Making High Quality Robotics Education Widely Available: Valuable but Challenging

We are currently developing an online, distributed course in mobile autonomous robotics for high school students. The goal of the project is to greatly increase access to a version of the project-based Robotic Autonomy Course, which has been successfully taught during the last two summers at Carnegie Mellon’s West Coast campus. We’re attempting to make enough structure, help and motivational energy online, so that students can work with relatively light onsite coaching and supervision, with expert mentoring and evaluation of the students ’ work done from a distance