Improving student performance with an extra-curricular robotics club
Charles N. Stevenson · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2011
We developed an extra-curricular robotics club in order to strengthen the academic performance of our computer science students and to increase their understanding of different career paths that are open to them. Despite the small size or our program, around 100 students, the club has the determined participation of six to eight students, including women and minority students. The club's activities increased the student's practical knowledge of embedded systems by developing low-cost line-following robots using inexpensive RC cars and 8-bit microcontrollers. Some of the technical content created by the club's activities will now be used in the first offering of a robotics course.