Lego robotics products boots student creativity in pre-college programs at UMES

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Nagchaudhuri, Abhijit ^a   Singh, Gurbax ^a   Kaur, Manpreet ^a   George, Sudhakar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; LEGO Dacta; LEGO mindstorm; Pre College

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

ACTIVE LEARNING; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; STUDENT CREATIVITY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 17144450870     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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