C-STEM in the News

The C-STEM Center hosted its first annual C-STEM/NCWIT Girl’s Leadership Camp for Computing and Robotics for middle school girls on July 22-26, 2013. Sruti Modekurty, a past NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award national runner-up and NorCal Affiliate Winner and electrical & computer engineering student at Carnegie Mellon University, led this program along with two UC Davis female students and six high school girls. It was attended by 15 middle school girls from the greater Sacramento region. The girls who participated in the workshop were given Barobo robotics kits to take back to their middle schools so they can start computing and robotics clubs of their own. Mentors from the GCRC will meet with the clubs over the 2013-2014 school year to facilitate the development of these clubs and their participation in RoboPlay Competition.

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The UC Davis C-STEM Center has received a grant of $950,000 from the National Science Foundation for a three-year project to study the impact of computing and robotics in teaching science, technology, engineering and math in secondary schools.
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The UC Davis C-STEM Center has received a grant of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation to study collaborative mathematics learning with robots. This two-year project aims to transform math education by integrating computer programming, robotics, and handheld computing into middle and high school math classrooms.
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ABC Channel 7 shows the robotics research work conducted by Professor Harry H. Cheng, Director of the C-STEM Center, and his research group. It reports that “robots that change shape and adapt their functions are not just science fiction.”

The University of California, Davis announces C-STEM Day on Saturday, April 30, 2011, held at Bainer and Kemper halls on the university campus. Hosted by the UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM) and College of Engineering, the event will provide an overview of the challenges of teaching STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, math) to K-12 students, offer insight into successful approaches to STEM instruction, and provide an opportunity for local K-12 educators to share their needs for instructional support and successful experiences.

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