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Middle School Experiments With Humanoid Robot
Students at Bullitt Lick Middle School will learn how to program the Nao robot, renamed KATE (Kentucky's Automated Technology Educator).
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Bullitt Lick Middle School in Shepherdsville, Ky., is offering a new robotics class that will teach students programming skills. The Kentucky Academy of Technology Education at Murray State University has lent the Nao robot to the school, and students in the class will work in groups to come up with an idea, create a storyboard of how the robot will move and talk, and program it using the the robot's software.
"They love it; they're really engaged with it," says Bullitt Lick teacher Shaun McIntosh. "It's hands-on, and they're learning and it's immediate feedback, which is really cool."
The academy, which trains teachers to work with technology, has renamed the robot Kentucky's Automated Technology Educator (KATE). The academy created the robotics pilot program to give schools an opportunity to test the robot's programming and determine whether they want to invest in the technology long-term.
The teams will show their projects to the rest of the school. "I want to make sure my students walk away with the fulfillment and knowledge that they need for working with robots because I think you're going to see that a lot more in the future personally," McIntosh says.
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