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In this paper we present the findings of our survey that deals with the effects of a program to promote robotics in education in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The state sponsors participating schools with LEGO® NXT/EV3 robot sets and the entry fee for the robotics contest FIRST® LEGO® League. In return, participating schools have to partake in the contest and develop a sustainable concept for the implementation of robotics in education. We briefly describe the program as well as the contest and, afterwards, present the research results followed by a discussion of the findings, showing that this type of promotion program is an effective tool to bring robotics into the classroom.
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It is the name of a state program to enhance media competence among students.
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Breuch, B., Fislake, M. (2019). Bringing Educational Robotics into the Classroom. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_11
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