Science Education

Student Science Enrichment Program

Duke University
RoboCupJunior: Exhibitions of problem solving, teamwork, and creativity

Program

Quickfacts

RoboCupJunior provides a year-round, project-oriented, team-based academic enrichment program for 75 seventh-grade students over three years at Chewning Middle School in Durham. The objective of the program is to foster interest and competence in science, mathematics, and computers, while developing problem-solving skills, enabling creative thinking and design, and providing a domain for application of scientific concepts. RoboCupJunior is an educational initiative where teams of students build and program mobile robots to perform a variety of challenges. Students learn and apply the scientific, mathematical, and technological fundamentals behind the construction of robots and the design of control algorithms. Robotics-related research demonstrations at Duke supplement biweekly meetings with student mentors from Duke University. Students exhibit their work in competitions. The project participants will conduct a workshop for North Carolina teachers to disseminate tested instructional materials in 2006 and hold a RoboCupJunior regional exhibition the following year.

Program dates: school year

Open to: traditional seventh grade students at Chewning Middle School in Durham, North Carolina

Format: includes a week long summer camp, biweekly after school meetings, monthly weekend workshops at Duke University, and exhibitions of student work.

Contacts:
Jeffrey Forbes
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Department of Computer Science
Duke University
Box 90129
Durham, NC 27708-0129

Phone: 919/660-6550
Fax: 919/660-6519

Related Links:
Duke University
Duke University Department of Computer Science