News

We're pleased that our workshop in June: Start Your Own Robotics Club: LEGO Mindstorms Programming for Absolute Beginners was so successful!
High School Students from Buena, Deptford, Glassboro, Millville, and Pitman who were on campus for the 2011 Rowan Sciences Day programmed an scribbler robot with IPRE fluke board to do a cool dance to that great country hit ... the Chicken Coop Shuffle! You can see the code they wrote in the Python Language with Myro extensions, or watch the video.
Congratulations to Dr. Kay for receiving a grant from Google as part of its CS4HS program to run a summer workshop for middle school teachers on robot programming. See also our flyer.
The Robot Hoedown & Rodeo at SIGCSE 2011 in March was a big success. Thanks again to our sponsors: The National Science Foundation and iRobot Corporation.

Watch a news report about the event on CBS 11 News in Dallas
Look at our photo gallery
View a pile of SIGCSE robot videos on youtube
Watch some videos uploaded by wranglers (people who brought robots) and ranch hands (participants) of individual demos

Publications

From Mad Libs to Tic Tac Toe: Using Robots and Game Programming as a Theme in an Introduction to Programming Course for Non-Majors
in Proceedings of the 22nd International FLAIRS Conference, May 2009.
Pushing Beyond Traditional School and Course Boundaries: High School and University Students Collaborate on an Interdisciplinary Project
Adrian Rusu, Amalia Rusu, Jennifer Kay, and Hong Zhang
Proceedings of FIE 2007: The Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, October 2007.
Getting Down & Dirty: Incorporating Homogeneous Transformations and Robot Kinematics into a Computer Science Robotics Class."
Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues, March 2007.
Two Lab Exercises for an Introductory Robotics Class
Jennifer Kay
AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible Hands-on AI and Robotics Education, March 2004.
Teaching Robotics from a Computer Science Perspective
Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 19, no. 2, December 2003.

Open Source Software and Computer Science Education
Keith O'Hara and Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 18, no. 3, Februrary, 2003.

Investigating Open Source Software and Educational Robotics
Keith O'Hara and Jennifer Kay
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 18, no. 3, Februrary, 2003

RULER cohosts the annual Rowan University First State FLL Qualifier.

Visit the Rowan FLL website at http://www.rowan.edu/~firstlego where you can find photos and videos of past events and related links.

A guide to LEGO Mindstorms NXT Resources
A Gentle Introduction to Homogeneous Transformations and Robot Kinematics (suitable for use in an Introduction to Robotics class)
Slides to accompany the Introduction to Homogeneous Transformations and Robot Kinematics document.
A selection of papers available on the web for use in an undergraduate introduction to Robotics course. (pretty dated)
LEGO Mindstorms RCX Patches

Step-by-step directions, blueprints, and a parts list to help you build your own walking robot can be found on the Crawler web page.

Please visit the RowanRobots Channel on YouTube.

Mkor Shalom Seniors programmed Shlomo the Robot to dance at a recent brown bag lunch. Watch the video, see Dr. Kay's slides, and learn more about the Klezmer music we used on the special Mkor Seniors Robots Page.

Please contact Jennifer Kay, kay@rowan.edu