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Kids in grades K-8 can develop STEM skills with a series of four hands-on robotics workshops at the downtown Klamath County Library, led by an Oregon Tech assistant professor! The workshops will run from 3:30 pm to 5 pm on Mondays, from February 13th through March 13th. (Note there will be no workshop on February 20th, as the library will be closed for Presidents’ Day.)
Cecily Heiner, an assistant professor of computer science at Oregon Tech, will show participants how to program the Finch Robot – a slightly-larger-than-palm-size device that resembles a miniature waffle iron on wheels – to do tasks like drawing, navigation, music, “jousting” against other robots and more. We’ll have a different activity each week!
Registration required, but you can sign up for any (or all!) workshops with one registration. To sign up, visit the downtown library’s Youth Services desk or head to tinyurl.com/libraryRobotics2023 to fill out a brief survey.
Heiner teaches software engineering and data science at Oregon Tech. She has also trained hundreds of K12 teachers in computer-related education. She loves working on projects to help teachers and students learn computing, and her work has been supported by Microsoft, Google, and state and federal grants from the National Science Foundation. She has done several projects with Finch Robot creator Birdbrain Technologies – who generously provided a grant for this workshop series – and previously published a paper about her work with the Finch.