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In this paper we present our experience in organizing a robotic summer camp for pupils from 9 to 15 years old. During the camp, participants had to solve a number of robot construction and programming tasks, designed in a way that encouraged them to develop their creative thinking and problem solving skills, like creating a robot from a pre-defined set of LEGO pieces or building a faster paper plane launcher by using a gear transmission system. The results of the conducted survey showed that, even though pupils presented a solid level of creativity and problem solving skills, most of them found the lessons that fostered creative thinking and problem solving skills to be quite challenging.
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This work has been supported in part by Croatian Science Foundation under the project UIP-2017-05-5917, University of Zagreb and Croatian robotic association.
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Sovic Krzic, A., Puskar, L., Jagust, T. (2020). Promoting Creative Thinking and Problem Solving Through Robotic Summer Camp. In: Moro, M., Alimisis, D., Iocchi, L. (eds) Educational Robotics in the Context of the Maker Movement. Edurobotics 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 946. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18141-3_18
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