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Power Puppet: Science and Technology Education through Puppet Building

June 20, 2014 | Public Programs

In this paper, we describe our approach to designing electronic puppet-building workshops for middle to early high school students. Power Puppet uses traditional puppet building materials - paper and cloth as the main resources, together with simple circuits elements such as LED’s, batteries and magnets. We document our process of designing puppet-building workshops that include STEM education criteria. We collaborated with the Center for Puppetry Arts to design these workshops in such a way that part of the making will include basic electronic input and output components. We aim to open this tradition up for larger audiences to enhance hardware CS education in STEM fields.

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  • Firaz Peer
    Author
    Georgia Institute of Technology
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    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Crystal Eng
    Author
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Citation

    Publication Name: Proceedings of the IDC '14 (June 17-20, Aarhus, DK)
    Page Number: 221-224

    Funders

    NSF
    Funding Program: AISL
    Award Number: 1612686
    Resource Type: Reference Materials
    Discipline: Art, music, and theater | Computing and information science
    Audience: Middle School Children (11-13) | Youth/Teen (up to 17)
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Making and Tinkering Programs | Theater Programs

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