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Kits let kids add science, engineering, math to art explorations

During two decades of designing high-tech tools to encourage children’s creativity, Mitchel Resnick has found robots disappointing in one respect: They rarely appeal to girls or to kids unexcited by science.

”Lots of kids like to play with robots, but not all kids," says Resnick, an associate professor of learning research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That observation got him and fellow researchers in MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten project to imagine ”something with an artistic twist that would engage a wider range of kids than just classical robots."

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Globe Correspondent

Full Story: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/05/22/kits_let_kids_add_science_engineering_math_to_art_explorations/

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