2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation K-12 Outreach Workshops

May 19–23, Atlanta, USA

After school workshops were held on Tuesday May 20th and Wednesday May 21st at ICRA 2025. Through these workshops we taught future roboticist and future members of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society by providing access to robotics education that lowers the barrier of entry for learning fundamental principals of robotics.  Students learned basic principals of engineering and robotics through a computer vision workshop, a drone workshop and we are excited to have had the opportunity to work with Georgia FIRST Robotics both to present a Lego robotics workshop and to participate in workshop learning experiences!  The classes were be taught on a section of the exhibit floor and students will had the opportunity to engage with robots, roboticists and students studying robotics who attended ICRA.

Participation

About 100 students from the local Atlanta area were able to participate.  If a group from your school or afterschool program are interested in participating in future events please contact thinquebytes.assist@gmail.com.

Workshop Schedule

4 - 4:30 PM Arrival

Arrival, check-in and interactive activity for the students. Transition to the Exhibit Floor

4:45 PM (15 mins) Introduction

Introduction, including agenda (5 mins), Pre-event survey (10 mins)

5:00 PM (30 mins) Activity

Convention Center Floor Engagement Activity with food, water and juice provided

5:30 PM (120 mins) Class Instruction

TUES: Invisibility Cloak introduction to fundamentals of computer vision and perception workshop

WED:  Students learn hands on robotics activity aligned with level including a drone activity (decision making / action) 

7:30 PM closing

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thinqueBytes® ICRA 2025 Volunteer Planning Team

Organizer:  ICRA K-12 Outreach Chair and thinqueBytes® founder Nia Jetter

Organizing Team Members

Challen Enninful (University of Michigan)

Maya Luster (Purdue University)

James Meadows (Overland AI)

Aravind Samba-Murthy (Walmart Advanced Systems & Robotics )

Michelle Warren (Georgia Power)

Georgia Tech Rotor Jackets Drone Activity:  Caden Perry, Dylan Wycoff, Ian Boraks and Lucas Trujilo

IEEE Educational Activities Board Liaison:  Nick Milton