The use of robotics for educational purposes has been pursued for a long time and has become a trend that continues to gain popularity each year. Several factors have contributed to such a situation, including the  availability of developmentally appropriate and less expensive robotics kits and individual components as well as the proliferation of robotics competitions for the pre-university levels. As a consequence, robotics started to be incorporated into classrooms and lessons and has become an educational tool for teaching concepts in a broad range of areas, from electricity and mechanics to programming, mathematics, physics, etc.

In this workshop, we aim at bringing together teachers, mentors, and students from schools, clubs, community centers, and educational institutions offering formal and informal educational robotics learning opportunities, to discuss their experiences and current practices using robotics. This workshop hopes to also provide a place to share relevant projects and discuss specific technical issues that may arise in different learning settings as well as the impact of robotics in education.