ResearchGuides: STEM Educators Guide: Robotics: Robotics Outreach Ideas

Outreach Ideas

Many robotics competitions award teams for using the STEM skills they have learned from robotics and applying them to solve real world problems. Some teams call these “outreach” programs, as they reach out into their community. That can include demonstrations of the team’s robot, hosting a STEM event for Scouts or the school community, or creating adaptive technology for people in need. Here are resources to some popular outreach programs and ideas.

(photo from NASA's Solar Oven classroom activity (grades 6-8)

Web Resources

REACH Challenge
An adaptive and assistive technology competition for middle school, high school, and college students. Includes an “Educators Toolkit” with curriculum on Adaptive Technology, User-Centered Design, Empathy, and more.
eNable
An Open Source community that creates and shares open source designs for assistive devices. It is known for creating the first 3D printable prosthetic hand and sharing the designs and code for
bioelectric limbs.
Girls Who Code
Aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science by equipping young women with the necessary computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.

LHL Books

Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities by Alan Foley; Denis K. Anson
Call Number: HV1569.5 .A77 2018
ISBN: 9781440835117

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