GCER Call for Papers

The goal of the conference sessions is to provide an opportunity to share ideas on the topics listed below. We encourage original thinking on topics as detailed as technical innovations and as broad as ethics and robotics.

To submit a paper, you will need to create an account at our paper submission site and upload your paper online.

Papers can be accepted for the conference in one of three ways:

  1. For publication in the conference proceedings and to be given as a talk during the conference
  2. For publication in the conference proceedings and to be displayed as a poster during the Autonomous Robot Showcase
  3. For publication in the conference proceedings only (at least one of the authors must be registered for the conference)

Final determination as to how papers are accepted will be made by the program committee. If you would prefer to have your paper considered for the conference proceedings only or as a poster at the showcase, please make that indication in the body of your email submission.


Review Criteria

Papers will be reviewed for originality, clarity, and relevance to educational robotics.

Possible content areas for papers:

Content areas for all audiences include, but are not limited to:

  • Robotics technology for future kits
  • Applications of science, technology, engineering and math to robotics
  • Innovations with a robotics kit
  • How I used math in robotics
  • How I used science in robotics
  • Science and/or math experiments with a robotics kit
  • Project management/team development
  • General robotics topics, such as assistive robotics and household robotics
  • Ethics and robotics
  • Technical papers (might include color tracking technology, programming topics, CBC technology, etc.)
  • Best practices in robotics competition

Content areas for educators include, but are not limited to:

  • The link between robotics and programming education
  • Undergraduate robotics courses
  • Robotics education assessment
  • Curriculum and lesson plans that utilize kit parts or concepts relevant to robotics education
  • Robotics and state standards
  • Attracting more girls and underrepresented populations to engineering and technology
  • Best practices in robotics education (organization of team, organization of equipment, planning, funding, involving administration and parents, team leadership, team meetings, etc.)
  • Robotics courses (design, implementation and national/state standards)
  • Non-competition uses for a robotics kit
  • Project management/team development
  • Overcoming challenging elements in team management
  • Techniques for ensuring participation from all team members
  • Creative fundraising ideas for your robotics team/club

Miscellaneous topics:

  • Robotics clubs
  • Robotics partnerships with universities
  • Summer robotics programs
  • Robotics booster clubs

Guidelines for Submissions:

Deadline for papers: Noon on June 2, 2010

Notification of accepted papers: June 11, 2010

  • Review the “example paper” at the bottom of this page for important information about paper submission.
  • Submit your description online using the form below.
  • ***No paper submissions will be accepted via fax***
  • If you do not wish to present your paper as a talk at GCER, but would prefer to present it as a poster at the showcase, please indicate that in the body of your email submission
  • Notification of receipt will be emailed to the first (or designated) author soon after receipt
  • If members of the program committee require edits in order for your paper to be accepted, you will have until June 16th to submit the changes. Edited papers not returned before this date cannot be accepted for GCER.

If you paper is accepted, authors must verify that they hold the copyright to all contents of the submission and grant KIPR free and unlimited rights to print and distribute their paper in electronic and print format. Proceedings will be published as a CD, which will be available at the conference.


Format

All papers must meet the following formatting criteria:

  • 6 or fewer pages
  • Submit in .pdf format (.doc [MS Word] and .rtf formats will only be accepted if submitter has received approval from KISS Institute in advance)
  • Times New Roman font
  • 12 point type
  • 1” margins
  • Please do not number pages!!
  • Photographs and diagrams are encouraged and should be embedded in the text
  • Author information must appear in the top left corner of the paper in this format:
    • First Line- title of paper
    • Second Line- author name(s)
    • Third Line- affiliation of author(s): school name for all and email address for submitters over the age of 18
  • The title should appear again below the author information, in bold, centered
  • Proper citation of sources required
  • Quicktime or MPEG videos, not to exceed 10 megabytes, may be submitted as supporting material for the paper

Example Paper

Download the example paper

Paper Submission

To submit a paper, you will need to create an account at our paper submission site and upload your paper online.

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