Volunteer Female Teachers Required for Training Sumo Robots

The Foundation for Educational Digital Development (FEDD) has applied for a federal

government grant to help fund free STEM training for women teachers in Robotics in 2018.

FEDD will design and deliver a robotics teaching program to women teachers, culminating

in a Sumo Robotics challenge at the 2018 Game Changer Awards.

As this will be funded by the Federal Government, the program will be free for teachers.

Should we be successful in securing the grant, we will be calling for volunteers to participate

in the program next year. If you would like to know more or register your early interest please

complete the Expression of Interest or email STEM@fedd.org.au. Numbers are limited so

get in quick.

About the grant The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship (WISE)

program supports the Australian Government’s commitment to increase awareness and participation

of girls and women in STEM and entrepreneurship education and careers, including in schools

through to university and to the research sector. Results of the grant will be announced in early 2018.

FEDD’s grant application Our objective is to increase participation of women in teach STEM activities, by showing them how to teach the principals of

mechatronics, electronics and computer science to their classes with confidence. The target for this grant is years 7-9 female

teachers who wish to improve their knowledge and skills teaching STEM.

The scope of the grant is 100 Western Australian teachers. If the program proves successful, and subject to obtaining further grant

funding, it will be rolled out to the other states and territories.

We will train and support the teachers in how to program robots for the Sumo Challenge so that they can train their students.

Teachers will be provided with three robots, lesson plans, worked coding examples, curriculum mapping, a simulator and

tutorials.

What are Sumo Robots Two robots compete in a head-to-head match following the basic system of traditional human sumo matches. Robots are

allowed no weapons, and are not allowed to flip each other. The sole purpose is a pushing match between the two robots to force

the other from the arena. To see Sumo Robots in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIYMAymGzdI

FEDD’s Sumo Robot challenge The inclusion of a competition is designed to enhance engagement by providing a public display of the effectiveness of their

teaching. Schools will run championships with the winner invited to attend the inter-school championship which will be held as

part of the Game Changer Awards.

Register your interest If you are a female teacher wanting to improve their STEM knowledge, please register your interest please complete

the Expression of Interest or email STEM@fedd.org.au. Numbers are limited so get in quick.

The Foundation for Education Digital Development Ltd. (ABN 57 608 797 744) is registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. 

Intra-school championships to decide the school champion team who be

invited to the annual Game Changer Awards

Teams are grouped into four conferences of sixteen teams

Knock-out competition with the winner of each conference going to the

FEDD Sumo Robot Competition Finals

Winning teams battle for the prize of 2018 FEDD Sumo Robot Gold Medal

winner