PI: Bradley S Barker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor4-H Youth Development
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
114 Agricultural Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583-0700
Office: (402) 472-9008
Fax:(402) 472-9024
bbarker@unl.edu
Co-PI: Viacheslav I. Adamchuk, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate ProfessorBiological Systems Engineering Department
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
212 L.W. Chase Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583-0726
Office: (402) 472-8431
Fax:(402) 472-6338
vadamchuk2@unl.edu
Award Number ESI-0624591 and DRL-0833403
What's New
September Activites Posted - Year 1 and Year 2
Updated Year 1 activities and new Year 2 activities for September are posted! Helpers Guides for each activity are also posted. October's activities are coming soon.
Become a FIRST LEGO League Team
FIRST LEGO League is coming to Nebraska on January 30, 2010. To participate, you must sign up as a team before spaces fill in the middle of September.
For more information and to register, visit www.usfirst.org. Contact Kathy Morgan with questions: kmorgan3@unl.edu or 402-472-5027
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On Twitter, search for GEARTech21. On Facebook, search for GEAR-Tech-21.
2009 Summer Camps draw more participants than 2008
119 youth participated in Camp 1.0 and 48 youth in Camp 2.0. This was an increase over last year's total of 150 youth. Watch the Camp section for pictures and more!
About the Project
This three-year Nebraska 4-H project will develop, deploy and evaluate a comprehensive robotics educational intervention. Targeted at students in grades 7 — 9, the project will build upon an existing partnership between Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the 4-H Cooperative Curriculum System (4-H CCS) in the development of robotics curricula. The proposed project will extend this work to incorporate student activities and lessons from Carnegie Mellon&s Robotics Explorer 2.5 curriculum, as well as the development of new lessons focusing on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Satellites (GPS). The project will produce a student booklet that will serve as a road map to direct students through the existing curricula. A comprehensive leaders/parents booklet will also be developed to guide implementation of the robotics program in 4-H clubs. These materials will form the basis of a two-year comprehensive 4-H club program that includes over 120 contact hours per year and an intensive summer institute where students will experience how GIS and GPS are revolutionizing farming practices. 4-H clubs are an ideal setting for the robotics platform, and targeting the instruction to national science, technology and math standards reinforces what students are learning in school and contributes to their school success.
