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The combination of project-based learning and educational robotics to solve real-world challenges can have an impact on the development of students’ self-efficacy, communication and collaboration skills. This paper presents a cross-generational project, which engages high school students in the development of different practical solutions for specific users’ problems and needs. The students take over the role of co-researchers within the frame of different out-of-school activities and are challenged to identify and solve complex problems. We present the project implementation process that integrates analysis, development and test phases. Also, the evaluation of the impact of the project regarding the involved students is reported in this work.
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The authors acknowledge the financial support by the Sparkling Science program, an initiative of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, under grant agreement no. SPA 06/294. We would also like to thank the students Paul Bernhard Mazzolini, Simon Appel, Christoph Kern, Yuming Miao and Vincent Schwartz for their exceptional engagement in the project.
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Jäggle, G. et al. (2020). Project-Based Learning Focused on Cross-Generational Challenges. In: Merdan, M., Lepuschitz, W., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26945-6_14
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