BRINGING STEAM EDUCATION TO LIFE
Today’s educators have a mission to encourage students to begin thinking about careers in science and technology fields. Bringing Art MOTIVATE STUDENTS into STEM education has become a way to excite and motivate — students into these fields while also developing their problem-solving ENHANCE CREATIVITY and critical thinking skills. — Aldebaran Robotics has created a robotic competition, Robotic Idol, IMPROVE LEARNING which is geared towards 6 th -12 th grade students. Robotic Idol is a EFFECTIVENESS programming competition perfect for students of all skills levels. This — initiative will challenge student’s basic programming knowledge using FOSTERING TEAM NAO humanoid robot as they work in small teams to develop a series WORK of dance behaviors. Teams will be evaluated on the creativity, — development and execution of their programming. TEACH A JOB-CREATING FIELD — By joining Robotic Idol, students will be learning STEM from NAO, the HIGHER WOMEN STUDENT #1 humanoid platform named “The Best Robot in Education” by ENROLLEMENT Carnegie Mellon’s Robot Hall of Fame in 2012.
WHY STUDY A HUMANOID ROBOT?
MAJOR INNOVATION MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND ENGAGING ROBOT & JOB-CREATING FIELD PLATFORM FASCINATION — — —
After computers and the Internet, Computer sciences, mechanics, electronics, Humanoid robots have always fascinated Robotics is the next technological and control are already at the core of the people especially students with new revolution. With ageing population NAO platform. Our curriculum used in applications and incredible inventions. and labor shortage, humanoid robots conjunction with NAO allows students to Now technology has made a huge leap will be one of the solutions thanks to develop a structured approach to finding forward. Stemming from 6 years of research, their humanoid shape adaptation to a solutions and adapting a wide range of NAO is one of the most advanced world made for humans. Educate cross-sectional educational content. One humanoid robots ever created. He is fully students today using the NAO example is for the instructor to assign programmable, open and autonomous. platform for opportunities in robotics, students to program NAO to grasp an object In addition, Robotics and STEM education engineering, computer science and and lift it. The assigned task is immediately is critical in preparing secondary students technology. clear to students. Why might NAO have a for higher education. For example, having problem with the execution of the assigned a foundation in STEM concepts utilizing a task? What are the difficulties or obstacles robotics platform will enable students to that NAO is having? Students are naturally prepare for a future in engineering. motivated to find answers to these questions.
ADVANTAGES OF USING NAO U.S CUSTOMERS
FOR FOR SOME OF THE HIGH -SCHOOLS STUDENTS TEACHERS USING NAO — — —
> Hands-on experience by connecting theory > Projects or labs based • Alvarado ISD, TX with practice to discover a wide range approach for teaching Robotics • Phoenix Union SD, AZ of fields linked to robotics such as computer and Computer Science • Thatcher School, CA science, mechanics, electronics or control. • Central Tech Erie School, PA > Improvement of achievement > Inspiring a high level of motivation • Stratford High School, SC & learning effectiveness & interest for engineer careers. • St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, CA > Fostering team work, project management, > Increasing of female student • Leesburg High School, FL problem solving and communication skills. enrollment and student engagement • Memphis City Schools, TN • New Albany High School, IN TACTILE SENSORS MICROPHONES
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WHAT TEACHERS SAY ABOUT NAO WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT NAO — —
One of the things that amazes me most is We were so impressed with the NAO It brings a little more fun to studies. the draw that NAO has for students; Robots and curriculum that we are It allows us to go beyond theory it draws women and minorities that have including them in all of our new Kids and to apply our knowledge. ” never shown interest in programming Talk Radio Backpack Robotics’ or robotics to the table. Students are afterschool science programs. ” I can see and test directly what I did. asking teachers to teach them math Projects we are making become interactive as opposed to just having it forced and tangible. Running programs on robot is impressive. ” on them by the teacher. ” I discovered other ways to work than Mike Beiter Bob Barboza through computer. I would like to carry High School Computer Science teacher STEM to STEAM Projects Coordinator on in this field. ” At Central Career and Technical School in Erie, At Kids Talk Radio in Long Beach, California, Pennsylvania, USA. USA.
ROBOTIC IDOL SPECIFICATIONS
GENERAL RULES
Robotic Idol is a programming competition for students in grades 6-12. Each team will compete within their own group: Group A (grades 6-8) and Group B (grades 9-12). Students will work together in teams over the course of a few months to develop three dance behaviors for NAO, Aldebaran Robotics’ humanoid robot.
Students will have all the necessary tools to build, develop, and enhance their codes to make NAO dance. During a one-day tournament, teams will have their own robot perform to a musical routine potentially be selected by the judges and become the winner of Robotic Idol 2013. The objective of the competition is to enhance STEM education by bringing theory to life.
COMPETITION OUTLINE
WORK IN A TEAM AND SURPASS CONFRONT SCIENCE LAWS 80 SECONDS TO MAKE THE YOURSELF BY MAKING NAO DANCE DIFFERENCE — — —
Students like to compete and they like To make a humanoid robot, like Based on a point system, a jury to work as a team. Robotic Idol offers NAO, dance is quite a challenge. composed by STEM mentors and a unique opportunity for them to work By joining Robotic Idol, students robotics experts will evaluate the on their programming together to be will have to deal with math and dance behaviors programmed by each ready for the tournament. From the physics principles such as center team. The following items will be part summer camp to the competition, of gravity, kinematics, control, of the evaluation: respect of time, they will continuously work on the radians, and coordinates… fluidity of movements, synchronization robot they adopted. They will have to Using a fully-programmable with the music, and beauty of the agree on the choreography, the platform like NAO is also a choreography. Dances will also have a choice of the music and to solve tremendous opportunity to learn set of challenges to achieve such as: together any problem they will computer science and make NAO balance on one foot or encounter. mechatronics. make him stand up.
OUR VISION IMPORTANT DATES —
FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TEAMS To offer a revolutionary way to enhance — students learning STEM by bringing Art > Registration Deadline: TBD into Education in order to make America > Summer Camp: TBD the world leader of innovation again. > Competition Date: TBD Art, like dancing, is very similar to the
unlimited capacity of programming a FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TEAMS robot like NAO: it helps express your — creativity. ” > Registration Deadline: TBD > Summer Camp: TBD Cedric Vaudel > Competition Date: TBD Aldebaran Robotics, Los Angeles
*Other than acquiring NAO Robotic Idol Package
ROBOTIC IDOL PACKAGE
NAO H25 STEM CURRICULUM HUMANOID ROBOT (incl. battery and charger) AN INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS WITH NAO
NAO KEY FEATURES — Aligned to the Common Core State Standards Initiative Vision and audio: Text to speech, speech recognition, 10 modules with objectives, lessons face detection and recognition, plan and exercises object recognition, sound detection and localization Digital version coming with teacher’s book, student’ book and solutions to exercises (in programming files) Sensors: sonars, accelerometers, gyroscopes, FSR, MRE, motors, cameras… A STEM INTEGRATED PROJECT BASED APPROACH TO Natural motion reflexes: anti LEARNING ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE self-collision, resource — manager, fall manager, smart The STEM NAO-based curriculum offers a set of multiple lessons stiffness with hands-on experience by connecting theory with practice to discover a wide range of fields linked to robotics such as computer science, physics, mechanics or math.
CHOREGRAPHE Site License SUMMER CAMP VISUAL PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE MORE THAN 35 HOURS OF TRAINING
THANKS TO A STANDARD LIBRARY, YOU CAN CREATE TWELVE SESSIONS OF TRAINING WORKSHOP ON BEHAVIORS WITH A SIMPLE DRAG AND DROP OF BOXES! ROBOTICS AND PROGRAMMING WITH NAO — — Choregraphe enables thousands of students and teachers to develop Robotic Idol Summer Camp will be held in July 2013 and will be programs by simply moving boxes and links. Focus on your objectives comprised of several different half-day workshop sessions. During a and results rather than learn how to use our software. total of more than 35 hours, participants will be trained by Aldebaran Benefit from a user-friendly graphical interface to discover the key Robotics’ certified trainers. The last series of sessions will be dedicated concepts of programming or to explore various robotics research topics to a first rehearsal of Robotic Idol Competition. such as vision, motion or audio treatment.
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ROBOTS FOR A BETTER LIVING
Founded in 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier, with offices in France, China and the United States, Aldebaran Robotics has the ambitious goal of offer humanoid robots to the general public in the near future. Its first product, the NAO robot, is a 23-inch tall humanoid robot that is already a world-famous star in the Academic and Humanoid Robotics market since 2008.
Aldebaran Robotics has provided NAO robots to 800 of the most prestigious universities and schools in the world.
Regarding applications, especially for secondary education, we have been focusing our effort on the creation of a STEM Curriculum. In the field of healthcare we are working on applications to autism therapy. We keep in mind the main objective of the company: make a companion robot for general public. That’s why we have launched the NAO Developer Program, a community of programming users who aim to create the robotics applications of tomorrow.
We bring together more than 350 people, including 200 engineers and PhDs that are involved in the development and production of the robot. The mission of Aldebaran Robotics is to make robots that improve people’s lives.
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