Once the study is complete all students will More efficient way to teach novice robotic programming skills. That students do not eventual program and engineer real robots, but we are trying to determine if there is a We anticipate that the actual study will take between four to six weeks of class time. Software and the next semester’s class would use ROBOTC and the actual physical robots.

To a different group of kids) The teacher would pick one class to learn to program using the RVW simulation (Robotics 1 is offered first semester and then Robotics 1 is offered again the second semester A teacher that teaches an introductory robotics classes each semester to different groups of (this group learns to program using real robots) and the other group learns to program using the RVW. A teacher that teaches two or more sections where we can have one group act as a control group Participate using the Robot Virtual World software. A teacher that wants their kids to learn to program LEGO or VEX robots and would like to We are looking for the following types of teachers: Our study builds on numerous studies involving teaching novice programming using robots i. The simulation environment removes potential problems associated with a robot’s electronics,mechanics, power, and placement allowing the student to focus on troubleshooting their code rather than their robot. We believe that students will learn many aspects of how to program robots quicker and better using a robotic simulation environment like the ROBOTC Robot Virtual World (RVW) than if they if they learn to program using a physical robot.

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