Toy Adaptation in Undergraduate Education and Outreach: An Initial Examination into Participant Experience and Perceptions (Work in Progress)

摘要

Service learning is a powerful educational method for delivering engineering curricula [1,2] while benefiting student retention, personal development, and community connections [3,4]. Furthermore, positive societal impact is especially important to underrepresented students in career selection [5, 6] and classes or projects with clear engineering-service components commonly attract a higher percentage of students from underrepresented groups [7, 8]. In this work-in-progress, we examine our initial efforts in implementing toy adaptation to enhance engineering education and to serve our broader community.