USAID/PEP, ATTE, Tufts University, University St. Kliment Ohridski, IEEE present First Annual Teacher Conference for Robotics in the Classroomto Bitola, Macedonia Thursday through Saturday
March 19 – 21, 2009 Attention all primary and secondary school teachers: ATTE - Bitola cordially invites you to submit applications for the First Annual Teacher Conference for Robotics in the Classroom and participate in the Roboteka workshop using LEGO robotics hosted by two engineering instructors from Tufts University’s Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Conference Purpose: The purpose of this conference is to explore robotics as a tool that can be used in the classroom for teaching science, math, technology and engineering. Participating teachers will receive certificates for participation and professional development. For more information please visit www.atte.mk or send an e-mail to
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Conference Information and Location: |
| Conference Schedule: Thursday March 19th:| | Conference Opening | 10:00-11:00
| Workshop:
| Intro to building and robotics programming.
| 11:00-13:00 | | | Lunch break
| 13:00-14:00 | | Activity: | Solving problems using building and programming. | 14:00-17:00 |
Friday March 20th:Workshop:
| Additional challenges and data logging.
| 09:00-12:00
| | | Lunch break
| 12:00-13:00
| Competition:
| Apply robotics knowledge to a competition challenge.
| 13:00-17:00 |
Saturday March 21st: (half-day)Presentations:
| Teachers sharing and presenting experiences in the classroom and plans for using robotics.
| 09:00-11:00
| | Key-note Speaker | -to be announced- | 11:00-12:00 | | Conclusions: | Discussion on using robotics in the classroom. | 12:00:14:00 |
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