Section: Dissemination

Popularization

Duties

D. Roy is member of the Class'code team (Inria is member of the consortium of this project) https://pixees.fr/classcode/accueil/. Class'code is a blended formation for teachers and animators who aim to initate young people to computer science and robotics. D. Roy has in charge the robotics module of the project.

D. Roy is adviser of the organization of computer science exhibition in "Palais de la découverte" which will begin on 2018 March. He helps for robotics part.

D. Roy is member of the team "Education en Scène" which organize educational activities with robotics in Bordeaux Digital City.

D. Roy is member of the scientific committee of "Didapro Didastic" Conference which will be held in Lausanne (Switzer on 2018 February.

D. Roy is member of the Robocup Junior French committee, an international robotics challenge http://rcj.robocup.org/.

D. Roy is member of the scientific committee of "Ludovia CH" Conference which will be held in Yverdon (Switzerland) on 2018 March.

D. Roy is project leader of Thymio Simulator for Classcode project. Specifications and coordination of work.

D. Roy is project leader of Thymio Scratch and Thymio Snap! development, with D. Sherman. Inria, EPFL and Mobsya collaboration.

PY. Oudeyer continued to be the PI of the Poppy Education project.

Online content

• Stephanie Noirpoudre. Atelier Poppy Ergo Jr au CERN. Description and feedback of a workshop on the construction and programming of the robotic arm Poppy Ergo Jr as part of the Coding Pi Science Event. [83]

• Stephanie Noirpoudre. Robotic workshop at CERN. Description and feedback of a workshop on the construction and programming of the robotic arm Poppy Ergo Jr as part of the Coding Pi Science Event. [84]

• Stephanie Noirpoudre, Kelian Schindowsky. Poppy Education présent à la journée EIDOS 64 : Le forum des pratiques numériques pour l'éducation. Description and feedback of the 9th edition of the EIDOS64 day (the digital practice forum for education). [85]

• Sylvain Soulard, Kelian Schindowsky. Description of activity "Modeling of the Port of Rotterdam" using the robot arm Poppy Ergo Jr and created by Sylvain Soulard, middle school teacher in technology. He started the problem: how to optimize and secure the transport of containers in a commercial port? [88]

• Kelian Schindowsky. Un projet étudiant : des mains pour Poppy Torso ! Utilisation de la plateforme Poppy pour un projet étudiant. A use of the Poppy platform for a student project: 4 Poppy Torso robots modified by the students of the Bordeaux-Talence campus clashed in the large amphitheater. A competition of a new kind including free figures and imposed figures. [87]

• Kelian Schindowsky. Des roues pour le robot Poppy Torso : New Bachelor of Technology students from ENSAM (Talence) worked on the Poppy Torso robot, the goal this time was to equip it with a mobile platform. [86]

Teaching and Education

Poppy Education

• January 2017, meeting with partner teachers

• March 2017, meeting with partner teachers

• March 2017, training day with new teachers partners - Building and programming the robot Poppy Ergo Jr

• May 2017, meeting with partner teachers

• September 2017, meeting with partner teachers

• June 2017, training day with workers from Cap'Metier and Cultures éléctroniques (for scientific mediation purpose) to initiate to robotic - Building and programming the robot Poppy Ergo Jr

Inirobot

• May 2017, Plan national de formation organised by La main à la pâte (Paris): D. ROY - Train future trainers to initobot curriculum

• April 2017, Training days organized by Main à la pâte for National Education (CEA Saclay): T. Desprez, S. Noiropudre, D. Roy, Théo Segonds - Train a group of teachers to inirobot

Talks and Hands-on

KidBreath

• Ma Thèse en 180 secondes, March 2017, Bordeaux, France, A. Delmas (oral presentation),

• La nuit européenne des chercheurs, September 2017, Bordeaux, France, A. Delmas (oral presentation).

Poppy Education

• January 2017, Eidos64 event - Le forum des pratiques numériques pour l'éducation (Lons): S. Noirpoudre, K. Schindowsky - Talk to present Poppy Education

• Janvier 2017, Visit organized by Le Conseil Départemental des Jeunes (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest): S. Noirpoudre - Programming workshops (for middle school students) to initiate in programmation with Poppy Ergo Jr robot

• January 2017, Robotics training day organised by Maison pour la Science (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest): S. Noirpoudre, T. Desprez - Programming workshop (for futur trainers) to initiatie in programmation with Poppy Ergo Jr robot

• January 2017, R2T2 AmeriCarabean (island of Martinique) : D. Roy - Co-organization with EPFL and ESPE of Martinique - International event (Mexico, Quebec, Guyane, Sainte Lucie) about robotics for education http://www.reseau-espe.fr/actualites/espe-de-martinique-le-defi-r2t2-americaraibe-ete-releve

• March 2017, Education exhibition Eduspot (Paris): S. Noirpoudre - Exhibition stand to present the robotic platform Poppy and the use in Education

• March 2017, Le printemps de la mixité event (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest): S. Noirpoudre - Robotics workshops (for high school students) to initiate in programmation with Poppy Ergo Jr robot

• April 2017, Training days organized by Main à la pâte for National Education (CEA Saclay): T. Desprez, S. Noiropudre, D. Roy, Théo Segonds - Train a group of teachers to robotics and programmation with Poppy Ergo Jr robot

• May 2017, Plan national de formation organised by La main à la pâte (Paris): S. Noirpoudre - Talk to present Poppy Education project and Poppy Ergo Jr

• May 2017, Innorobo (Paris): S. Noirpoudre, K. Schindowsky, T. Segonds, D. Roy: Exhibition stand to present the robotics platform Poppy and the use in Education

• May 2017, Innorobo Robotics and Education Forum (Paris): S. Noirpoudre - Talk to present Poppy Education and the robot Poppy Ergo Jr

• May 2017, Robot makers'day (Talence): K. Schindowsky - Exhibition stand to present Poppy Education and Poppy robots

• May 2017, RII Santiago (Santiago de Chile, Chile): T. Segonds - Exhibition stand to present Poppy Education and Poppy robots - Event organized by Inria Chile

• May 2017, Bordeaux Geek Festival (Bordeaux): K. Schindowsky - Workshops to initiate in programming

• May 2017, PY. Oudeyer gave an invited presentation on "Robotics and cognitive sciences" at Festival Filosofia, St. Emilion, France

• June 2017, Internships: observation Sequence for Grade 3 Students (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest - Welcomed two students from middle-school during a week to discover the working environment and to introduce them to robotics

• June 2017, Robotics workshop for a primary class (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest): S. Noirpoudre, T. Desprez - Poppy Education and inirobot workshops

• June 2017, EIAH : Environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain (Strasbourg): S. Noirpoudre, T. Desprez - Talk to present the article “Poppy Education : un dispositif robotique open source pour l'enseignement de l'informatique et de la robotique”

• June 2017, EIAH : Environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain (Strasbourg): T. Desprez, S. Noirpoudre - Exhibition stand to present the robotics platform Poppy and the use in Education

• June 2017, Rencontre avenir numérique alsace (strasbourg): S. Noirpoudre - Talk in videoconference to present Poppy Education and the robot Poppy Ergo Jr

• June 2017, Playback of "Poppy entre dans la danse" project (Le Cuvier, Artigues-près-Bordeaux): T. Deprez, T. Segonds - Technical assistance of a secondary school performance melting danse and robotics

• July 2017, Symposium Education and Robotics (Bordeaux): D. Roy (coordinator) and Flowers Team Members - Organization of the colloquium

• July 2017, Symposium Education and Robotics (Bordeaux): S. Noirpoudre - Talk to present Poppy Education project

• July 2017, Symposium Education and Robotics (Bordeaux): PY. Oudeyer - Talk to present Flowers educational robotics projects

• July 2017, Symposium Education and Robotics (Bordeaux): S. Noirpoudre - Exhibition stand to present the robotics platform Poppy and the use in Education

• July 2017, 10th International Scratch conference (Bordeaux): D. Roy - Member of the Scratch organizing commitee, member of the scientific committee - the conference organization begun on december 2017

• July 2017, 10th International Scratch conference (Bordeaux): T. Segonds - Talk to present Poppy Education project

• July 2017, 10th International Scratch conference (Bordeaux): S. Noirpoudre - Exhibition stand to present the robotics platform Poppy and the use in Education

• August 2017, Fab13 Fabricating Society Conference (Santiago de Chile, Chile): T. Segonds - Talk on Poppy Education - Two days workshop on using and modifing Poppy robots

• August 2017, Ludovia Conference (Ax-Les-Thermes): D. Roy - PArtnership with Region Nouvelle Aquitaine and Académie of Bordeaux for an exhibition stand with Poppy Education - Exhibitions, demos, talks

• October 2017, Coding Pi Science Days (CERN and Hepia engineering school at Geneva): T. Segonds, T. Desprez - Talk to present the robotics platform Poppy and the use in Education - Three days robotics workshops on building and programming a Poppy Ergo Jr robot

• October 2017, Fête de la science (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest): D. Roy - special event with a robotics workshop and several demos at Inria Center, with members of staff of Bordeaux Metropole and polotical actors

• October 2017, Fête de la science (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest): T. Segonds, T. Desprez - 8 programming workshop in 2 days (with middle school students) using Snap! and the robot Poppy Ergo Jr

• November 2017, JNRR (National Days of Robotics Reseach, Biarritz): D. Roy (moderator), P.-Y. Oudeyer (speaker) - Talk on Educational Robotics -

• December 2017, Digital Tech Rennes (Rennes): T. Segonds, B. Busch - Talk on Poppy Education - Poppy Ergo Jr programming workshop

• December 2017, Aperobot Bordeaux (Bordeaux): T. Segonds - Poppy Ergo Jr programming workshop

• December 2017, Internships: observation Sequence for Grade 3 Students (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest) - Welcomed three students from middle-school during a week to discover the working environment and to introduce them to robotics

Other

Members of the Flowers team participated to many interviews and documentaries for the press, the radio and television.

Popularizing inside Inria

• March 2017, training day with Inria workers from scientific mediation - Building and programming the robot Poppy Ergo Jr

• October 2017, DevDays (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest): D. Caselli - Presentation of the hotspot tool used in Poppy Ergo Jr robot

• December 2017, Séminaire de la médiation Inria (CNAM, Paris): T. Segonds, S. Noirpoudre, D. Roy - Poppy Ergo Jr programming workshop for people involving in scientific outreach of Inria

Creation of Material for Popularization

As part of the Poppy Education project, thanks the robotic platform Poppy we created pedagogical kits open-source and low cost for teaching computer science and robotics. It is designed to help young people to take ownership with concepts and technologies of the digital world.

The Pedagogical kits includes robots and pedagogical resources. They have been co-created directly with users (mainly high schools teachers) and evaluated in real life by experiments in classrooms [81].

The activities were designed with the visual programming language Snap! (Scratch like) and Python, but some are in Java / Processing (thanks the robot API you can use the language of your choice).

Most activities are using the robot Poppy Ergo Jr, but some use Poppy Torso (mostly in higher school because of its cost) and Poppy Humanoid (in kinder-garden for dance projects) :

• The Poppy Ergo Jr robot is a small and low cost 6-degree-of-freedom robot arm. It consists of simple shapes which can be easily 3D printed. It has several 3D printed tools extending its capabilities (there are currently the lampshade, the gripper and a pen holder but you can design new ones). They are assembled via rivets which can be removed and added very quickly with the OLLO tool. Each motor has LEDs on (8 different color can be activated). The electronic card (raspberry Pi) is visible next to the robot, that allow to manipulate, and plug extra sensors.

• The Poppy Torso robot is an open-source humanoid robot torso which can be installed easily on tabletops. More affordable than the robot Poppy Humanoid, it is an ideal medium to learn science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

We continued to improve the robots functionalities and you can see below the resources we created :

• A website have been created to present the project and to share all resources and activities.

  https://www.poppy-education.org/

• To complete the pedagogical booklet [48] that provides guided activities and small challenges to become familiar with Poppy Ergo Jr robot and the Programming language Snap! (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2jV8VX-lQHwTUxXZjF3OGxHVGM/view) we provided a list of Education projects. Educational projects have been written for each activity carried out and tested in class. So each projects have its own web page including resources allowing any other teacher to carry out the activity (description, pedagogical sheet, photos / videos, pupil's sheet, teacher's sheet with correction etc.). Their is now 32 activities documented available on Poppy Education website.

  You can see the activities on this links (in french):

  • Introduction to Ergo Jr and Snap! :

    https://www.poppy-education.org/activites/initiation-ergo-jr-et-snap

  • Ergo Jr and Python tutorials :

    https://www.poppy-education.org/activites/tuto-python-robot-ergojr

  • High-school levels :

    www.poppy-education.org/activites/activites-lycee

  • Middle-school level :

    www.poppy-education.org/activites/activites-college

  • Primary Schools level :

    https://www.poppy-education.org/activites/activites-primaire/

  • Demonstrations (just videos to show the possibilities) :

    https://www.poppy-education.org/activites/demos/

• We continued to improve the documentation of the robotic platform Poppy (https://docs.poppy-project.org/en/) and the documentation has been translated into French (https://docs.poppy-project.org/fr/.

• A FAQ have been written with the most frequents questions to help users: https://www.poppy-education.org/aide/

Innovation and transfer

• Since 1 september 2017 until february 2019, PerPoppy and Poppy Station Projects : D. Roy, P.-Y. Oudeyer. These projects aim to perpetuate the Poppy robot ecosystem by creating an external structure from outside Inria, with various partners. After the Poppy Robot Project, the Poppy Education Project is ending and Inria doesn't

  Many exchanges have already taken place with potential partners such as the EPFL, the ENSAM network, the «Ligue de l’Enseignement», Génération Robots, the French Institute of Education, several academies, the direction of digital education of the Ministry of Education, ... PerPoppy is the project which is building the new structure, and Poppy Station is the name of the new structure. Poppy Station, which will include Poppy robot ecosystem (hardware, software, community) from the beginning, will be a place of excellence to build future educational robots and to design pedagogical activities to teach computer science, robotics and Artificial Intelligence.