Work in progress: Gender impacts of relevant robotics curricula on high school students' engineering attitudes and interest

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Terry, Benjamin S ^a   Briggs, Brandi N ^a   Rivale, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender friendly messaging; High school; Robotics curriculum

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ROBOTICS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; ENGINEERING EDUCATORS; ENGINEERING INTERESTS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; GENDER FRIENDLY MESSAGING; HIGH SCHOOL; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; K-12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ROBOTICS COURSE; WORK IN PROGRESS;

INNOVATION; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STUDENTS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84858195284     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2011.6143090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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