Yasaman and her team have become the Hackathon for Education (
https://puebloscience.org/hackathon/) which took place today! They have developed a prototype that are supposed to be deployed in Guyana for science education!
Here is some text I copied from her email to me a while ago -
"The challenge of this hackathon was to build a robotics-based science activity kit for high school students in Guyana that:
- Clearly teaches one or more science or engineering concept(s) listed in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) syllabi.
- Can be taught, performed, and discussed by teachers and their students within two or three 90-minute instructional periods.
- Uses only materials that can be purchased or easily ordered in Guyana and in total cost less than $20 CAD per kit for re-useable kits or $5 CAD per kit for non-reuseable kits.
- Is hands-on and interactive (and fun!).
- Satisfies the definition of “robotics activity”.
"
Congratulations, Yasaman! We are so proud of you!
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque AhmedAssistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
Ph: +1 647 220 3482
Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed