Aasiyah Adnan
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Aasiyah Adnan is an emerging education researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics education, gender equity, and K-12 STEM outreach. Her scholarship focuses on understanding how hands-on engineering experiences — particularly soft robotics activities — shape young students' perceptions of robots and engineering as a field. A central thread running through her research is the persistent gender gap in traditional engineering disciplines such as mechanical and electrical engineering, and the role that K-12 robotics participation plays in either perpetuating or disrupting that disparity. Adnan's most cited work, "Using Drawings to Understand Impacts of Soft Robotics Activity on Elementary Age Students' Perceptions of Robots" (2022, 12 citations), employs an innovative qualitative methodology — student drawings — to capture attitudinal shifts among young learners, with particular attention to female students. Her follow-up work in progress (2024, 6 citations) continues this trajectory by examining how targeted soft robotics projects can broaden female students' identification with engineering. Though early in her career, Adnan's research offers meaningful contributions to broadening participation in STEM, providing educators and policymakers with evidence-based strategies to create more inclusive pathways into engineering for underrepresented groups.
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