Title of Initiative / Project
Robotics and Automation Careers in Engineering – RACE
Name of Organiser
Grup Scolar 'Nicolina', Iasi
Start and ending date of the Initiative
2011 - 2013
Was the initiative carried out in the framework of a funded project?
Yes
Funding Programme
LLP – Leonardo Partnerships
Title of the project
Robotics and Automation Careers in Engineering – RACE
Promoter
Grup Scolar 'Nicolina', Iasi
Type of deliverables
Teaching Methodology, Didactical resource
Language of the deliverable
Italian, Other EU, Romanian, Spanish, English
Target Group
Teachers, Students
Description of the initiative
Robotics as a new science and its importance today.
Developing/Enhancing/Improving professional competencies for teachers and students
Career Growth
Step by step approach :
1. Analyzing and sharing technical educational practices and experiences developed by participating organizations and implemented at different national levels.
2. Forming the team-work of teachers and students and creating the Program for exploring the project’s themes. Additional instruments for creating/measuring social representation/role of robots in daily life will be created.
3. Direct involvement of trainers in drafting the contents of the practical workshops ‘How to build your robot’ (to be discussed by partners). An English version will be jointly defined by partners, each one focusing on a specific aspect. Testing/Translation of the contents into each national language.
4. Creating the Robot’s Clubs in every partner’s institution and implement workshops created in the first year: students building robots with engines or/and robots with sensors added by a certain programming language and individual design (according to the capacity and skills of students and teachers involved). The work can be organized both in National and International teams.
5. Gathering new words at robotics in terms of VOLL (to be published)
6. Robots by partners will be presented in a final festival-competition.
More Information
Strengths
Developing/Enhancing/Improving professional competencies in robotics for both teachers and students
Promoting a challenging/ state-of-the-art topic: robotics
Enhancing communication and collaboration by sharing technical educational practices and experiences
Raising awareness about the role of robots in daily life
Increasing organizational skills by involving both teachers and students in creating the Robot’s Clubs in every partner’s institution and implementing workshops
Linking theory with practice: Students building robots with engines or/and robots with sensors added by a certain programming language and individual design (according to the capacity and skills of students and teachers involved
Stimulating students’ creativity and imagination
Developing students’ critical thinking, team work, presentation skills
Weaknesses
Limited access due to lack of time, materials, capacity and skills of students and teachers involved
Teachers’ Opinion
Strengths
Developing/Enhancing/Improving professional competencies in robotics for both teachers and students
Promoting a challenging/ state-of-the-art topic: robotics
Enhancing communication and collaboration by sharing technical educational practices and experiences
Raising awareness about the role of robots in daily life
Involving both teachers and students in creating the Robot’s Clubs in every partner’s institution and implementing workshops
Illustrating the applicability of the topic: Devising the contents of the practical workshops ‘How to build your robot’
Linking theory with practice: Students building robots with engines or/and robots with sensors
Developing students’ creativity
Stimulating students’ critical thinking, logical and analytical thinking
Weaknesses
Limited access due to lack of time, materials, capacity and skills of students and teachers involved
Students’ Opinion
Strengths
Developing professional competencies in robotics for students
Promoting a challenging/ state-of-the-art topic: robotics
Enhancing communication and collaboration by sharing technical educational practices and experiences
Raising awareness about the role of robots in daily life
Linking theory with practice: Students building robots with engines
Weaknesses
Limited access due to lack of time, materials, equipment, capacity and skills of students and teachers involved
Comments on this Relevant initiatives
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Date: 2015.03.03
Posted by Jose Luís Aznar (Spain)
Robotics is one of the best ways to enter in engineering. Making and programing robots, students have to solve a great variety of engineering problems like physics, electronics, computers, science of the materials and many more topics.
Is not necessary that every student of today make robots in the future, but making robots, they can find their way to learn technicals.
Date: 2015.02.26
Posted by Dragos Zamosteabu (Romania)
Robotics engages students in complex, strategic problem-solving and higher-order thinking—a set of skills that is a high priority for 21st century education. What is more, this kind of problem-solving can be introduced in a gradual, self-motivated way, so beginner students can experience satisfying achievements right away and can quickly move on to new challenges in a continuous progression toward greater levels of sophistication.
Robotics is a great way to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics. Studies show that it is highly effective in developing team-work and self-confidence.
Date: 2015.02.16
Posted by Sandis (Latvia)
Robotics are our future. This initiatives help students to understand how work robots and how they are made. Project could consist with more methodology about robotics.
