Learning by Making for STEM Success

Abstract

Sonoma State University's Learning by Making program, funded by the US Department of Education's Investing in Innovation program, has created a one-year course that is now approved as a college preparatory Science Laboratory course (Area D) by the UC/CSU Doorways process. An innovative hardware platform has been developed that has been optimized for use by students in high needs rural communities with low Internet bandwidth. All programming is done in the Logo language that supports experimental design, use of a variety of environmental and physical sensors, and analysis of the resulting data.