LARAMIE, Wyo., Aug. 10 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:

Fifty-two K-12 teachers -- from as far away as Senegal -- and a dozen high school students from nine states across the country attended theUniversity of Wyoming Engineering Summer Program for Teachers (ESP4T) July 20-24.

ESP4T is a hands-on workshop that gives teachers the tools to implement physical computing lessons into their curricula, including programming lessons in PictoBlox, C++, Scratch and Python, which were applied to the ever-popular Arduino and Raspberry Pi robotics units MechDogs, TonyBoT, SpiderPi and CoDrone.

The workshop was made possible by Tier-1 funding provided by the UW College of Engineering and Physical Sciences and was orchest...