title: Animatronics Workshop: a theater + engineering collaboration at a high school.
abstract: The Animatronics Workshop is a learning experience in which kids conceive and construct a robotic show. They write the story, build the robotic mechanisms and the set, perform voice acting, and create the motion tracks. This provides a deep cross-disciplinary experience, teaching participants how to think creatively across traditional areas of expertise. In an intensive three-day prototype workshop in summer 2013, 14 high school students created a three-character show.
authors.forename: Jennifer Ginger
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Alford
authors.forename: Lucas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jacob
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dietz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001154:Art; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012371:Robotics / Q000193:education*; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students; D013781:Texas