Initiatives and Development of Secondary School Robotics Education in Camarin High School

Authors
Jeffrey Rivera Galino1, 2, Hideyuki Tanaka2, *
1Camarin High School, Address Cadena de Amor Street, Area B, Camarin Caloocan City, Philippines
2Graduate School of Humanity and Social Science, Hiroshima University, Address 1-1-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima City, Hiroshima 739-8524, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Hideyuki Tanaka
Received 13 November 2020, Accepted 23 April 2021, Available Online 31 May 2021.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.210521.014
Keywords
Robotics education; STEM education; robotics club
Abstract
Camarin High School is one of the schools in the Philippines that is making an initiative in improving Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education through robotics education. In this paper, the authors report the development of a robotics program for students in junior high school. Through the Teacher Training Program of the Japanese Government for international teachers, localized challenges were identified, and advances in technology education were examined for consideration. This paper informs how the teacher-in-charge (the first author) grasps the problems in Camarin High School and tries to improve robotics education by using available simple materials. Focuses are on basics in robotics education for secondary school, step-by-step education in project learning, and low-cost devices. It is hoped to provide useful insights to both practitioners of robotics education and initiators in a similar situation.
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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