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BALAM Educational Robotics in Guatemala Guatemala Population: ~18M (Country) ~4M (Metro) Area - 108,889 km2 Multicultural country Natural bridge between the Americas and with access to both seas (Atlantic & Pacific)

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Educational Robotics in Guatemala

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  • Population:

~18M (Country) ~4M (Metro)

  • Area - 108,889 km2
  • Multicultural country
  • Natural bridge between the Americas and with

access to both seas (Atlantic & Pacific)

  • Becoming a Tech Hub for the Americas
  • “The Land of the Eternal Spring”

Guatemala

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  • Born in 2,000 as a University
  • Started as FISICC (Engineering Faculty) - 40 years
  • 40,000+ students
  • One Central Campus and various regional
  • ffices
  • Consider the Tech University in Guatemala
  • Projects with EU (JELARE, ENLACE, ALFA III, H2020,

ERASMUS+) & USAID

Universidad Galileo

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FISICC

  • 5 Engineering Programs
  • 4 PhD Programs & 1 more pending
  • Various university agreements
  • TTO (Recently opened)

○ FREE Network - Eramus+ Project

  • FabLab in process (Help me!)
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BALAM

PHASE 1

LEARN

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Main Goal

Teach students and teachers about fundamentals in a virtual environment:

  • CAD
  • Robotics
  • Electronics
  • Coding
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Data Facts (1)

  • 2100+ participants

○ MOOC

  • 210+ educational institutions
  • 25% women participation
  • 5% teachers & 95% students
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BALAM

PHASE 2

CREATE

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Main Goal

Make students and teachers create something real with:

  • Robot chassis
  • Electronics (Sensors, actuators & BLE)
  • 3D Printers
  • Embedded platform
  • Coding
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Data Facts

  • Virtual Bootcamps Virtuales

(Facebook Live)

  • Bootcamps
  • Forum
  • Engineering students volunteered
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PHASE 3

COMPETE

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Future Works

  • Write a paper about this 4 year research work
  • SoA relating soft skills to Robotics

○ Do more research in this area!

  • Creating a low-cost educational robot platform
  • Central American Project in the next 2 years
  • Europe & American Project in the next 5 years
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  • Dr. Oscar Rodas

Universidad Galileo

  • scar@galileo.edu