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                  Robotics K-12 -- This web site is designed to help K-12 
                  and other educators in developing or improving courses that 
                  use robotics as a tool for teaching STEM topics or as a topic 
                  in itself. The materials on this site include down-loadable 
                  lesson plans and links to other useful resources, such as teacher 
                  training workshops, public robotic contests, and other educational 
                  robotics web sites.  How 
                  Stuff Works -- Robots -- How robots work, how robotic 
                  surgery will work, how real trasformers work, how pleo works... The Alliance Robotics 
                  Project at NASA -- Robotic summer camps, Phoenix Mars 
                  updates, NSTA Web Seminars NASA Robotics Curriculum 
                  Clearinghouse --Peer-Reviewed Robotics Lesson Plans 
                  , Project Based Learning and STEM skills , Prepare for Robotics 
                  Competitions .Tekkotsu from Carnegie 
                  Mellon --Tekkotsu is an open source framework supporting 
                  software development for a variety of robotic platforms. Read 
                  an overview of the background and features.      |