About Dr. David Mutchler

Dr. David Mutchler received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1986, working in Artificial Intelligence.  He has over 40 years’ experience teaching computer science and software engineering to undergraduate and graduate students, the last 29 years at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  He has led K-12 students in robotics activities for the past 25 years, including First Lego League, Jr. Botball and Botball.  His Botball teams have included all-girls and mixed-gender teams.  He has taken those teams 19 times to the International Botball Tournament at the Global Conference on Educational Robotics, where they have won the Spirit of Botball award three times.  He taught Robotics Programming to K-12 teachers in five workshops in the fall of 2023.

Workshop Description: Category I: K-12 teachers will learn how to program robots and how to teach robotics programming to their K-12 students. Teachers will do all their programming on a concrete robot, like iRobot’s Root and Create robots, and they will take their robot home with them to continue their learning and to teach robotics programming to their students.