W2L101-A: Intro to Project Management using Robotics

Skills like computational thinking, problem-solving, handling complexity, team-work, and project management are essential for future careers and need to teach students at the elementary level itself. Using Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics education kit. We describe our learning environment consisting of lessons, worksheets, hands-on activities, and assessments. We teach students how to design, construct, and program robots using components such as motors, sensors, wheels, axles, beams, connectors, and gears. Students also gained knowledge on basic programming constructs such as control flow, loops, branches, and conditions using a visual programming environment. We carefully observed how students performed various tasks and solved problems. We present experimental results which demonstrate that our teaching methodology consisting of both the course content and pedagogy was effective in imparting.