The Engineering Ed project: dealing with failure and the robotic future – engaging students in multidisciplinary STEM learning (open access)

By Michael Oh, Finley Lawson

Issue 376 | Page 51 | Published Apr 2020

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A robotics workshop can provide a multidisciplinary context for examining the power and limitations of science for secondary school students within a 'big questions' framework.

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