Free registration to No Gender Gap courses is now open!

Free enrolment to No Gender Gap courses is now open!

Everyone can register here: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/L6NNLT

No gender Gap! is the KA2 project co-financed by the Erasmus + program and with the objectives of developing a methodology and an educational platform dedicated to girls and women in difficult situations to support their technical-scientific learning.

Partners of the project are the Spanish association Building Bridges (lead partner), School of Robotics, the German non-profit organization Weltgewandt, the Dutch International Labour Association, and the Portuguese company Previform.

The project website: https://www.yeseuropa.org/nogendergap

In August the platforms containing the STEM courses, and in particular educational robotics, were published. The courses are in English and in partners’ languages.

To access the platform in the Italian language here: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/L6NNLT

The page requires only the subscription with your email and confirm the subscription.

The course topics are listed below and include many exercises that can be done with a simple Arduino kit.

Course topics of No Gender Gap! here below

Module 1: Robotics

• History of Robotics
  What is a robot?
  What does robotics mean?
  Robotics everywhere?
  Robotics
  Robot(ics) and Genre: Where do we stand?
  Women in Science: Prehistory
  Women in Science: Ancient Times
  Women in Science: Middle Ages
  Quiz module 1
  Let’s discuss it!
  Topic Discussion

Module 2: Robotics Components

• What is electricity?
  What is voltage
  What is current
  What is resistance
  The law of Ohm
  What is the circuit?
  What is a short circuit?
  What is a soft circuit?
  Circuit elements
  Circuit elements
  Practical Activities – Soft Circuits
  Introduction
  LED and batteries
  Electrical connections
  Explanation of the circuit
  Practical Exercise (Scribbling Machine)
  Conclusions
  Test
  Quiz Module 2
  Women in Science: Electricity
  Let’s discuss it!

Module 3: Robotics Components I

• What is a controller? What does automatic control mean?
  What is an open loop system?
  Systems with feedback (closed loop)
  What is a sensor?
  What is a controller?
  What is a program?
  What does programming mean?
  What is an actuator?
  A lesson in mechanics
  Conclusions-2
  Test
  Quiz Module 3
  Women in Science: Electronics
  Women in Science: Robotics
  Let’s discuss it!

Module 4: Introduction to programming

• Scratch – Introduction
  Scratch – Sprites
  Design your mongoliferia!
  Draw your background environment
  Scratch – Entity
  Scratch – First program
  Scratch – Movements
  Scratch – Events
  Scratch – Properties
  Explore the properties of sprites
  Animations
  Scratch – iterations
  Gravity!
  Scratch – Conditions
  Assemble the whole
  Women in Science: Coding
  Women in Science: Coding – Ada Lovelace
  Let’s discuss it!

Module 5: Know the robotics kit and morse code

• Introduction to the lesson
  Let’s build the lamp – An introduction to Arduino
  Installing the program
  First setup
  Make Arduino communicate with Snap!
  Coding – Preliminary activity
  Proposed Exercises
  Coding – Telegraphy I
  Coding – Telegraphy II
  Let’s discuss it!