Primary school's programming courses for children are made up of software courses and hardware courses. In the six semester, after summing up the teaching results, we found that the cultivation of computer thinking for primary school students, interest in training, could begin from elementary school. In the course of the lecture, there are many real-life knowledge: RFID cards, radar ranging, smart street lights, intelligent traffic lights, remote control, game programming, etc. While playing, I learned basic physics and mathematics, and learned computer programming knowledge. This paper summarizes the contents of the course and sorts out a set of courseware and experiment contents that are suitable for primary school students to develop computer programming. Read More
In the last few years there has been a call for including capacities and competencies of engineers at both undergraduate institutions and in outreach programs aimed at attracting and recruiting students into the so called science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. This call results from a decreasing number of students interested in this type of careers worldwide. Instructional style and misconceptions, or even lack of information, of the activities involved in STEM related jobs might be main factors contributing people's reduced interested in pursuing studies in engineering.
Minority students and those of low socio-economic status are underrepresented in the engineering field. Early exposure to the engineering field may improve the chances that these types of students will consider pursuing academic studies and career placements in this field. Now in its fourth year, Drexel University, College of Engineering hosts elementary through high school aged students in the gifted program at. Students tour engineering labs, hear from current college students, watch demonstrations, and engage in small group activities that focus on engineering concepts like robotics, circuits, and human centered design. Through mostly qualitative and some quantitative data, the outcomes of this mutually beneficial relationship between a college and local public schools, especially targeting underrepresented minority students, indicate that pre-college students have benefited from these visits in a multitude of ways. Click Here
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