1. RSS Workshop on Research in Robots for Education June 30, 2007 Atlanta, GA

2. Organizers Doug Blank Maria Hybinette Keith O’Hara Daniela Rus

3. Schedule 9:10 - 10:30 Participation Session 10:30 - 10:55 Coffee Break 10:55 - 12:15 Platforms Session 12:15 - 1:15Lunch Break 1:15 - 2:35Pedagogy Session 2:35 - 3:00Closing Discussion

4. Format 3 Sessions –Six 10 minute presentations –20 minute discussion Full papers available on website Presentations available after workshop (hopefully!) http://www.roboteducation.org/rss-2007/

5. Participation Session Attraction and Retention

6. Pedagogy Session Curriculum and Evaluation

7. Platforms Session Hardware and Software

8. Age –K-5, 6-8, 9-12, Undergrad, Graduate, “General” Educational Environment –Class, Club, Contest, Gallery, … Educational Discipline –Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Geology, Philosophy, Art … Crosscutting Themes

9. Participation Session Susan Crowe Experience with Robots for Education at the High School Level Michael Dumont Games or Robots? Restoring Excitement to Introductory Computing Fred MartinThe iCode System: An On-Line Curriculum, Programming, and Design Portal for Student Microcontroller and Robotics Projects Fred Stillwell Experience with Robots for Education at the Middle School Level Jerry WeinbergThe Impact of Robot Projects on Girls Attitudes Toward Science and Engineering Joel WeingartenRobotics as the Delivery Vehicle: A contexualized, social, self paced, engineering education for life-long learners

10. LUNCHLUNCH LUNCHLUNCH

11. Platforms Session Monica AndersonPlayer/Stage: A Unifying Paradigm to Improve Robotics Education Delivery Kristie BrownLego Robot Education Platforms Marco MoralesVizmo++: A Visualization, Authoring, and Educational Tool for Motion Planning Jesus SavageThe Use of the ViRbot System to Teach Principles of Software Programming and Mobile Robots Eric Schweikardt roBlocks: Understanding Emergent Complexity from the Bottom Up Stewart TansleyMicrosoft Robotics Studio as a Robot Education Platform

12. Pedagogy Session Doug BlankPersonal Robots for CS-1 Michael GennertA Robotics Engineering Major Aaron DollarThe Robotics OpenCourseWare Project Wen-Jung HsinAssembly Programming using Simple Mindstorms RCX Robots Fred MartinArtbotics: Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Disciplinary, Community-Based Learning in Computer Science, Robotics, and Art

13. Discussion TBD