CRR Program for Home

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Welcome to CRRAFT!

CRRAFT stands for Culturally Relevant Robotics A Family & Teacher Partnership

The partnership includes Knox County Schools, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Muse Knoxville, and administrators, teachers, educational assistants and families from your child’s school.

We are working together to help preschoolers learn about computer science in a culturally relevant way. That means your child will have a chance to use kid-friendly computing tools (like robots!) to do activities that connect to their cultural, community, and family experiences. We hope these activities will help you & your child see that computer science is for everyone!

We hope you’ll join us by trying out some activities at home with your child & family.

What to Expect

There are four phases of activities that you can do at home with your family to support your child’s computer science learning. This website will help you know what to expect and how to try these activities at home. Some activities use things you can easily find around the house and others require certain tools. Check with your school or local library to see if they have some of these resources available.

Located in Knoxville, TN? Visit Muse Knoxville to check out resources from the Tech-to-Go library to help you do the activities. This library was created by CRRAFT and Muse Knoxville.

The Big So What?

Research shows that young children benefit from learning how technology works. Kid-friendly activities help children understand the powerful ideas about computer science.

Learning about computer science prepares children to be users and creators of technology. Computer science is making a big impact on our daily lives, industries (like technology, health care, government, etc.), and society!

Your child will need computer science. AND computer science needs more diverse voices to help in reducing racial/ethnic and gender inequalities. Women and Black and Latinx individuals have been excluded from computer science. Sense of belonging in computing starts at an early age!