







Vol.1 , No. 2, Publication Date: Mar. 10, 2018, Page: 37-50
[1] | Lee Boehm, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA. |
[2] | Kellen Krammes, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA. |
[3] | Shawn Mathes, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA. |
[4] | Tyler Risinger, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA. |
[5] | Emma Romig, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA. |
[6] | Sridhar Ramachandran, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA. |
The focus of the research and development project discussed in this paper is to design, formalize, implement, and deliver a cost-effective, user oriented, useful and usable tool (called RoboTown) for easy use by middle school children and their teachers. The research team began with the goal of making a middle school student friendly research tool to seamlessly introduce the concepts of information systems to learners through robotics and electronics. The completed project includes a fully autonomous rover-style robot built using 3D printed material around an Arduino Mega microcontroller, along with a fully functional companion website that serves as the main source of the lessons and includes; instructional videos, interactive programming lessons, instructional resources, as well as links to download all the material for offline use in a computer laboratory.
Keywords
Information System, Informatics, Arduino, Robotics, Electronics
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