Hummingbird Duo Workshop
Description
This workshop will be more of a playground rather than a sit and get. This full day workshop will help educators explore all the amazing elements that come in a Hummingbird Duo Robotics kit. After we explore we will begin to understand how we can use these sensors, motors, and parts to bring learning to life.
Once we will build a basic foundation through hands on mini challenges we will open up the floodgates to dive right into STEM, Makerspace, and Computer Science learning opportunities by creating a project we can take back to our classroom tomorrow!
Come ready to learn, make, tinker, design, and code. At the end of the day you will have what you need to get started in your learning space.
Goals
- Participants will be able to imagine and build creative circuits and designs.
- Participants will be able to build simple and effective programs using the various free coding platforms to meet the needs of schools.
- Participants will learn how to create and solve open ended design challenges using the Hummingbird Kit.
- Participants will explore how the Birdbrain resources and methodologies support learning outcomes in their classroom.
Agenda
Link to the agenda can be found here
Playlist of Learning for Workshop
Introduction to Scratch –https://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/hummingbirdduo/scratch/program/
Hummingbird Scratch Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPF7p1VM8NT_HUnp9dRFiHED4NWoWHRuB
Mechanism Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-OBlqqgMyg&list=PLPF7p1VM8NT_0GTUVw-XRCtiuPDUGx1PF
Prototyping Cards:
- Direct link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qcu1ki3x3w7rnfd/ComponentsQuickReference.pdf?dl=0
- Find these Prototyping Cards in the Robot Petting Zoo curriculum here: https://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/hummingbird/curriculum/project/robot-petting-zoo/
Hummingbird Coding Platforms Guide – https://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/hummingbirdduo/details/
Inspiration
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Blackout Poetry Project Demo via Twitter
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Twinkle Twinkle Litte Star via Twitter
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Revolutionary War Project via Twitter
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LED eyes in plastic toys via Twitter
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Robot Poetry via Twitter
Additional Ideas
- 068: Katie Henry of Birdbrain Technologies – Don’t Pick The Low Hanging Fruit! https://coffeeforthebrain.com/068/
- MakeCode Upgrade Kit https://store.birdbraintechnologies.com/collections/featured-items/products/hummingbird-duo-makecode-upgrade
- CSEd Week is from December 3-9!
- Program a Dance Party using the Finch Robot or Hummingbird Robotics Kit.
- MOre Hour of Code Activities https://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/hourofcode/
Research Articles
- Jennifer Cross, Emily Hamner, Chris Bartley and Illah Nourbakhsh, Arts & Bots: Application and Outcomes of a Secondary School Robotics Program, IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2015.
- Jennifer Cross and Emily Hamner, Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative Robotics, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2014.
- Emily Hamner and Jennifer Cross, Arts & Bots: Techniques for distributing a STEAM robotics program through K-12 classrooms, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), March, 2013.
- Jennifer Cross, Chris Bartley, Emily Hamner, and Illah Nourbakhsh, A visual robot-programming environment for multidisciplinary education, Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.445,452, 6-10 May 2013.
- Kimberley Gomez, Debra Bernstein, Jolene Zywica, and Emily Hamner, Building Technical Knowledge and Engagement in Robotics: An Examination of two Out-of-School Programs, B. Barker, G. Nugent, N. Grandgenett, & V. Adamchuk (Eds.), Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning (pp. 222-244), Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2012.
- Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, and Debra Bernstein, The Debugging Task: Evaluating a Robotics Design Workshop, AAAI Spring Symposium on Educational Robotics and Beyond: Design and Evaluation, March 2010.
- Debra Bernstein, Developing technological fluency through creative robotics (Doctoral dissertation), 2010.
- Tom Lauwers, Aligning Capabilities of Interactive Educational Tools to Learner Goals, Carnegie Mellon, April 2010. (Chapter 5)
- Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, Kristen Stubbs, Kevin Crowley, and Illah Nourbakhsh, Robot Diaries Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2008.
- Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Carl Francis DiSalvo, Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration, AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, March 2008.