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生接受计算机科学和机器人技术教育的机会，特别是来自代表性不足群体的学生。该奖项将使我们能够向学生分发 300 架低成本 Raspberry Pi/Python 自主无人机；培训教师向学生教授机器人入门课程；并评估该计划在吸引和留住代表性不足的群体参与 STEM 方面的影响。该项目将对新英格兰地区数百名高中生产生影响。 调查人员将与普罗维登斯地区的两所当地高中——普罗维登斯职业和技术学院（PCTA）和大都会地区职业和技术中心（MET）密切合作。第二年，调查人员将再招募 14 个地点，每个地点 20 名学生，总共 300 架无人机。 该项目将把无人机项目扩展到更多的学生，并试点一种在未来可以进一步发展的模型。该项目将测试这样的假设：向高中生分发自主无人机套件将增加 STEM 中代表性不足群体的参与度和保留率。提供一个教学生建造和驾驶自主无人机的实践项目将增加学生对技术领域的参与，提高大学入学率并提供基本技能。 研究人员将使用布朗的开放源代码课程进行自主教育，强调实践经验。该无人机配备了单目摄像头和执行器，并通过Raspberry Pi 3在机上执行所有处理。因此，基站机可以是任何具有网络浏览器的计算机，因此程序可以使用学校现有的计算来运行资源，无需安装软件。 该试点项目将使数百名高中生能够制造无人机。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。