I’m a teacher looking to take graduate level VEX courses to further my teaching license. The courses would have to give me graduate level credit from a college. They would preferably be online and be geared towards V5 or IQ as those are what we use at my school. I’m located in the Boston area so if they are in person they would have to be near there.
Has anyone heard of a class that fits with this? Thanks!!
The best chance you are going to have is
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They are part of a University but I don’t know enough about your requirements to understand if they meet them.
They run online programs, in person programs (in Pittsburgh).
I found this when researching but unfortunately it is just a certification and not an actual graduate class. Thanks though!
I’m not really sure what there is to teach using the V5 system at a graduate level, let alone using IQ. It’s just not the education range that the systems are optimized for. Control theory perhaps? But that could be done without using the VEX systems. The closest thing that comes to mind is the advanced electronics and control systems developed by VEXU teams QUEEN and GHOST this past year, but those primarily used external non-vex electronics and sensors.
I think OP is looking for a professional development type of class on the graduate level, that many school districts require teachers to regularly take to maintain their certificate.
I’d agree with @sazrocks that there is nothing V5 or IQ specific to teach on the gradate level, but those classes could be on any relevant topic.
If you want to learn about basic Principles of Engineering you can take any class based on software simulation or another mechanical prototyping system.
If you want to learn VEX tips or tricks, you best bet is to shadow an experienced team for a season as an assistant coach.
But if you want to learn something on the graduate level both to get teaching certificate credits and to provide the maximum benefit to your students, I would recommend taking a “Higher-Order Thinking for Educators” class, similar to this one:
EDUC 470W: Higher-Order Thinking for Educators
Presentation of strategies, techniques, and principles of higher-order thinking which are grounded in relevant research and practice will be presented. Develop critical- and creative-thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, and reflection skills. Become aware of ways to increase the higher-order thinking of children in the elementary classroom. Improve students’ ability to write critical thinking/reflection papers on educational problems and issues. (3 credits)
It is offered by many universities and will be very helpful for you for teaching students the principles of Engineering Design Cycle paradigm.
Last semester I took a graduate course on Neuromorphic and edge computing. Our team was able to use that to run an AI on the Jetson Nano that could detect Triballs and then our robots could navigate to them.
Overall it was semi accurate but did not perform well. But this class was a graduate level Computer Science/Engineering class.
I took a graduate course on Neuromorphic and edge computing. We used AI on a Jetson Nano to detect Triballs, enabling our robots to navigate to them. The performance was semi-accurate. It was a graduate-level CS/Engineering class. 