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Educational Features of Malaysian Robot Contest
Amir A. Shafie and Zalinda Baharum
Software and Intelligent System Development Program, Electronics and Computer Applications, SIRIM Berhad, Shah Alam, Selangorakramin@sirim.my
zalinda@sirim.my
Abstract. The educational experiences from robot contest of entry, junior and advance level are presented based on guided constructionism approach in education that combines hands on guidance with hands-on experience. The aim of the competition as a whole are to allow the student to (i) conceptualise the robot (ii) manage the non-deterministic characteristic of the environment and (iii) manage integrated hardware and software development projects. Indeed with this knowledge the student should be able to win a number of international robot tournaments.
LNAI 3020, p. 470 ff.
lncs@springer.de
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004