Multiple open engineering positions in the open-source 3D printed Poppy Robotics project applied to education, at Inria Flowers Lab (Bordeaux, France)

Code: Poppy Education 4

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Job title: Engineer for pedagogical design and experimentation of educational activities in robotics
Experience: up to 8 years after engineering/university diploma
Duration: 12 to 24 months
Mission
Design, experiment and disseminate educational activities based on the Poppy robotic platform
Job description:

  • Analyze the educational needs of several populations of users (high-school students, university students, FafLab members, …)
  • Design pedagogical sequences and scenarios of activities targeted to different populations of students, based on visual programming and python programming tools
  • Initiate contacts with users for experimentation
  • Evaluate pedagogical activities in real contexts of use (in schools, universities and FabLabs)
  • Produce integrated polished multimedia documents embedding “ready to use” pedagogical content
  • Produce multimedia content to publicize educational uses of the platform
  • Participate to events to promote educational uses of the platform
    Candidate profile:
  • Experience in teaching computer science and technology
  • Experience in user-centered methodologies
  • Experience in python programming language (or other scripting languages)
  • Familiarity with Scratch like visual, drag-and-drop programming language
  • Interest in interdiciplinary collaborations (education, science, art, makers)
  • Creative thinking to design motivating learning scenarios
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