Workshop Description: The goal of this workshop is to set up opportunities for students in coding.  Students in your classrooms need to develop a mindset towards coding opportunities, engage with mentors, and have fun. This workshop is set up to get classroom teachers a drone, learn to program it with a hands-on workshop, give the classroom teachers some project, and then connect with them with Rose-Hulman college students that can help serve as mentors to their students.  When possible, Rose-Hulman students will come out to your classroom in person to work with students and the drone(s).

About Dr. David Fisher

Dr. David Fisher specializes in robotics, smartphone, and web application development, mobile computing, and software engineering. He has brought back experiences from sabbaticals at Google and Apple to give students the skills to succeed in today’s high-tech world. Dr. Fisher, a Rose-Hulman alumnus, was a finalist for the Indiana tech community’s Tech Educator of the Year Award in 2016 and a Fulbright Scholar in 2018-19. Besides his innovative teachings, he also co-directs the institute’s robotics minor program and is working to make programming materials available to K-8 classrooms online through the ConnectingWithCode.org (https://connectingwithcode.org/) project.