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Using Interactive Technology to Teach Basic Algorithmic Instructions

TEAM MEMBERS: Josue Mayorga , Yassin Moghazy , Shawna Cassagnol
ADVISORS: Dr. Anca Doloc-Mihu , Dr. Cindy Robertson
TECH: cozmo
DIFFICULTY: intermediate
TARGET AUDIENCE: k-12 , middle-school , high-school , college
DURATION: 60 minutes
CURATOR(S): Trung Dao
PUBLISHED DATE: Aug 11 2024
CREATED IN SEMESTER: Fall 2019
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Interactive technology can be used to teach programming concepts to students more easily. Technology can seem hard to understand and scare off students with little understanding of it.

The focus of the project is to teach students what an algorithm is and how it works while using interactive technology to pique their interest. The students will be asked to write a program that navigates a Cozmo inside a maze, retrieves a block, and returns it to the user.

The Technology Ambassador Program at GGC strives to break the misconceptions of the IT field by providing fun workshops for students of all backgrounds. TAP students design engaging and fun outreach workshops to encourage interest in IT and STEM.

Team members

Wanda Group Photo

From left to right: Yassin Moghazy, Shawna Cassagnol, Josue Mayorga

Outreach Activities

  1. Super Saturday Series(S3), Nov.9, 2019, GGC. - middle and high school girls to promote IT and STEM career
  2. Tap Expo, Oct.10, 2019,GGC. - To promote the IT field and the TAP program to college students
  3. Classroom Workshops - on Nov.11, Nov.13 and Nov.15, 2019 3 occasions, to promote IT field to non-IT college students

Publication & Workshops

  1. CCSCSE Poster Presentation: October 25th 2019 Auburn, Alabama
  2. CREATE Symposium: November 21st 2019 Georgia Gwinnett College

Technology

Cozmo Robot

Setup & Installation

  1. Download the Cozmo App (it can be found on the Google Play store and the Apple store).
  2. Connect to Cozmo through its wifi (move its lift up and down and the wifi password will appear).
  3. You should be connected to Cozmo now!
  4. How to construct a maze

Workshops

  1. Workshop step-by-step
  2. Commented code

How to run & Usage

  1. Cozmo comes with a bunch of different activites that it is able to perform such as an Explorer Mode where the user can navigate it with the smart device connected, a visual progrramming mode where users are able to code Cozmo to do certain actions with block coding and much more.