Building young engineers: TASEM for third graders in woodcreek magnet elementary school

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-82

  Varney, Michael W ^a   Janoudi, Abed ^a   Aslam, Dean M ^a   Graham, Diane ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Lansing School District   (United States)

Author keywords

Elementary education; LEGO robotics; outreach; science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; OUTREACH; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHS; YOUNG ENGINEER;

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84857029769     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2011.2131143     Document Type: Article

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