Increasing participation from underrepresented minorities in STEM through robotics clubs

Abstract

This paper describes our team's efforts in designing and establishing after-school robotics clubs throughout the San Antonio area in order to increase Hispanic participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. We discuss our model of informal learning environments for motivating minority children from linguistically and culturally diverse populations as well as the implementation plan used for partnering with schools to start after-school robotics clubs.