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Inspiring Girls to Pursue Careers in STEM with a Mentor-Supported Robotics Project

Author(s) -

S. Mahmoodi Takaghaj,

C.J.B. Macnab,

Sharon Friesen

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

2011 asee annual conference and exposition proceedings

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--18188

Subject(s) - club , robotics , class (philosophy) , robot , artificial intelligence , clearance , educational robotics , table (database) , engineering , competition (biology) , mathematics education , management , computer science , psychology , medicine , ecology , biology , economics , urology , anatomy , data mining

This paper describes an innovative program with Lego Mindst orms NXT designed to interest young girls in careers in Science, Technology, Eng ineering, and Mathematics (STEM). A female engineering graduate student mentored the girls registered in the program on a monthly basis at their schools over eight months . T e mentor designed a fun robot competition for the girls, for which the girls were fre e to build any design of robot they thought appropriate using the parts from one Mindstorm kit. The competition was part of the IEEE Western Canadian Robot Games held in May 2010 . Surveys were conducted at the beginning and end of this program to measure girls attitudes towards STEM careers, in order to gage the effectiveness of this prog ram.

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