Creating an Educational Robotics Curriculum for the Mauritius Institute of Education

Kohli, Jatin; Parikh, Rahil; Jester, Zachary

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Creating an Educational Robotics Curriculum for the Mauritius Institute of Education

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As part of a major ongoing effort to renovate the nation’s curriculum, the Mauritius Institute of Education (M.I.E.) and the Ministry of Education in Mauritius are looking to include more hands-on learning of STEM concepts in their secondary school curriculum. Our project goal was to provide them with the online materials necessary to allow secondary school instructors to teach a pilot course in robotics and programming principles to their students (ages 12-15). We developed a curriculum with lessons and related projects. These were complete with a slide deck and teacher manual outlining the objectives, required materials, and procedures for each lesson/project pair. We hosted these resources on a Moodle site hosted by the M.I.E. for any Mauritian teacher to access, and we gathered feedback on our lessons as we developed them for both faculty at our university, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and faculty at the M.I.E. to ensure students would be challenged while enjoying the course. The development of this course is a small part of a massive STEM education revolution in Mauritius. These renovations will allow students to hopefully find a passion for engineering and open more doors for them in the future.

This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

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