Rolando Osvaldo Esteves Barradas Coelho received his MSc in Computer Teaching from the University of Minho in 2015 and is now pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. Since 2015, he has worked at Colégio Paulo VI (Gondomar, Portugal) where he is a computer teacher, teaching programming and computer science to students in the first, second, and third cycles of primary and secondary education. Since 2019, he has been a collaborator in research projects and ongoing teacher training at the company MakeIt Pedagocical (Porto, Portugal). His research topics mainly include educational mobile robotics; computational thinking; game-based learning; and enhancing STEM.

José Alberto Lencastre is an associate professor of Educational Technology at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho, Portugal. He received a master’s in Educational Technology (2002), a PhD in Educational Technology (2009), and a postdoc in Educational Technology (2019). He has been a leader (WP, country, or project coordinator, etc.) in several European research projects financed by Erasmus Plus, FP7, Grundvig, and Leonardo Da Vinci innovation programmes. He is a researcher at the Research Centre on Education (CIEd) and Centro ALGORITMI (a research unit of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho at the campus of Azurém, Portugal). His research interests involve the design of innovative pedagogy with new technologies to enhance teaching and learning processes.

Salviano Pinto Soares holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aveiro in Portugal. He has been a lecturer and professor of Signal Processing at the UTAD since 1996 and is also a senior researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering (IEETA) of the University of Aveiro. Salviano has led 15 R&D industry projects funded by FCT in wireless applications, voice quality evaluation, and smart homes. He is also the author or co-author of over 100 scientific or technical papers, 10 book chapters, and one international patent. His main research interests include signal processing for the IoT, audio engineering, and knowledge fundamentals.

Antonio Valente graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in Portugal in 1994. In 1999, he earned his MS in Industrial Electronics from the University of Minho in Portugal. He obtained his PhD from the UTAD in 2003 while working in the field of microsystems for agriculture. He was the director of the engineering department from 2013 to 2017. Presently, he is an associate professor with Habilitation in the Department of Engineering at the UTAD. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering–Technology and Science (INESC TEC). He was chairman of ICARSC 2015 and the local organizer of Robótica 2015 in Vila Real, Portugal. He is the organizer of the Portuguese Micromouse Contest (an international robotics competition organized annually). His professional interests are in sensors, the IoT, microcontrollers, embedded systems, and robotics with applications focused on agriculture.