Philipp, N. H., & Winzer, R., & McKay, B. K. (2024, June), STEAM Outreach Incorporating K-12 Teachers and Youth Robotics Workshops  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/47993

\bibitem{asee_peer_47993}
  Philipp, N. H., \& Winzer, R., \& McKay, B. K. (2024, June), \emph{STEAM Outreach Incorporating K-12 Teachers and Youth Robotics Workshops}
  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
  https://peer.asee.org/47993

Norman Henry Philipp P.E., Ed.S., Randy Winzer, and Byron Keith McKay.  "STEAM Outreach Incorporating K-12 Teachers and Youth Robotics Workshops".  2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/47993 Internet.  30 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_47993}
  Norman Henry Philipp P.E., Ed.S., Randy Winzer, and Byron Keith McKay.
  "STEAM Outreach Incorporating K-12 Teachers and Youth Robotics Workshops".
  \emph{2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/47993 Internet.  30 Jul, 2024

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AB  - This paper reviews the ongoing Adventures in Robotics (AIR) Program’s Summer Youth Workshops and the associated AIR Teacher Workshop at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS).  The summer youth workshops consist of two, week-long sessions providing hands-on STEAM-related activities on the topics of programming, teamwork, brainstorming, robotic basics, and construction techniques (including an age-appropriate introduction to mechatronics).  These workshops have been ongoing for 20+ years and provide a STEAM alternative to athletics-related summer camp options in the southeast Kansas region for students 9-13 years of age. 

The AIR Teacher Workshop was developed and implemented in 2022 with the support of a sub-award from the Kansas NASA Space Grant Consortium. In the 11-day teacher workshop, area K-12 teachers work with the LEGO Education SPIKE Prime set, a STEAM learning tool designed for grades 6-8, which combines Lego with easy-to-use hardware and a drag-and-drop programming language based on Scratch. 

Teachers received hands-on training in a one-day boot camp at the start of the Workshop to familiarize them with the LEGO SPIKE system.  Teacher Participants then assisted through the two, week-long summer youth workshops, gaining hands-on teaching experience by mentoring teams of students.  This provided a unique hands-on training environment for the teachers, simulating utilization of the AIR workshop materials and LEGO SPIKE system in a classroom environment. 

Continued work towards the development of a mobile roadshow version of the AIR workshops will also be presented, as will metrics on student demographics and STEAM topic exposure. The roadshow concept, whereby a subset of the week-long summer program is presented in a four to six-hour format was beta-tested in October of 2022.  The intent of the roadshow is to bring robotics educational opportunities to under-represented and economically limited communities. The authors continue to seek funding to implement the concept fully. 
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