This project established a robotics club at the Harry Fultz Institute Technical High School in Tirana, Albania. We worked with a group of 24 enthusiastic students, divided into six teams, each directed by a student mentor. Employing a strategy of self-directed learning, we helped the teams design and build low-cost robots, culminating in an official presentation to the school. We assessed outcomes by documenting participant perceptions of the educational activities. Student participants reported that they valued the experience and that they would continue to engage in robotics activities after we left the country. We recommend that the Harry Fultz Institute continue the robotics club, and that other Albanian schools begin their own robotics programs.

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Creator

• Hunt, William Daniel
• McQuaid, Ryan Patrick
• Sussman, Jacob Aaron
• Tomko, Elizabeth Marie

Subject

• Learning
• Industry

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121814-073237

Keyword

• Robotics
• Engineering--Study and teaching
• Education, Secondary

Advisor

• Christopher, Peter R.

Year

• 2014

Center

• Tirana, Albania Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Harry Fultz Technical High School, Tirana

Date created

• 2014-12-18

Location

• Tirana

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright