No fear: University of Minnesota robotics day camp introduces local youth to hands-on technologies

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 363-368

  Cannon, Kelly ^a   LaPoint, Monica Anderson ^a   Bird, Nate ^a   Panciera, Katie ^a   Veeraraghavan, Harini ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Gini, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; POSITIVE RESPONSE; UNIVERSITY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LOGIC DESIGN; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTS; SURVEYS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845632962     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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