Commentary: Industry, Education Needed to Bridge STEM Skills Gap

To operate robotic arms, students are required to know a small amount of coding. STEM Education Works has traveled to the Lafayette, Indiana, CoderDojo several times to teach students how to program the Dobot Magician robotic arms. The lessons involve real-world actions that make sense to young students. When using the visual programming language Blockly in May, students directed the robots to run bases in a mock baseball game. At Subaru of Indiana Automotive, the students programed the scaled-down robotic arms to write their names before learning about the larger, industrial robots, providing a real-world application for the activity they completed.