Requiring outreach from a CS0-level robotics course
Janice L. Pearce · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2011
Since Fall 2006, Berea College has offered a CS0-level course entitled Introduction to Robotics. This course is one course among many which students can choose to satisfy a practical reasoning requirement in our institution's general education program. In each of the last two years of course offerings, the course has included a required outreach assignment in which students demonstrate the robots and their programming to children in the larger community. The positive college student response to this added outreach requirement is explored in this article.