Fostering Science and Technology Interest in Chilean Children with Educational Robot Kits
These days stand on a digital era, where science and technology are two key concepts for understanding the fundamentals of devices people cope daily. In order to increase the population size of at least, technology friendly users, fostering the algorithmic thinking process on children is a crucial step and has taken more relevance every year. This document presents the experience of a group of students highly committed to present to children the exciting underlying concepts found on robotics, through practical sessions whose ending is marked by a national competition for school children, where the acquired solving problems skills using robotics can be tested. These courses have been extended both on impact and physical locations: some children are taken to compete at RoboCup Junior, and there has been an increasing interest of attend to these free courses on several places from all over the country.
2016 XIII Latin American Robotics Symposium and IV Brazilian Robotics Symposium (LARS/SBR)