In July 2015 I received $10,000 from the Edson Entrepreneurship Grant at ASU to carry out a proposal to build programmable robots for kids and to provide educational support for the teachers who work with those kids to design interdisciplinary projects that include the arts and computational thinking. I put together an interdisciplinary team that includes a programmer, a music education doctoral student with a background in e-textiles, and robot designer with a PhD in physics. In an attempt to extend the reach of the Edson grant, our team won a competition for $10,000 in services from Atom: Innovation + Product Development. With those services they are going to help us develop our robot prototype. In July 2016 our team received $5,000 dollars more from the Edson Entrepreneurship Grant to continue our project.
GrooveBots
This is a video of one of our prototypes that we have used to pitch the idea.