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    Marina Umaschi Bers, PhD

    Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, KinderLab Robotics; Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development; Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department; Director, DevTech Research Group, Tufts University; Author, Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development: From Playpen to Playground (2012) and Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom (2007); Co-Author, "Gender Differences in Kindergarten's Robotics and Programming Achievement" (2012, International Journal of Technology and Design Education)

    Marina UmaschiBers, PhD