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Doctoral  Dissertations

  • ​Cross, J. (2017). Creative Robotic Systems for Talent-Based Learning (Doctoral dissertation). Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-17-30. Pittsburgh, PA: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Lauwers, T. (2010). Aligning Capabilities of Interactive Educational Tools to Learner Goals (Doctoral dissertation). Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-10-09. Pittsburgh, PA: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • ​Bernstein, D.L. (2010). Developing technological fluency through creative robotics (Doctoral dissertation). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh.

Book  Chapters  &  Technical  Reports

  • Gomez, K., Bernstein, D., Zywica, J., & Hamner, E. (2012). Building Technical Knowledge and Engagement in Robotics: An Examination of two Out-of-School Programs. B. Barker, G. Nugent, N. Grandgenett, & V. Adamchuk (Eds.), Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning (pp. 222-244). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.​
  • ​Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., Bernstein, D., Stubbs, K., Crowley, K., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2008, May). Robot Diaries Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls. Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-08-25. Pittsburgh, PA: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.

Conference  papers,   presentations, and workshops

2017
  • Cross, J. L., Hamner, E., Zito, L., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2017). Student Outcomes from the Evaluation of a Transdisciplinary Middle School Robotics Program. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, IN.  
2016
  • Cross, J., Hamner, E., Zito, L., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2016). Engineering and Computational Thinking Talent in Middle School Students: a Framework for Defining and Recognizing Student Affinities. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, PA.
  • Hamner, E., Zito, L., Cross, J., Slezak, B., Mellon, S., Harapko, H., & Welter, M. (2016). Utilizing Engineering to Teach Non-Technical Disciplines : Case Studies of Robotics within Middle School English and Health Classes. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, PA.
  • Cross, J., Hamner, E., Zito, L., Nourbakhsh, I., & Bernstein, D. (2016). Development of an Assessment for Measuring Middle School Student Attitudes towards Robotics Activities. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, PA.
  • Hamner, E., Cross, J., Zito, L., Bernstein, D., & Mutch-Jones, K. (2016). Training Teachers to Integrate Engineering into Non- Technical Middle School Curriculum. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Erie, PA.
  • Bernstein, D., Mutch-Jones, K., Cassidy, M., Hamner, E., & Cross, J. (2016). Robots and Romeo and Juliet: Studying Teacher Integration of Robotics into Middle School Curricula. In 2016 International Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.
2015
  • Cross, J. L., Hamner, E., Bartley, C., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2015). Arts & Bots: Application and Outcomes of a Secondary School Robotics Program. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), El Paso, TX.
2014
  • Cross, J., & Hamner, E. (2014). Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative Robotics. In Proceedings in the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.
2013
  • Cross, J., Bartley, C., Hamner, E., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2013). A Visual Robot-Programming Environment for Multidisciplinary Education. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 445-452), Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Hamner, E., & Cross, J. (2013, March). Arts & Bots: Techniques for distributing a STEAM robotics program through K-12 classrooms. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Princeton, NJ.
2010
  • Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., & Bernstein, D. (2010, March).  The debugging task: Evaluating a robotics design workshop. In Proceedings of the 2010 AAAI Spring Symposium: Educational Robotics and Beyond, Stanford, CA.
2008
  • Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., Bernstein, D., Nourbakhsh, I. R., & DiSalvo, C. F. (2008, March). Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration. In Proceedings of the 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium: Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, Stanford, CA.
2007
  • Nourbakhsh, I. R., DiSalvo, C. F., Hamner, E., Lauwers, T., & Bernstein, D. (2007). Robot Diaries: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Design and Evaluate Educational Robotics. In Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium: Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, Stanford, CA.
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This material is based upon work supported by the NSF Broadening Participation in Computing program under Grant No. (0940412), and the NSF Math and Science Partnership program under Grant No. (1321227).  ​Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or other funding organizations.
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