIT (NSF: ITEST) Silicon Prairie Initiative for Robotics in IT • Teacher Training (Robotics) • Teachers Develop Lesson Ideas SPIRIT 2.0 (NSF: Discovery K12) Silicon Prairie Initiative for Robotics in IT 2.0 • New Robotics Innovations • National Robotics CyberCurriculum http://www.ceen. unomaha.edu/TekBots/ http://www.ceen.unomaha.edu/TekBots/Shared/jumbotron07/index.html

Problem Based Learning (Lesson Context)

Lessons by Teachers (small sample shown) Moving Tekbot Building of Tekbot Programming Tekbot Engineering

Evaluation Information on our Website

Student Test Scores Results suggest that students in the classes of teachers using these techniques are scoring above district and school averages.

Teacher Perceptions Results of teacher perceptions suggest that teachers are increasing their understanding of STEM-related topics and strategies, with a particular growth in engineering and robotics.

Planned Curriculum Cyber-infrastructure:

Final Comment: “We have not succeeded in answering all of your problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways, we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.” Omni Magazine, 1992