{"id":512,"date":"2010-07-14T22:38:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T03:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2010-07-14T22:38:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T03:38:30","slug":"cs-news-cmu-using-robots-to-create-cs-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/cs-news-cmu-using-robots-to-create-cs-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"CS News &#8211; CMU Using Robots to Create CS Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/archive\/2010\/July\/july13_robotsinnovation.shtml\">CMU Using Robots to Create CS Majors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CMU is going to use the tremendous interest in robotics to get more students interested in Computer Science.\u00a0 Many of us at the high school level have been doing this for years.\u00a0 Students love working with robots due to the fact they can see the results of their ideas in action.\u00a0 Robots move and act out the solutions to the problems that students create.\u00a0 This is very engaging and exciting.\u00a0 Elementary, middle, and high school students find robotics very engaging.\u00a0 Using robotics also shows students another side of Computer Science that is very kinesthetic and social.\u00a0 Two things that are often lacking in typical Computer Science classes.<br \/>\nWay to go CMU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMU Using Robots to Create CS Majors CMU is going to use the tremendous interest in robotics to get more students interested in Computer Science.\u00a0 Many of us at the high school level have been doing this for years.\u00a0 Students love working with robots due to the fact they can see the results of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,13,19,6,20,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apluscompsci.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}