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Knowledge Engineering and Robotics Lab
| Jan 2025 - Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin was welcomed by the Intelligent Systems Laboratory team at Neapolis University Pafos in Cyprus. Pictured in the photo (from left to right) are Daniel, Dr. Avgousta Kyriakidou Zacharoudiou, Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin, and Dr. Lefteris Zacharioudakis. |
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| Jan 2025 - Partnered with Silver Foundation Magbit Canada a 10-session workshop ended. The final competition and ceremony took place at the faculty of Engineering. A group photo of the participants and team. |
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| Jan 2025 - Dr. Rina Zviel-Girshin visits a new Campus of Cyprus University of Technology (ΤΕΠΑΚ) at Paphos. Dr. Christos Rodosthenous, as IT Officer, welcomes her at a new campus. |  |
Jan 2025 - Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin visits Intelligent Systems Laboratory Neapolis University Pafos . At the photo Rina Zviel Girshin with Dr. Avgousta Kyriakidou Zacharoudiou.
Dec 2024 - A new book chapter named "Making to engineering: toward a personalized engineering robotics playground" published in the book Intelligent Educational Robots.
| Nov 2024 - Dr. Rina Zviel-Girshin visit to Sergei Gamer's Cognitive Robotics Lab at the Technion Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. |  |
| Oct-Jan 2024 - Partnered with Silver Foundation Magbit Canada a 10-session workshop, "Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems," to students at Ben Yakir Youth Village started at Knowledge Engineering and Robotics Lab. This workshop provids an introduction to key concepts in robotics and autonomous systems. |
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| 16 Oct 2024 - a new Cost Action named GOBLIN started at Brussels with Rina Zviel-Girshin as Management Committee (MC) member from Israel. CA23147 - Global Network on Large-Scale, Cross-domain and Multilingual Open Knowledge Graphs (GOBLIN). Dr. Rina Zviel-Girshin and Dr. Ganit Richter MCs from Israel. |  |
| 18-23 Aug 2024 - Science Days at Knowledge Engineering and Robotics Lab. More than 90 children aged 7-12 visited the Lab for different STEM activities. |  |
Jun 2024 - Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin presented a new research "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Usage of AI Tools in Programming Education" at CHAIS2024 conference.
Jun 2024 - Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin and Dr. Yuval Dror from podcast "Ösim Technology".
| March 2024 - Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Prof. Freddy Gabai. Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin receives "2023 Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award". |  |
Feb 2024 - Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin visited EAR Early Age Robotics Program at Misgav school to talk with mentors (students of grade 5-6).
Jan 2024 Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin visited EAR Early Age Robotics Program at Misgav school at Emek Hefer. EAR program started at Oct 2023 at several grade A and grade B classes.
Jan 2024 a new 8 weeks workshop "Mobile application development" started at Ben Yakir Youth Village. A new implementation of the project. This time our instructors came to the village.
5-9 Sep 2023 - EFAP COST Action closing event took place at TABAKALERA museum, Spain. WG3 group members met to discuss issues related to the final report.
21-25 Aug 2023 - A Science days week. The doors of the Knowledge Engineering and Robotics Lab re-opened for children. Several groups of children aged 7 to 12 participated at different activities.
Aug 2023 -SLaTE 2023- 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education- 18-20 August, 2023- Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland. Rina Zviel Girshin with Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Ussher Assistant Professor in Irish Speech and Language Technology, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences,Trinity College Dublin.
Mar- May 2023 - Robotics Junior College - 8 meetings workshop - "Mobile Application Development" for “Ben Yakir" Youth Village.
Prof Gilad Zukerman Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Australia visited the Lab.
At the photo Prof. Aviad Kleinberg, Presedent of Ruppin Academic Center, Prof Gilad Zukerman and Dr. Rina Zviel-Girshin.
23 Jan 2023 - Nehemia Rubbin Robotics Program - "Ben Yakir" Youth Village - the final ceremony.
Oct 2022 - Robotics Junior College - 10 meetings workshop -"Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems" for “Ben Yakir" Youth Village
Jun 2022 - KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Conference KM2022 - Best Research Idea Award for "A methodology for creating user-generated educational materials via crowdsourced resource gathering"
A new book, called "Sport Engineering 4th Age Exercising with Dialog Based AI", Second Edition, a draft can be downloaded.
Apr 2022 - members of "AliceCode " visit Ruppin Academic Center. Rina Zviel-Girshin gives several lectures about "Robotics and Automation" to the guests.
Feb 2022, Guest Speaker, Ruppin Academic Center Excellence Unit Workshop. Invited talk “Integration of quizzes (Active learning) in Programming courses lectures -when, where and how?”. The presentation in hebrew can be found online.
Dec 2021 an article Zviel Girshin, R. & Gajek, E.(2021).Blessing and curse of crowdsourcing among educational experts - a study of teachers’ willingness to contribute as a crowd. Journal of Language and Cultural Education, 9(3) 1-11. https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2021-0016
Dec 2021 Guest Speaker at LLCE 2021 conference online. Invited talk “Integrating robots into language education”.
Oct 2021 article Zviel-Girshin, R., & Rosenberg, N. (2021). How to Enhance Creativity and Inquiry-Based Science Education in Early Childhood-Robotic Moon Settlement Project. Creative Education, 12(11), 2485-2504.
Sep 2021 online presentation of “Gamifying the path to corpus-based pedagogical dictionaries” at ELEX2021 conference.
Aug 2021 presentation of “Developing pedagogically appropriate language corpora through crowdsourcingand gamification” at EUROCALL2021 conference online.
July 2021 presentation of “Autonomous educational software for learning Hebrew with gamification and crowdsourcing” at Knowledge Management KM2021 Conference.
Apr 2021- Robotics Junior College via ZOOM - COVID- 4 meetings workshop called "Autonomous Systems" “Ben Yakir" Youth Village. Instructors are at home; students are at the Youth Village. M-Bot Robotic kits are used (an advanced version). Advanced course has more programming assignments and topics.
Feb 2021- Robotics Junior College via ZOOM - COVID- 8 meetings second workshop called "Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems" for Ben Yakir" Youth Village students via ZOOM. Instructors are at home, students are at the“Ben Yakir" Youth Village. Some details and challenges of teaching robotics via ZOOM are presented online (in Hebrew).
Nov 2020 – Robotics Junior College - COVID-19 - A NOVEL APPROACH - 8 meetings workshop called "Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems" for “Ben Yakir" “Ben Yakir" Youth Village students via ZOOM. M-Bot Robotic kits are used.
March 2020– Robotics Junior College - 8 meetings workshop called "Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems" for high school students from Umm al-Fahm starts.
Feb-March 2020 - Kaunus University, Lithuania. Rina Zviel-Girshin teaching a PBL workshop called "Creativity in Software Engineering and Gamificatin principles".
Feb 2020 -The 8th Kinneret Conference on Software Engineering, Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin, a talk about "Enhencing Engineer's Skills via Project Based Learning in an 'Engineering Skills and Thinking' course".
Feb 2020 presentation of Robotics and Technology Education in Kindergarten and Primary schools project to Rami Bornshtein from the Ministry of Education.
A visit to "Sadot" school, " Harel" school and "Harel" kindergarten.
Pesentation of the reasearch results.
A brief talk about the paper called Robotics as a Tool to Enhance Technological Thinking in Early Childhood published at Journal of Science Education and Technology.
28 Jan 2020 - Robotics Junior College - a final competition for 13 meetings workshop called called "Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems" for “Ben Yakir" Youth Village. This year 4 different projects were presented.Summary movie2020
26 Jan 2020 - Robotics Junior Clege - a final competition for 13 meetings workshop called "Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems" for “TOM" Youth Village. The summary of the סדנת רובוטיקה כפר תום 2020:
20-21 Jan 2020 - Multi3Gen Cost Action annual meeting, University of Copenhagen
Talk "Wonderfull world of Robotics and STEM". Special thanks to Eman, who translated the talk and to Sara Tzoor, who kindly agreeded to demonstrate different robots from the Lab.
Presentation "STEMpathy - what can be done. Engineering students for Youth Villages".
Nov 2019 - Coimbra portugal - Universidade de Coimbra- EnetCollect WG1 workshop. Program available at https://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/wg1-dec19.
Presentation about results of the crowdsourcing experiments Using crowdsourcing for corpus filtering.
EnetCollect WG3/WG4 Meeting, 27-29 November 2019
Presentation "Educational Software for Learning Learning Hebrew with Gamification and Crowdsourcing".
Poster and live demo presentation - Rina Zviel Girshin and Alex Raskin.
Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin enetCollect WG2/WG5 annual meeting.
Presentation "Implicit crowdsourcing Research and informed consent - a problem, an opportunity or both?"
Nov 2019– Robotics Junior College - 13 meetings workshop called "Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems" for TOM" Youth Village students started.
OCT 2019– Robotics Junior College - 13 meetings workshop called "Introduction to Robotics and Autonomous Systems" for “Ben Yakir" Youth Village students started.
EFAP - European Forum for Advanced Practices 3 days meeting at Madrid.
Implementation Work Group discussions of the Advanced practices.
Sep 2019 – A forth successfull year of Robotics and Technology Education in Kindergarten and Primary schools project starts at Emek HEFER regional council. this year 5 kindergartens and 5 schools will take part at the project. Dr. Rina Zviel-Girshin is an academic advisor, PI and co-creator of the program. This year we will continue to investigate the project and try to promote robotics and technology education in early childhood.
Sep 2019
Sep 2019
Sep 2019 - ICSTEM2019 Conference London. "Educational Robotics in early childhood" presentation.
AUG 2019
Once again the doors of the Knowledge Engineering and Robotics Lab were opened for children. Several groups of children - ages 7 till 12.
Aug 2019
During the visit we investigated "User model in a gamified, intelligent and crowdsourced language learning environment". Several projects were prsented. One of the projects is "Gamified educational software for learning Hebrew with crowdsourcing techniques".
July 2019
Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin and Prof. Yiannis Demiris the Head of the Personal Robotics Laboratory.
Jul 2019 -World Congress of Engineering WCE2019- a presentation "REX Paradigm for Robotic Exper Systems"
June 2019
June 2019
A third year of the "Robotics and Technology education in Kindergarten and Primary schools" project successfully ends at Emek HEFER regional council.
an article can be found at http://www.tappoahpayis.org.il/מתוך-ממצאי-מחקר-על-תלמידי-עמק-חפר-בנות/
16-23 June 2019 - Robotics week at Tapuah Pais Emek hefer with different projects in the area of " Robotics at the Moon".
Apr 2019 EFAP "European Forum for Advanced Practices" first meeting at Brussles.
May 2019
Robotics Junior College
A final competition of the workshop "An Introduction to Robotics" for “BEN YAKIR" Youth Village. The workshop Movie
March 2019 – Robotics Junior College - a 7 meetings workshop "An Introduction to Robotics" for “Ben Yakir" Youth Village students started.
March 2019
Team members:
Tanara Zingano Kuhn (Centre for General and Applied Linguistics (CELGA-ILTEC), University of Coimbra),
Peter Dekker(Dutch Language Institute),
Branislava Šandrih (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Serbia)
Rina Zviel-Girshin (Ruppin Academic Center, Israel)
Feb 2019
Feb 2019
The Jewish Agency for Israel members and Chairman Isaac 'Bougie' Herzog visit Ruppin Academic Center and Visit the Robotics Lab. An introduction talk about educational robotics and lab activities was given. Students and trainees presented their robots.
Feb 2019 "Excellence in teaching reward" Ruppin.
Feb 2019
a "3d Printing" workshop took place at the lab. Some of the results are presented at the picture.
Feb 2019 - The 7th Kinneret Conference on Software Engineering, a talk "Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence as Smart Resource Gathering Tool for SE Course".
Feb 2019
Robotics Junior College.
The president of Ruppin Academic Center Prof. Galia Sabar, members of silver family (Deby Silver), representatives of "Ben Yakir" Youth village and the team members. A final competition of the workshop "Robotics, 3D Pprinting and Arduino" for “BEN YAKIR" Youth Village. A Workshop movie
Feb 2019
A participation in "Internet of Things for Furniture in Smart Habitats for Avanced Age" training school at Tallin University, Estonya. Building a smart chair that measures ECG, temperature and more. The chair analyses the data, sends the data to the doctor and also sends different advises to the end user (a patient).
Feb 2019
