📄 Piloting Diversity and Inclusion Workshops in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Children

A. Badillo-Perez, D. Badillo-Perez, D. Coyotzi-Molina, D. Cruz, R. Montenegro, L. Vazquez and M. Xochicale

Abstract

In this paper, we present preliminary work from a pilot workshop that aimed to promote diversity and inclusion for fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Children (air4children) in the context of developing countries. Considering the scarcity of funding and the little to none availability of specialised professionals to teach AI and robotics in developing countries, we present resources based on free open-source hardware and software, open educational resources, and alternative education programs. That said, the contribution of this work is the pilot workshop of four lessons that promote diversity and inclusion on teaching AI and Robotics for children to a small gender-balanced sample of 14 children of an average age of 7.64 years old. We conclude that participant, instructors, coordinators and parents engaged well in the pilot workshop noting the various challenges of having the right resources for the workshops in developing countries and posing future work.

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Badillo-Perez, Antonio, Donato Badillo-Perez, Diego Coyotzi-Molina, Dago Cruz, Rocio Montenegro, Leticia Vazquez, and Miguel Xochicale. "Piloting Diversity and Inclusion Workshops in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Children." arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03204 (2022). https://github.com/air4children/hri2022

BibTeX to cite

@misc{abadilloperez2022_DEI_HRI2022,
    title={
        Piloting Diversity and Inclusion Workshops in 
        Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Children
        }, 
    author={
        Badillo-Perez, Antonio and 
	Badillo-Perez, Donato and 
	Coyotzi-Molina, Diego and 
	Cruz, Dago and 
	Montenegro, Rocio and 
	Vazquez, Leticia and 
	Xochicale, Miguel
        },
      year={2022},
      eprint={2203.03204},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.RO}
      url = {https://github.com/air4children/hri2022},
      series = {HRI '22}
}

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