What do Undergraduate Engineering Students and Pre-service Teachers Learn by Collaborating and Teaching Engineering and Coding Through Robotics?

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where he was also a research assistant professor. Dr. Kaipa's research interests include biologically inspired robotics, human-robot collaboration, embodied cognition, and swarm intelligence. Dr. Kaipa is a member of ASME and IEEE. Mr. Samuel J Sacks, Norfolk Public SchoolsAfter graduating from Virginia Tech with a BS in Sociology and Political Science in 2014, Mr. Sacks continued his education through Old Dominion University's K-6 teacher education masters program. Mr. Sacks is currently teaching 4th grade social studies at the Academy for Discovery at Lakewood in Norfolk, Virginia. He lives with his girlfriend, Hillary, and their cat, Snuggles.

The First Year of an Undergraduate Service Learning Partnership to Enhance Engineering Education and Elementary Pre-Service Teacher Education

“…Preliminary results [7,8] suggest that the instruments developed for collaborations 1 (engineering design process) and 3 (computational thinking) may not be sensitive enough to detect changes in content knowledge. Therefore, additional research is being implemented to improve those assessments.…”