EAGER: A Gateway Drone for High School Students

EAGER：面向高中生的网关无人机

• 批准号: 1940970
• 负责人: Stefanie Tellex
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1940970&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Gateway; Drone; Students

The aim of this proposal is to broaden access to computer science and robotics education for high school students in the New England area, with a particular emphasis on students from underrepresented groups. This award will allow us to distribute 300 low-cost Raspberry Pi/Python autonomous drones to students; train teachers to teach an introductory robotics course to the students; and assess the impact of this program at attracting and retaining underrepresented groups to STEM. This project will have an impact on hundreds of high school students in the New England area. The investigators will have a close collaboration with two local high schools in the Providence area, the Providence Career and Technical Academy (PCTA) and the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (MET). In year 2, the investigators will recruit 14 more sites, with 20 students at each site for a total of 300 drones. This project will scale the drone program to more students, and pilot a model that can grow even more in the future.This project will test the hypothesis that distributing autonomous drone kits to high school students will increase the participation and retention of underrepresented groups in STEM. Providing a hands-on project that teaches students to build and fly an autonomous drone will increase the student's participation in technical fields, increase the rate of college enrollments, and provide essential skills. The investigators will use Brown's accessible open-source curriculum for autonomy education that emphasizes hands-on experience. The drone is equipped with a monocular camera and actuators, and performs all processing on board with a Raspberry Pi 3. As a result, the base station machine can be any computer with a web browser, so the program can run using a school's existing computing resources, without requiring software installation. This pilot project will enable hundreds of high school students to build drones.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该提案的目的是扩大新英格兰地区高中学生获得计算机科学和机器人教育的访问，特别强调来自代表性不足的群体的学生。该奖项将使我们能够向学生分发300个低成本覆盆子Pi/Python自动驾驶无人机；培训老师向学生教授机器人课程；并评估该计划在吸引和保留代表性不足的群体中的影响。该项目将对新英格兰地区的数百名高中学生产生影响。 调查人员将与普罗维登斯地区的两所当地高中，普罗维登斯职业学院（PCTA）以及大都会地区职业和技术中心（MET）进行密切合作。在第二年，调查人员将再招募14个站点，每个站点的20名学生共有300个无人机。 该项目将将无人机计划扩展到更多的学生，并试行将来可以增长的模型。该项目将测试以下假设：将自动无人机套件分配给高中生将增加STEM中代表性不足的群体的参与和保留。提供一个动手的项目，教会学生建造和飞行自动驾驶无人机将增加学生在技术领域的参与，提高大学入学率并提供基本技能。 调查人员将使用布朗可访问的开源课程进行强调动手体验的自治教育。该无人机配备了单眼相机和执行器，并使用Raspberry Pi 3执行所有处理。结果，基本电台机器可以是具有Web浏览器的任何计算机，因此该程序可以使用学校的现有计算资源运行，而无需软件安装。 该试点项目将使数百名高中学生能够建造无人机。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。