On the UC Davis Picnic Day, April 20, 2013, the C-STEM Center hosted hands-on playing with Mobots for children and their families at Bainer Hall lobby. A large number of kids enjoyed playing with Mobots, build their own robotic systems with Mobot modular robots, and watching sample RoboPlay videos.
Read More..On March 30, the C-STEM Center hosted the Awards Ceremony for the NCWIT Affiliate Award for Aspirations in Computing. Winners from the Northern California region spent the Saturday on the UC Davis Campus, which included lab tours and the Awards Ceremony.
Read More..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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On August 9, the UC Davis CREST Fellows presented their work from their summer on the UC Davis campus as part of the C-STEM Center’s CREST program. “Computing Research Experiences for STEM Teachers” (CREST), a National Science Foundation’s Fellowship program, brings a dedicated team of regional middle and secondary Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) teachers to collaborate with UC Davis faculty to produce an engaging, hands-on curriculum specifically for math, computing, robotics, and technology. This innovative approach was presented to school faculty and administrators to encourage the adoption of the curricula.
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