Help! I've Been Asked to Mentor a Robotics Team
Mary L. Stephen, Sharon Locke · SPARK (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) · 2018
entoring a robotics team can teach you how to incorporate engineering principles into your science curriculum, as called for in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), by allowing you to engage in engineering design experiences and increase your comfort with these activities.Bringing engineering into science classrooms takes time and practice, and science teachers with no engineering experience can find it challenging to integrate engineering design into the science curriculum in a way that maintains connections between engineering design and science content (Cunningham and Carlsen 2014;Dare, Ellis, and Roehrig 2014).Robotics team mentors serve as facilitators who guide and support students through the problem-solving process.They encourage students to reflect on and learn from failures and to understand that there is more than one way to solve a problem.Students' successes are influenced by a mentor's ability to motivate individuals and create an environment in which stu-Students participating in the Botball challenge.