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Housed on the campus of Kent State University in the Moulton Hall Learning Technologies Center, the Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET) was founded in 1999 to provide a collegial network for university researchers and K-16 educators committed to studying the potential of technology to improve teaching and learning. At the center of RCET’s work is the AT&T Classroom which serves as a unique Pre-K-16 research laboratory to study the potential of educational technologies and also provides Pre-K-12 outreach and professional development in the community. Since its inception, STEM has been a central focus of RCET’s work both in the AT&T Classroom and P-16 initiatives. A primary focus of our work in STEM has been on engineering and the cross-curricular integration of the engineering design process to promote teaching and learning for STEM. Examples of teachers and students integrating engineering and robotics can be viewed at our AT&T Classroom blog: []

Listed below are some beginning readings on engineering at the elementary level. You can access addtional classroom resources for integrating engineering design and robotics under the "Engineering Resourcs" side tab of this wiki.

**Engineering is Elementary: An Engineering and Technology Curriculum for Children**

**Engineering is Elementary**

**Precursors to Elementary Engineering (PET)**