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Botball is a middle and high school robotics education program with a focus on coding and software development skills along with the application of the engineering design process. Botball is used in hundreds of schools throughout the world. This paper discusses some of the differences and similarities of student teams based on their culture, robotics and software experience, gender and time on task. Some of these factors correlate to student interest in STEM careers while other correlate to the performance of the team.
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Miller, D.P., Goodgame, S., Koppensteiner, G., Yong, M. (2015). Some Effects of Culture, Gender and Time on Task of Student Teams Participating in the Botball Educational Robotics Program. In: Kim, JH., Yang, W., Jo, J., Sincak, P., Myung, H. (eds) Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 3. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16841-8_49
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