Tobias Schifferle


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  • Combining STEM Education and Equity for Greater Impact in Late K-6 Classrooms
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Schifferle, Tobias; Kollegger, Nina (2024)
    ITiCSE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2
    We present CYBATHLON @school, which aims to foster interest in STEM subjects among primary school students and promote empathy for people with disabilities. The initiative, in collaboration with various educational institutions, has developed three scalable modules that allow students to engage in interactive experiences, such as an interactive video, experimenting with prosthetic devices, and programming a mini wheelchair under the guidance of ETH students and ambassadors with a disability. The effectiveness is being assessed through an RCT, with preliminary results showing high levels of student, teacher and parent satisfaction.
  • CYBATHLON @school scale up inclusion – towards a new low cost, high scale STEM module approach
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Schifferle, Tobias (2024)
    This WIP Paper presents the CYBATHLON @school STEM initiative which aims to foster inclusion and accessibility topics among pupils of all age groups by combining them with Engineering and STEM topics. The project trains (predominantly female) Engineering students to conduct courses in schools while acting as role models to the pupils. Many modules build on the educational exoskeleton Flexo which allows for new experiences and is well accepted. However due to being a complex system, the workshops are expensive to conduct, maintain and do not scale well. This paper identifies important obstacles and presents ideas on how to complement the project with a new module which scales better and adapts to certain needs of schools while preserving the positive aspects of the project.
  • Enabling agile rapid product development in K12 classrooms by enhancing an educational exoskeleton
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Schifferle, Tobias; Kollegger, Nina (2021)
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series ~ Proceedings of 5th FabLearn Europe / MakeEd Conference 2021
    The Product Development Module of the CYBATHLON @school series brings rapid prototyping, hardware and software development to regular school lessons or project weeks, combines it with entrepreneurship and fosters inclusion of people with disabilities. Engineering students and persons with disabilities conduct the units. Pupils aged 12 to 18 team up in their virtual startup and identify day-to-day issues of a person with a paralyzed arm. They develop solutions to mitigate those challenges with the help an assistive technology, the educational exoskeleton Flexo. They use modern rapid prototyping technologies to iteratively develop a gripper for the Flexo, using special software-assisted laser cutting and 3D printing. A knowledge integrated software interface helps them to program it using Python. The teams present their grippers in a final competition. Preliminary feedback suggests that the module is well received.
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