Dear Diary: Girls love Robots
In 2006, CMU researches began thinking about how to use robot building as a way of boosting technological fluency in middle school girls. They hoped to improve the "dismally low number" of women in computer science and engineering fields by offering a more motivating alternative to traditional education. The result was Robot Diaries, a series of workshops where girls built robots (photos of another workshop). A huge amount of feedback and analysis was collected during the workshops, to learn what worked and what didn't. The participants spent almost as much time keeping activity logs, being interviewed, debriefed, surveyed, and observed as they did building robots. The end result was a program and curriculum researchers believe engages the girls, while at the same time changing the attitudes of their parents, which tends to force girls into stereotypical roles. To read more about how the programs worked, what they tried, and what worked, check out the verbosely named paper, "Robot Diaries Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls" (PDF format). Like to try it at your school? CMU has made the curriculum for the one-day workshop available online. This research was done by the CMU Robotic Institute's CREATE Lab.
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