NDLI: Using App Inventor and LEGO mindstorm NXT in a summer camp to attract high school girls to computing fields

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	AlHumoud, S. Al-Khalifa, H.S. Al-Razgan, M. Alfaries, A.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Inf. Technol. Dept., King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Al-Khalifa, H.S.; Al-Razgan, M.; Alfaries, A.) \|\| Comput. Sci. Dept., Al-Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AlHumoud, S.)
Abstract	With the ever-increasing role played by technological innovations in countries' development and economic growth, governments and educational institutes are keen to encourage and promote computing and engineering education among its young generations. In a developing country such as Saudi Arabia, we observed a certain knowledge gap in truly comprehending the true essence of computing as a science field. High school computing curriculum mainly tackles training students to use various applications and shallow programming instructions. Consequently, we observed that many college freshmen students chose the computing field (or avoid it) based on the misconception that it is mainly about dealing with Office applications or `fixing computers'. To change this misconception and attract students who are in a critical phase of choosing their future path and inform them off why they should consider computing as an option, we organized a two weeks summer camp. The summer camp focused on two interesting topics among teenagers, namely: mobile technologies and robotics. Accordingly, this paper presents an experience report describing our approach and evaluation from teaching a summer camp for high school girls using App Inventor and LEGO Mindstorm NXT.
Sponsorship	IEEE Educ. Soc.
Starting Page	173
Ending Page	177
File Size	1334888
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479931910
ISSN	21659567
DOI	10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826086
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-04-03
Publisher Place	Turkey
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Attracting High School Girls Engineering Education App Inventor Games Summer Camp Outreach Educational institutions Mobile communication Robot sensing systems LEGO mindstorm NXT Programming profession Android
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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