Toy Adaptation in Undergraduate Education and Outreach: An Initial Examination into Participant Experience and Perceptions

Abstract

Service learning is a powerful educational method to deliver engineering curricula while benefiting student retention, personal development, and community connections. Furthermore, positive societal impact is highly important to underrepresented students in career selection and classes or projects with clear engineering-service components commonly attract a higher percentage of students from underrepresented groups. In this work-in-progress, we examine our initial efforts in implementing toy adaptation to enhance engineering education and to serve our broader community.