Sun 4 Nov 2018 11:28 - 11:31 at Beacon Hill - Empowerment & Broadening Participation

We present a novel way to program wireless networked educational robots. RoboScape is a new service that we added to NetsBlox, a collaborative, blocks-based programming environment based on Snap! NetsBlox provides simple abstractions to create distributed programs. RoboScape uses these abstractions, Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and message passing, to program the robot. The program runs in the browser and not on the robot. It remotely controls the robots with RPCs and the robot provides sensor values by sending messages back. This approaches makes programming robots as easy as programming sprites.

Sun 4 Nov

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

11:00 - 12:00
Empowerment & Broadening ParticipationBLOCKS+ at Beacon Hill
11:00
10m
Talk
Broadening Participation in Computer Science through Block Programming
BLOCKS+
Beryl Hoffman Elms College, Ralph Morelli Trinity College, Jennifer Rosato College of St. Scholastica
Pre-print
11:10
10m
Talk
Reducing the Barriers for Computational Action: How Blocks-Based Programming Can Support Digital Empowerment
BLOCKS+
Mike Tissenbaum University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, Josh Sheldon MIT App Inventor, Hal Abelson MIT
Pre-print
11:20
8m
Other
Themed Session 2: Whole-group discussions
BLOCKS+

11:28
3m
Talk
Educational Robotics with a Twist
BLOCKS+
Hamid Zare Graduate Student, Miklos Maroti Associate Professor, Akos Ledeczi Vanderbilt University
Pre-print
11:31
3m
Talk
A Blocks-Based Approach to Internet of Things in MIT App Inventor
BLOCKS+
Wen Xi Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Evan W Patton Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pre-print
11:34
3m
Talk
DevTech Lab - KIBO and ScratchJr Demo
BLOCKS+
Catherine Cowell Tufts University, Hannah Riehl Tufts University, Marina Umaschi Bers Tufts University
Pre-print
11:37
3m
Talk
CloudDB in MIT App Inventor
BLOCKS+
11:40
20m
Other
Themed Session 2: Breakout discussions and demos/posters
BLOCKS+